Which OS should I drive?
You’ll spend more hours with your OS on your daily driver than your spouse. Think about it. Will you spend 8+ hours a day, 5+ days a week, for 30+ years with your spouse? If you will spend that much time with your daily driver’s OS, can you really afford to use a suboptimal OS? Can you waste your life away like that? Isn’t it worth investing some time in the best OS?
The Options
Today, there’s still only the big 3: Windows, Mac, and Linux. non-mac BSD is esoteric. Temple OS doesn’t support networking. And Plan 9 never made it out of the lab. The big 3 are all popular enough that we won’t go into them or their differences.
The Golden Rule
The golden rule for choosing any long term personal technology choice like an OS or a text editor. Once you’ve ruled out everything that doesn’t meet the technical bar, we should pick:
The one that you’ll want to spend the mos…