dual boot bitches
Best OS for gaming and programming
Jordan Reyes
Adrian Green
Yeah, but OP is an idiot because they're posting on Jow Forums in the first place, so non-free operating systems are the only options.
Jonathan Wood
lies and denial are not an argument, sweetia ;)
Daniel Clark
Windows desktop programs.
UWP
Android dev
Gaming dev
Linux bash
Built-in VM to run Linux
Directx dev
All major browsers supported
Visual Studio
Java and Java IDEs
Virtually all languages/platforms have some level (or preference) of ability to code/compile/run on Windows 10
So basically, unless OP is using some super niche/stupid programming language/platform (i.e., anything MacOS or iOS related), yeah, Windows 10 is the most versatile OS for programming.
Noah Clark
Win7 service pack 1 with disabled updates. You can game and code anything on it. Coding C is harder to do than on Linux, though, but the gaming side of Linux is obviously pretty lacking.
Christopher Stewart
>anything MacOS or iOS related
iOS applications can be developed and released from scratch on Xamarin
macOS is less straightforward, but there are Cocoa-compatible frameworks (GNUstep is one of them) available on Windows and Linux which allow developing of fully macOS-compatible applications.
There's also .Net core, Java, and whatever else is cross-platform and natively supported by macOS.
Funnily enough, there are even legal (albeit redundant) ways of running macOS on a Windows-based VM if someone cares about legality for some reason.
>Built-in VM to run Linux
WSL is not a VM.
Grayson Ortiz
Linux + Windows in a VM with GPU passthrough
Nathan Davis
Ganoo/Linucks with GPU passthrough
Liam Nguyen
GNU
>OS X for gaming
No
Jason Smith
I was referring to Hyper-V, not WSL, sorry.
Thanks for info regarding mac dev.