What's your main OS

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I use Linux myself - usually Xubuntu, or, depending on the hardware, at least any Debian-derivative with Xfce as the desktop environment. I really like and get on well with Debian and Xfce.

Outside of that, the rest of my gear runs Android, which is itself Linux-based, as well.
 
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NinjaRabbit said:
I use Linux myself - usually Xubuntu, or, depending on the hardware, at least any Debian-derivative with Xfce as the desktop environment. I really like and get on well with Debian and Xfce.
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I've tried a couple of times to fully move over to Linux, specifically Ubuntu or Xubuntu (and on the older stuff, Lubuntu), however, whilst OK on a couple of machines, on a couple of laptops, I simply cannot get it to install no matter what - the usual problem is X not recognising the graphics hardware properly. I tend to find it just crashes or displays a blank black screen and even Ctrl+Alt+F1 to drop to a console does not work (hence, why I assume it's crashed)

Admitidly, the laptops are old (early Pentium 4 era or late Pentium 3 era) with naff graphics chips (I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6050SP with a "Trident CiberBlade XP" graphics chip, and an IBM ThinkPad T22 with an S3 chip of some sort, neither of which will work with any Ubuntu or Debian based distro - not tried anything else)

The success with laptops, is I have a Dell Latitude D610 in seriously bad condition (it's quite literally dropping to bits) - this runs Ubuntu 12.04 LTS like a dream. I still keep a partition with Windows on it though, as I've not found a satisfactory replacement for iTunes (I know there are iPod/iPhone tools for Ubuntu, but none of them work to my expectations)

Personally I'm getting fed up with Windows. I hate Mac OS X but Ubuntu seems like a nice OS to me, shame it doesn't want to work on half my hardware.

Whilst Windows is my main OS (and all my 'work' is based around it), I do have an Android-based tablet, an iPhone (obviously running iOS) and a Raspberry Pi (running Raspian, a Debian derivative)
 
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Osx twice. 2011 Mac book pro 13" i5 and 2012 hexacore Xeon Mac pro. Both with 16gb ram. Sweet machines.
 
GNU/Linux (Debian) at home, even for games.

Windows 7 at home for games that won't run in Linux.

ClassicWB because AMiGA :D

Windows 7 at work (because I have to).
 
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Win 7 x64 for me on all my modern systems. I've also tried switching to Linux on multiple occasions but I just don't want to mess about with my OS that much. :)

Heather
 
SkydivinGirl said:
I've also tried switching to Linux on multiple occasions but I just don't want to mess about with my OS that much. :)
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Funnily enough, that's precisely the reason I use Linux myself. :lol:
 
Yep! It's a great OS, but you definitely need to be inclined to fiddling with it. The OS is more of a launching point for me so I don't want to spend that much time with it. That's the beauty of all the choices we have. There's something for everyone! :D

Heather
 
MacOS 10.9.2 & occasionaly AmigaOS 4.1.6

No Winblows machine either at home or at work
 
SkydivinGirl said:
Yep! It's a great OS, but you definitely need to be inclined to fiddling with it. The OS is more of a launching point for me so I don't want to spend that much time with it. That's the beauty of all the choices we have. There's something for everyone! :D

Heather
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Actually, I'm not inclined toward fiddling with an OS at all, would you believe? My requirement is simply for an OS that stays out of my way and does what I want it to do, and I started using Debian-based Linuxes for precisely that reason, as they tend to just be "Set it and forget it" these days. :thumbsup: (I have not had the same good experience of Red Hat-based stuff, though. Those are a living nightmare for me!)

Agreed on that being the beauty of all the choices, though - I remember how it was being stuck with OSes I found unusable. It was, in a word, cack. :lol:
 
It's not a matter of knowing that AmigaOS 4.1 exists. MacOS and Linux do exist as well, but mostly all malware, exploits etc, are aimed at windoze system, which is obvious why.
 
yes because there are more windows systems than all the other systems combined, pointless to attack something with such a small market share, currently the largest "growth" area in attacks is MacOS but it will take a long, long time to reach MS levels, also why can't a non Windows user say windows? they seem incapable of it, windoze winblows etc, smacks of 6 year olds in the playground
 
I've used Linux Mint for the last 18 months, but I dual boot into Windows 7 for games. In day to day terms I suppose I use Linux 90% to Windows 10%.
Not really for any ethical reason, but just because my laptop runs faster, cooler and more reliably with Mint. I have it locked down pretty tightly as I do all my banking on here, and I just don't trust Windows on a daily basis.
However, Windows runs all my games and emulators very nicely, and I see no reason to cut off my nose to spite my face.
 
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also why can't a non Windows user say windows? they seem incapable of it, windoze winblows etc, smacks of 6 year olds in the playground
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Don't judge the silent majority on the few who feel a need to use silly labels. ;) Honestly, the rest of us think it's just as stupid as you do.
 
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What does grind my gears a tad is all the OS "eliteism" that seems to happen online.
All the Mac OS X and Linux users seem to be so anti-Windows etc. and kind of rub it in.

As a techy, I appreciate Windows & Linux (I'm less impressed with Mac OS X tbh, but had had too much exposure to it in recent years) - I use Windows and Linux (although mostly Windows) - but since Windows 8 (and 8.1 etc.) my opinions are starting to sway from Windows over to the Linux camp a bit more. I'm trying the Windows 10 Techinical Preview on one machine at the monent - it's really buggy! I appreciate it's only in beta, but if MS leave some of these "features" in the OS as they are, they'll lose some of their userbase over to Linux or Mac OS.

If only there was a more 'complete' AmigaOS port to x86 ;) I'd be more than happy then. (AROS etc. seems too incomplete to me)
 
Icarus Desktop 2.0 is due any moment mate and the previews look very good, much nicer OS than OS4.xx :)

@NinjaRabbit, looking back at our previous exchanges it would appear we are coming from oppasite sides of the same area :) please do not take anything i say as personal, i do tend to type what i think and sometimes i do play Devil's advocate, but i mean nothing by it
 
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