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Which Operating System has the best user interface and best user experience.

Is it Linux, Mac or Windows?

Do you know any statistics where user has answered to this question?

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This is too broad a question. Depending on the user, their needs and what they are looking to do and their knowledge of the os then users will prefer to use any of these operating systems. – Stewart Dean Mar 3 at 18:53

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This question to me sounds very subjective. I don't honestly of any statistics whereby you could quantify one design decision over any other, add them all up, and present a winner.

Trying to measure user performance or productivity is incredibly hard, in that the best designed operating system would perform best? Different users have their own different user models which are adapted from the operating system(s) they have used. Think of an Apple user using a Windows machine, and being perplexed because X or Y feature doesn't react the way they expect.

So how could you realistically expect to measure the performance of multiple users over different operating systems? You might get in the situation where person A has two years Windows experience, 1 year Linux experience, another might have 10 years with Mac OS X, 2 with Windows. Also what is the users background? A power user might process their email in Linux with command line, and another user is an occasional user whom checks their email within Outlook and rarely uses the keyboard. Things start to become quite complicated.

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