@n3wjack you are assuming I only have one laptop.

Currently Linux, Linux, Windows :)

@n3wjack main laptop is macOS (I’m contract/freelance dev), my other main laptop for personal projects is Linux, and I keep a Win10 laptop going, “just in case”. Which mostly consists of booting it up once a week, applying updates, then shutting it down ;) )

@n3wjack All of the above.

@n3wjack Lol. I use windows for paperwork, Linux for development, and a Mac at home. Which I use most depends on my schedule.

@n3wjack You DO realize MacOS is unix, yes?

@n3wjack Gah, hit windows by accident while scrolling. It's really Linux.

@n3wjack a little annoying that android/chromeos isn't a contender here. I do have a desktop computer but I rarely use it for fediverse stuff.

@n3wjack It's a split for me - my monitors are connected to a Windows PC, partly out of familiarity, but largely for software like Office, Altium & Solidworks... that said, I virtually always have one or more SSH connections to a more powerful Linux system, where nearly *all* the rest of my activities are carried out.

@n3wjack This won’t tell you “how the OS spread is on the fedi,” just the OS spread among the people who see this post and choose to respond. But I wonder if there is some kind of analytics or a stats site that will give you that info.

@n3wjack i've got a linux laptop that i barely use, and i use windows for work, but for my next computer, i'm thinking about getting a mac, since that feels very geared towards designers

@n3wjack Comedy vote for Chrome OS (seriously)

@n3wjack wdym "running"? the OS boots into windows, but most of the work is done either on WSL, or SSH'd into a linux box

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I use macOS and iPhone the most for day job.
I use Linux and Android for personal use.

@n3wjack How about a Chromebook?

@n3wjack OS X

@n3wjack Windows, too lazy to look for alternatives🙁

@n3wjack iOS

@n3wjack I use GNU, which is neither Linux nor Unix. :gutkato_teo:

@n3wjack @evan I’ll say Mac, but really I barely touch anything but my phone and tablet. (Keyboards are rough on my hands)

@n3wjack Arch configured to look like mint on both my laptop and desktop. Distro hopping on my phone now that Google stopped updating it.

@n3wjack Currently Linux and Windows on two different machines. But i'm switching to Linux only, because Windows (insert screaming here...)

@n3wjack @eniko as a Mac user myself i am very surprised by how high Mac is in this poll

@n3wjack iPadOS 😅

@n3wjack it should be a multi select though

@n3wjack A Chromebook, but there's a little Linux under the hood.

@n3wjack a hand-me-down iphone

@n3wjack Every time someone runs this poll the results demonstrate that the people who self select to respond are not at all representative of the general population. What I can’t figure out is if they are representative or the fediverse population or if the poll results are biased by self selection.

@n3wjack@mastodon.social dual boot linux windows

@n3wjack voted Mac, because I got that hardware from work, but even my wife, who is not a techie, is using her decade+ old Linux laptop for a lot of stuff because it works better than her relatively new Macbook Air.

It's a crappy platform, and if the Macs available for repurposing could run Linux decently, we'd be switching back.

@n3wjack having macOS be separated from the BSD's and *NIX boxes, damn!

@n3wjack Arch Linux 😉

@n3wjack I've seen a number of these and it seems to be influenced by your particular followers. :)

@n3wjack in theory Linux. In practice my computer spends most of its time booted into Haiku.

@n3wjack too bad it’s not a multiple choice question, ‘cuz osx is a unix!

@n3wjack i have a dual boot system, but since i do more gaming i need to boot windows more often :)

@n3wjack My laptop has a dual boot of Kubuntu and Windows 11 with it defaulting to Kubuntu. I still use Windows slightly more, though, mainly because that’s where all my music is.

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Feels so wrong... Yes, the actual laptop I use most frequently, runs windows. But the device I use Mastodon on, runs Android... 😅

@n3wjack @lisamelton the machine I use the most is my iPad Pro, so iPadOS.

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Tough one… I use a Mac laptop for writing and general office type work, I use a Windows machine for gaming and AI.

@n3wjack they all end up with Linux eventually. Never had one start that way

@n3wjack I wish I was a cool Linux person. But I just keep going back to Mac because it's just easy 🤷‍♂️.

@n3wjack I already voted, but I use macOS because I like Logic Pro for music production and because I can't run Max/MSP on Linux

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The last time I saw this type of poll, Windows still sucked.

@n3wjack Windows

@n3wjack only problem is, MacOS is Unix.

@n3wjack , a phone

@n3wjack Given that everything other than Windows and macOS is a small fraction of personal OS market share, this poll just shows that mainstream Fediverse adoption isn’t here yet

@n3wjack Thing is, Mac is also *nix

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Mac
for CAD and video editing and my day job programs . Its stable and i LOVE time machine..

Mint mate for my servers and obscure computers..

Windows 10 pro for games and VR .

@n3wjack Specifically, Gentoo.

@n3wjack Windows - for two reasons. Inertia from when I used to consult with former employers who were Windows-only shops; and because I am tech support for my author spouse who operates on Windows - better to try new stuff on mine, rather than hers

@n3wjack I feel bad for those still using proprietary operating systems

@n3wjack @timbray now I get why normals have a hard time getting into Mastodon. It’s neck beards all the way down.

@n3wjack just stopped debian after 3 years. Back on windows 10 with a good firewall. No gafam software go in or out.

@n3wjack
I have used Apple since the beginning of the 80s (I was around 5,it was my dad's computer), then Mac. I had some Win machines from work , but always refused them after a while.
During the pandemic my Mac broke and I worked with a used ThinkPad x250 I had to learn how to install Arch Linux. Now I moved the installation to a newer AMD ThinkPad and used Linux exclusively for 3 years, no regrets.

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My desktop runs Windows but the computer (tablet) that I use the most runs Android

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Answered Windows but it's a temporary thing. Giving the drivers time to mature. Once every ten years or so my laptop is fairly new tech, I happen to be in one of those rare moments.

@n3wjack I use fedora fyi

@n3wjack Linux both on my personal (Fedora) and work (Pop!_OS) laptop

@n3wjack Why is this a single choice?

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I suppose he first option as chromeOS & Android.

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