!rant
How many of you have Linux as their sole OS?

Not me

Main OS is Arch linux. Not sole. If I had a choice I would only use Linux but at work I'm required to use Windows and occasionally macOS.

I want to completely migrate, but I just don't have Wifi, and can't get the alternative programs/wine.

I wish, but one of my passions is audio production which, frankly, sucks in linux.

@ChappIO
I've been down that road.
Lmms sucks.

@Atari yea and even if it was any good, not a single decent plugin out there

@ChappIO
Couldn't even get sf2's to work.

Private: linux
Work: Windows

I still have a Windows partition for gaming on my desktop, the rest is Linux.
Maybe I'll try switching completely when Win7 support ends, until then Wine may be even better than today.

one and only linux mint, steam has lots of games, cinnamon feels like almost windows ui, and you know the dev stuff

Hello

I have linux as my soul OS :p

@Atari LMMS sucks yeah, have you ever looked into Ardour?

Me definitely. I said goodbye to windows about seven years ago (I was 15 back then, 21 (very soon to be 22) now. It was a good decision in my case =)

I do, my laptop did last five minutes with Windows. However I may have to use it to develop on Xamarin, and OsX for iOS support

I have Windows on my Main Tower / Gaming Tower.

And Linux on my GoTo Device. ;D

@darksideplease hello

Linux ftw

Ubuntu GNOME solely. Ditched Windows months ago and not planning on going back. Might make a switch to Fedora and perhaps afterwards to Manjaro and then Arch when I think I'm ready for it.

Arch with KDE. Love it. I have Win10 in a qemu/KVM setup for the odd program I use. I've sacrificed a game here or there. But I have less issues than other co-workers running Windows, so pretty happy!

Yes, though the rest of my shoe runs on Windows, so it's still not great.

Not me, it's a mix of FreeBSD and Linux so it's all open source Unix at least.

Arch with i3-gaps here.
Say hi to my beautiful desktop : https://github.com/CSaratakij/...

Plain Mainstream Ubuntu here
stable
beautiful
and never have to switch off
downside is
one the classes I took in my third year (Operating Systems)
required our assignments to implemented in windows (multithreading)
so I spent my time typing a windows all in linux. then when I had a semi final version
send it to my friends laptop to compile and run 😅
tried using a cross compiler
but it wouldnt run properly.

No dev should have a sole OS. If I had a Mac, I'd use Mac, Linux and Windows.

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@-tux what's the point of having a car if you're not gonna drive it
donate that shit to charity

Here here. Linux all the way. I don't even jump distros.

I also refused jobs where I had to write code on Windows. If I had to code there, because they made me an offer I couldn't refuse, I used a VM inside Linux.

You could mostly do anything on a Mac terminal these days with brew, if you get stuck in a job which demands Apple, although I haven't seen that.

So I demand my working environment and they can't refuse since they need people with my set of skills and also their servers run on Linux. And I haven't seen a server admin use it better than a programmer. So you help out in that area as a well.

Learn Linux. Just pick a distro and dive in, you will never look back again.

Linux both at work and personal. Linux gives you the kind of freedom the way you would prefer a manual car when you love cars. If the latest apps are more well supported in Linux, there is almost no reason to go to other distros.

@linuxxx I have, it's just as bad in my opinion. There's no supported workflow or platform (plugin) support.

I'm sure that if you go the additional miles linux can be usable but it's hard enough already.

@ChappIO Fair enough! I'd like to get into music production some day and I'm just fucking highly against closed software so yeah....

@linuxxx I know, while I do prefer to work and with free software I just realize it's really hard to make a decent living from just free software policies in some areas. If there's a decent free alternative to something I use it. But when it's near unusable there's no use motivating the creators of that software using it.

It's sad because there's such a big battle between all the DAWs on Mac and Windows so in my opinion, porting one of them to support linux as well would score major points over the other ones. But we've nagged Ableton, Image Line and Pro Tools enough but found no positive reactions

@ChappIO You're right and I fucking hate that :'(

@linuxxx sowwy :(

@linuxxx I mean if you want to do recording and mixing with ardour, you'd probably get a long way.

But no synthesis or proper virtual instruments

@ChappIO Oh for the mixing etc Mixxx still works very nice for me but yeah the since and bass stuffs is important since I'd produce (raw) hardstyle 😄

@linuxxx yea, good luck with that one

Linux all the way. Only OS on both my work and personal laptop :p

Linux at home/work.
MacBook for work.

Not as a sole OS, but I have it as the only OS on my Laptop.