Hi!
Over the past few months my job has had me in an environment where I have gotten to spend quality time with several different operating systems. On the laptop front I have been using Windows 10, OSX Mohave and on my personal daily driver have been tinkering with Linux Mint, Elementary OS and BSD. So I thought I would record some observations:
Windows 10: I still am not crazy about the tiled UI but I have to admit the OS has grown up a lot in pretty much every other respect. Nowadays it is fast, well behaved and pretty easy to set policies on. We do turn off Cortana and also in Setup use Privacy Center to turn a lot of stuff off. Also Edge is unsuitable at present for our browser needs but the new Edge seems very promising.
Elementary OS: What a turd! It's supposed to be the usability king of Linux but it ran so choppy in Live mode it was useless, and all attempts to actually install it in dual boot mode were unsuccessful - I even turned off Secure Boot and everything to make it easier. I think the core underlying issue is GRUB in this case. I may give it another shot.
BSD: It should say something that I had an easier time getting BSD Unix running even though no one updates it anymore than Elementary OS. As an OS, it was sort of a novelty in that it was not especially usable. But at least you could attempt to do things with it which is more than I can presently say for Elementary OS.
Mint: Right now Mint wins the Linux contest mainly by default as I was actually able to get it installed and running. I'm running Linux Mint 19.1 (Tessa) Cinnamon edition. So far it seems decent enough if a tiny bit choppy . The big weakness here is productivity in Office terms - the only option is LibreOffice which I have to say is still just as bad as I remember. Unintuitive UI, export fidelity not good and generally second rate.
OSX Mohave: To be honest this is far and away the most polished OS in the list - even more so than Windows. It is fast, everything looks and acts consistent and it has first class applications. I use Brave browser on the Mac and in Windows and Office 2016 Mac is far better than LibreOffice or iWork and in fact it is more polished than the version of Office on Windows.
Just some thought - screenshots will follow.
Over the past few months my job has had me in an environment where I have gotten to spend quality time with several different operating systems. On the laptop front I have been using Windows 10, OSX Mohave and on my personal daily driver have been tinkering with Linux Mint, Elementary OS and BSD. So I thought I would record some observations:
Windows 10: I still am not crazy about the tiled UI but I have to admit the OS has grown up a lot in pretty much every other respect. Nowadays it is fast, well behaved and pretty easy to set policies on. We do turn off Cortana and also in Setup use Privacy Center to turn a lot of stuff off. Also Edge is unsuitable at present for our browser needs but the new Edge seems very promising.
Elementary OS: What a turd! It's supposed to be the usability king of Linux but it ran so choppy in Live mode it was useless, and all attempts to actually install it in dual boot mode were unsuccessful - I even turned off Secure Boot and everything to make it easier. I think the core underlying issue is GRUB in this case. I may give it another shot.
BSD: It should say something that I had an easier time getting BSD Unix running even though no one updates it anymore than Elementary OS. As an OS, it was sort of a novelty in that it was not especially usable. But at least you could attempt to do things with it which is more than I can presently say for Elementary OS.
Mint: Right now Mint wins the Linux contest mainly by default as I was actually able to get it installed and running. I'm running Linux Mint 19.1 (Tessa) Cinnamon edition. So far it seems decent enough if a tiny bit choppy . The big weakness here is productivity in Office terms - the only option is LibreOffice which I have to say is still just as bad as I remember. Unintuitive UI, export fidelity not good and generally second rate.
OSX Mohave: To be honest this is far and away the most polished OS in the list - even more so than Windows. It is fast, everything looks and acts consistent and it has first class applications. I use Brave browser on the Mac and in Windows and Office 2016 Mac is far better than LibreOffice or iWork and in fact it is more polished than the version of Office on Windows.
Just some thought - screenshots will follow.