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It now visually finds your files by giving you large previews with its Gallery view feature. It also allows you to see the full metadata in the preview pane. While testing, MacOS performed as a strong alternative to Microsoft Windows that comes with its own Mac app store where users can discover, create, work and play tabs.
This future unfolding platform deserves our third spot. Despite its different kernel base, it hosts a very similar interface to Windows and MacOS. It arguably is the most popular distribution of the Linux operating system which currently has millions of users.
While testing the OS, we were surprised by its completely out of the box experience. It has plugins, codecs for media and wide support for Java, DVD playback and features configuration tools with a web-based packaged installation interface.
Adding to that, it supports Ubuntu software repositories that allow it to come in various versions—all free with wide support. There are many reasons behind the success of Linux Mint. The ease that it provides right from its installation to its operations is commendable. Apart from that, we found that the platform is community driven where users are allowed to provide feedback on every aspect of the operating system.
This leads to massive improvements in a short period of time. Its latest version Linux Mint 19, also called Tara, is promised of long term support, which is expected to continue until Since Linux Mint has similar feel and experience to Windows, the switch between them becomes a logical step.
We give it our fourth spot. The first two words that come to mind while describing Arch Linux are lightweight and flexible. Compared to the other Windows alternatives on the list, we found Linux Mint much simpler to use.
Apart from that, the OS uses Pacman, its own package manager, which provides people with the latest software updates and an ability to track them. Users can also choose to share these custom packages by using Linux user repository. This further leads to a wide range of customization that users can benefit from during their installations.
Currently, Arch Linux features optimized packages for both the x architecture, which is further complemented with its packaged repository. Its website claims that the repository grows in size and quality with each passing day. The other thing that stood out during our testing was its diverse and helpful community that surrounds Arch Linux OS. There is tons of skillset on the platform. Users are encouraged to use the forums and mailing lists to gain extra knowledge on the topics of their choice.
This OS deserves your attention. Fedora is designed by an open group called Red Hat, which encourages open participation and uniquely merits the contributors with specified objectives. On their website, we found that Fedora has a clear goal to build a complete purposeful operating system with the help of the Linux community.
We found that the brand greatly stresses on open participation. Its Red Hat engineering team continues to improve Fedora with an objective to become an ideal free software that could become more appealing to the open source community. Adding to that, Fedora also promises on producing time-based releases that drop about times in a year. Fedora is easy to install. Its integration with GNOME has continued its legacy of being up and current with the latest technology.
We found it pretty stable with all our testing tasks. We also noticed that the users in its forum complemented for its wide support and server-based functionalities. For eg, all our devices were automatically recognized without installing any kind of drivers on the machine.
Things like this pull Fedora apart from other alternatives on the list. It's definitely worth a try. Elementary OS is another Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. While testing, to our surprise, it was amazingly fast and aesthetically pleasing.
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