I tried several. Ubuntu is the best. The king of the hill. But the hill is made of shit.
With a well-designed OS, it wouldn’t matter.
exactly
Due to some stupid problem with my graphics card I was recommended by a friend (who is a professional system administrator or something) to install Ubuntu. I used to run windows xp as its my old trashy pc and that was far from perfect. At first I was like wow! This is really fast and stable. But after a week I am so done with it. Then it wont stream movies, then it wont mount external hard drives, then it wont mount my mp3 player, then in wont copy files, then Openoffice completely fucks up my paper. I am willing to admit half of these problems must be caused by my n00bness but man am I done with this shit. Userfriendly my ass!
My Ubuntu laptop died, so I was using a MacBook Pro for a few months. I hate it, too, but not as much as I hate Ubuntu.
Now I got a new laptop with Windows 7. It has some annoyances and stupidities, but the overall experience is much better than Ubuntu. (Still running Ubuntu in a virtual machine and a desktop, so I will still complain, just less often.)
So it’s not so much a matter of which OS I hate, but which I hate more. Ubuntu is the worst of the three by far.
Windows 7 > Mac OS ≫ Ubuntu