I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

@david_chisnall

Every time I try to use some Debian reskin I'm quickly reminded why I never use Linux on my main system when I have to use some dogshit package manager that then immediately fails on the first attempt to install something basic and all the help you search online is just a bunch of guys listing meaningless spaghetti of acronyms and secondary apps with non-descript names like "ChunkBerry" and "Derp Turtle".

Linux insists upon itself too much to be a serious daily OS.

@contrasocial @david_chisnall you didn't catch the joke. 
@vandorb12 @contrasocial @david_chisnall I think the joke is he was using debian the worst distro if you want to have anything else as a rock solid system. Even thought well tested the packages tent to be quite a bit out of date in the debian repos. I myself been a distro that runs the pacman package manger and it has been atleast 2 years ive had problems with installing stuff. Tho ive had some dependency conflicts recently but those were dune to the repos dooing wired stuff.
@vandorb12 @contrasocial @david_chisnall And finxing those is just removing the conflicting packages.