As others have mentioned, an official ChromeOS install is the best desktop equivalent to GOS in terms of usability and security.
What is your desktop OS?
My dream is to be able to add privacy to that sentence!
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Fedora, Debian for all servers
I would suggest to avoid qubes os as it is a nightmare for beginners.
Start learning with user friendly distros as ubuntu, kubuntu, mint with cinnamon or xfce, open suse with kde or xfce. Most windows like experience is with xfce or KDE. And there is Zorin os that tries to look like windows and it is based on Ubuntu or Debian, I'm not sure.
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Dabian 11 at home and also at the office
I have been using Arch Linux for the past three years, and I am very satisfied with it. However, it requires a fair amount of research and technical knowledge to harden it properly. One should keep in mind that it is a DIY Linux distribution. This is not really appropriate for Linux newcomers.
One can read the following recommendations of Desktop OS security-wise:
In the next few years, once I get newer hardware, I plan to use QubeOS with Arch template.
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On desktop I do dualboot kubuntu (encrypted root and home) and windows. On servers I use opensuse or ubuntu. Kubuntu is my primary dekstop os for about 7 years now at work and at home. Windows I use only for games. I'm using ubuntu not because I like it, but because most things work with it. I've been using also opensuse on desktop for a year or so, but I like when things work. Using printer, scanner, or whatever, is usually impossible on other distro than ubuntu. On windows everything works out of the box, but I don't want to pay comfort with my privacy. On ubuntu it costs some effort, but with other distros it costs me so much time with everything I can think of. That time I want to spend better than figuring out why this or that does not work.
Open Suse Tumbleweed rolling release with kde. A beautiful distro and user friendly. Secure also
MacOS for work and Garuda (Arch) for personal.
dlb I would suggest to avoid qubes os as it is a nightmare for beginners.
So true. I had been daily driving CentOS, Ubuntu and other linux for years before Qubes, and it was still a nightmare.
By Qubes 4.0, it really did seem to clean up and was much more usable. Still hardware intensive though.
I still find that it's isolation is the closest to analog to GOS.
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MacOS
Considering switching to chrome OS
MacOS for work, Qubes elsewhere
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My needs are rather simple. An android tablet with a physical keyboard and trackball work for me.
Planning on getting a Pixel tablet soon and installing GOS.
MacOS for work, Garuda for my desktop.
Arch Linux for work and desktop
Windows
Linux on Desktop and Steam Deck
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Gentoo, Arch, Ubuntu for each of my systems
WIN 3.11 But I never turn it on because it's trash, unsecure, no updates, blue screen of death, etc... soooo many memories :]