[geeks] Can't decide on an OS

[Nathan Raymond]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

> I've gotten too angry at OS X being too slow and bloated to the point I
> needed to pick another one.


What's your hardware?  I run OS X on a 2012 quad-core Mini with a 256GB
internal SSD, three external USB 3.0 hard drives, and 16GB of RAM and find
it rather snappy.  It multitasks better than my beefier PC (faster quad
core with a 128GB SSD, 2TB internal SATA with 64GB SSD dedicated cache,
16GB of RAM), which I think is due to kernel and driver architecture
differences.  Both are running the latest OS.  I have run Linux on the PC
in the past, and it was more responsive, but I understand your frustration
regarding drivers.  Linux runs well on my netbook.  I tried to use Linux
for an HTPC, but different issues with different distros frustrated me too
much.  I looked at BSD, but lack of drivers was an issue.


> Are there any sane OSes i'm forgetting?


Not that I can think of.  If you haven't upgraded to an SSD in your Mac,
it's the #1 upgrade I recommend, followed by at least 16GB of RAM.

- Nate