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I've been using Unix in one form or another since the mid 80s, so that's pretty deeply ingrained by now.
I was strongly biased towards Solaris & OpenBSD for many years (Solaris on nice Sun hardware, OpenBSD on small machines) but both began to annoy me a little bit recently, so I switched to Void linux. (Also, there was ONE feature of Linux that I REALLY wanted - extended attributes (name=val) in the filesystem. Love those.)
I'm fascinated by Multics & Control Data's NOS (70s mainframe OS's), but that's for historic study, not actual use.
I still have a copy of Solaris for x86 somewhere, I liked it because it had a nice window manager before Linux and I hold onto the disk out of nostalgia
CDE had the advantage of being useful with a default config, at a time when most window managers required HUGE amounts of fiddling to get a nice environment.
Yeah, the first time I saw CDE was doing AIX for PPC admin and I thought it was nice so went and got the student edition of Solaris for something like โฌ7.50, lol
IIRC at the time CDE for Linux was available for about โฌ50, which was a lot of money back then!
Unfortunately I had approximately zero apps for Solaris, so apart from playing with the OS I got no actual use out of it.