If you hate BILL GATES, then the first thing you should do is swtich to LINUX OS...

He stole Windows from his partners. Ef Windows and Microcrap.

Have you forgotten the Blue Screen of Death? Windows 95 used to crash several times a day.

When I was at college in the late 1990s, the Windows NT network would crash a couple of times each lesson and we'd have to wait about 15 minutes for it to reboot.

Been a Unix engineer since 1983 and using Mint right now,,,,,no complaints at all except when running Widows programs. I havent seen an emulator yet that works well, you may as well run win 10 offline while gaming.

You can run macOS as an alternative. Linux is great, but macOS is a better OS for the average user.

Yep,games are important.Ummmm yeah,whatever floats your boat.

People are dumb and cannot be taught. Just use it and excel above the sheeps.

Ubuntu or Linux Mint are the best for those making the jump.

you dont need tutoring honestly. Ubuntu for example is UI based OS, just like Win. for most peep if just browsing net linux setup is cake. if you have older equip will run way better/faster

this is what id do. Use linux as your desktop, then use vmware, or virtual box for Windows. Lets face it Windows has some robust apps which some people like. so just run win ontop on linux, when your done editing etc shutdown virtual machine. if you have modest PC skills its not that hard at all.

macOS Seriously?

You need windows to play game yes. It take time but you can completly virtualise your Win10 from a Linux machine with Qemu and Libvirt. Muchmuch secure. I virtualise it behind a Manjaro machine for simplicity.

You guys all crack me up on here. Maybe people should use linux because it gives them freedom and control unlike Windows who gives an F about Bill.

I pretty much use is Ubuntu 18.03 desktop 88% of the time, For all you afraid of linux or never used it. This version its basically free MacOsx the way the GUI is set these days.

If you need a macbook that bad just to feel cool you can install the other desktop GUIs available and MacOsx skin, font, and icons.The ubuntu app store works the same as Mac but all the apps are free, some suck bawlz and some are great,last there is auto updates via the GUI for you non-command line losers.

Sometimes I use Kali Linux but that's only when needed for work purposes.For whoever that person was that thinks you cannot play games on Linux they are wrong. You can! must install lutris, wine, DXVK Vulcan drivers and make sure you have compatible chipset and graphics.

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FYI - Bill Gates Resigned from the board of Microsoft when the covid-hoax started. He has little influence with the company in recent years its all the new CEO Satya if you read any articles.

using Ubuntu 20. LTS running as a VM myself now

Virtualised game work better. I can push my GPU via passthrought far more than a regular user.

are DAWs good for music production? I don't think so.

Linux has Audacity.

I saved an old Surface Pro 3 with I7 1.74GHZ 8GB RAM 256SSD. Ubuntu 18.03 installs nice it takes up a fraction of the HD compared to Windows and after running apt update and upgrade then fixing one of the config files so the wifi doesnt auto-sleep, all works great... the touch screen and the stylus no probs. This thing Never overheats anymore, fan rarely turns on like when Windows10 was on it.

Linux

Most people don't realize near 40% of the VMs in Microsoft Azure are Linux. Heck maybe more that was an old stat when I got it last year.

TRY LMMS its the K-Mart of Fruity Loops. Looks like the older version of fruity loops from a number of years back.

I tried. I prefer to stay out of DAWs altogether.

The time to do that was in the late 90s and 2000s as windows proliferated. He’s mostly divested from Microsoft now.

so far I'm pretty happy with this baby:

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Decent games run in dos


hell w/windows

I am not a music guy, just know what stuff is available and toyed around a bit. I have a friend that uses both FL studio, Cubase, a mackie mixer, speakers, an Access Virus B rack mounted, among many other flim flams,insruments,and synths.

I know hes selling a lot of gear in excellent condition, if you PM me i can get his list. I think he may still have a Virus-C the one with the keyboard, moog synth to name a couple.

I like mint. It's one of the better distros out there. I've been using it for quite a while.

Does anyone here have an opinion on Elementary OS?

haven't tried it yet, but have been using Ubuntu, on and off, for almost 15 years.

synthwise I'd like to get my hands on this:

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Ya that looks like a fun studio toy! you got a sound cloud for the stuff you make? PM me ill check it out.

I’ve been using Apple and Mac OS. It’s by far superior to Windows and Linux in every way.

Everyone shud be using Apple.

I tried to PM you but my account wouldn't let me.

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linux isn't anymore secure. in fact in many ways it's worse

also gates has stepped down from Microsoft.

For workstations, the only thing i've seen with recent linux distros is that it's a next next finish on the install so some of you idiots don't need to figure out how to partition your setup...

The real advantage of linux is for business as long as you have the human resource who has serverside chops and can harden the server and you want to save money on microsoft high licensing fees....

For the avg user, 90% of the linux distros are a lot like most cryptocurrencies....

It's all half baked trash...

Yes I think macOS is the best operating system. It has a BSD/UNIX foundation with the best user interface. The macOS UI is in a different league then the others.

You can run virtual machines on macOS.