Windows, Mac, or Linux?

Thanks for that ace yes I've seen a video on you tube about running virtual machine that looks a good way to do it.

 

Window but i'm also want to learn Mac or Linux...

 

Switched my laptop from Ubuntu to Linux Mint the other day... Performs like a champ.

Desktop is Windows 10/Ubuntu Gnome dual-boot.

I'm not a fan of Unity in Ubuntu... The Gnome environment seems to offer what I was looking for.

 

you can run ubuntu and not use Unity as desktop environment, you can install whichever ones you wish, several of them if that's what you want. (do RTFM first, or you can screw yourself into dependency hell or break things in strange ways)

ubuntu uses a slightly newer kernel, and software is bleeding edge, compared to debian which uses a slightly older kernel and is more conservative with software, preferring well tested and stable software over stuff that's not been as thoroughly tested, and thus may have some quirks. They both use systemd (which some see as evil, for being being too big and does too many things, which violates the UNIX philosophy that a program should do one thing, but do it very well ... like several million lines of code big, but dbus is pretty useful, pulseaudio uses it, as well as most of gnome), and apt/aptitutde but both are highly customizable and you can set up a debian system and an ubuntu system and have them pretty much identical as far as usage, features, etc. Ubuntu is a debian fork after all.

I like gnome, but right now I only have xfce and i3-wm (debian jessie 8.2) ... I rarely use xfce for the few times I wnat a real "GUI", and it's lightweight and I like that, but almost exclusively i3-wm (a tiling window manager, keyboard driven) .... just cuz it's so damn good ... expecially when you want to quickly open several source code files and documentation, i3-wm will tile them in the optimal ways mostly using red-black trees (each tile, is a child of a container) to waste no screen space, and let you rearrange tiles very quickly, so no more manually resizing your windows, trying to fit them all in your limited screen space trying not to have any wasted screen space

IMO, unity isn't all that bad, I don't hate it, it's just not my preference.



this is what i3-wm looks like with 2 monitors, the right monitor is devoted to a web browser full screen (but you can create many virtual displays that can be switched between easily), the left monitor I have open two source files, a Makefile, a hexdump of a programs output, as well as the manual page for the stat system call. With 10 virtual displays, just imagine how much more you can see at once and have access to easily without having to close anything. Most people I know are pretty clueless about how to actually do anything at all my particular setup, but they use it with my help because I know the hotkeys and can just open the program they want to use ... which is a good thing IME since I don't want most people fucking around with my computer and screwing things up. If i'm not watching them, i lock it with i3-lock so I don't have to logout, and warn them that anything they do on this machine that I do not approve of will not go unnoticed by me, if I decide to investigate later

 

Windows, specially Windows-8, the best operating system software i ever used.

 

then you must have never tried *nix (or GNU/Linux) ... u might change your mind

 

Uff. never accomplished that so far I have ti admit, still in the Windows thingy, but i heard the bestest from linus as far - so maybe woth to give it a try.