I’ve used Windows, Mac, and Linux. Based solely on my personal experience, I’ve found them all pretty similar in usability and reliability.
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Yeah, it's only when you get to edge cases that you start seeing differences. That and reliability of your environment (because of updates). Unfortunately, those edge cases are increasingly more common, such as my grandpa needing to connect to his old HP printer. It took a manual driver install...
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...on Windows, but it worked straight away on Mac and Linux. Or trying to get the scanner to work. It's little things that slowly add up.
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That’s a great example of why I’m glad we have choices for our OS. While Windows works well for me, I’m glad there are other options available.
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But I’m reluctant to say “Mac/Linux is more reliable” based on anecdotes. I’ve seen stories of Mac and Linux struggles, too (example: www.dedoimedo.com/computers/li...).
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Free market at its finest. However the universal rule of "all software sucks" applies here as well.
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For me personally, the tiebreakers were 1. as a support professional, wanting to be most familiar with the OS that most colleagues and clients used, 2. the largest selection of software and hardware. There have been a few POSIX-only programs I liked. Fortunately, CygWin provided them on Windows.
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