Which operating system do you use, and why?

[Entroper]

LingLing said:

Entroper said:

 

I tried Ubuntu on my main workstation, but after 2 hours or so of dealing with the package manager crashing and screwing up my install, I said to hell with it. I don't have time to fiddle with an OS to make it work right on my main computer, I need it to do what I want it to do when I want it to do it.

Most people who rant about linux being bad probably just tried it for 15 minutes and when something didn't work, they just tossed it away saying "Linux is bad, I couldn't do XY" . As if you don't run into problems with M$ Software. HA HA HA

Of course you need time to adapt to a new type of OS when you change from Windows to Linux but this could well be the best spent computer time of your life...

As I said, I run Linux on my web server and have been running it for years.  I am not a n00b who needs time to adapt to Linux.  I tried Ubuntu for several hours, not 15 minutes.  Software would not install properly with the package manager, it would not install properly from the command line, and it would not install properly after reading several FAQs and HOWTOs and fiddling with all the configuration files.  All I wanted to do was install Eclipse so I could do my Java development for a class I was taking.  I had it up and running in Vista in no time flat.