The first OS I used was DOS (well, if you don't count the Sinclair ZX80) and then I moved on to Windows. Then in 2009 I switched to macOS.

I found the hardware and software as trouble-free as could be and so I've stuck with macOS till now. But now, given Apple's current direction, I have been thinking since WWDC that it is time to switch again. Question is, to what?

I see people online who talk about how they'll never switch away from Apple for whatever reason. Good for them. I have no such compunctions. I will switch if the OS (or the company) no longer aligns with what I want.

I have been running both Linux and Windows on secondary machines for a while because I knew this day was coming. From a purely software perspective, given that it has the most software and supports most things I currently run, Windows seems to be the choice. But I'm not absolutely certain.

But it looks very much as if my next computer will not be a Mac.

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@f I had the same path, dos, windows then MacOS. But I rage quit Mac in 2020 with the butterfly keyboard and big sur breaking my dev environment.

I've been full time Linux since and couldn't be happier

@codemonkeymike Which Linux distro do you use?

My biggest issue is my dependence on a few apps. I've been slowly switching over my personal apps to Flutter so that they can run on any platform, but I haven't tested them on Linux and don't really know how well Flutter apps work generally in Linux. But once I have all my personal apps converted over, I will (hopefully) be free 🙂