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Vista SP1
xp sp3
ubuntu 9.04
ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix
ubuntu 9.04 server edition
inferno fourth edition (20090418)
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
maemo Linux based OS2008
Version: 5.2008.43-7
anonix
My main PC is triple-boot Arch Linux with GNOME (primary OS), Windows XP (games only), Mac OS X (Lightroom and just because). Laptop is running Arch Linux without a desktop environment. Also, I have Slackware with GNOME (desktop) and NetBSD (server/router) boxes laying around, not doing anything right now. At work currently I use Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, little bit of SunOS, Gentoo Linux.. Right tool for the right job, you know.
> Right tool for the right job, you know.
FreeBSD is a lot nicer than Linux on laptops, you know.
Unless you're using intentionally broken (and not just the normal kind of intentionally broken, the kind that requires extensive knowledge of the Linux kernel to write) closed source software, that is.
Currently using PC-BSD on my netbook.
Windows 4.90.3000
AKA
Windows Millennium Edition
In San Francisco, Brandon Seltenrich has spent the past eight months beta testing Windows Me. "I'm impressed," says Seltenrich, 27. "It's by far the most robust and reliable consumer operating system from Microsoft."
http://4chan.b33r.net/my%20pictures/+meeeestats.bmp
seriously!
I mainly use XP because my office computer is XP and MS office. I use vista, fedora and ubuntu at home. I feel fedora is easist to use. MS OS 10 is also easy to use. I have no luck with FreeBSD after installation. The OS does not work as BSD books said.
Fedora 11
>>12
well obviously freebsd 7 wouldn't work the same as freebsd 2.
read the freebsd handbook instead of some ancient book.
XP on this computer, Vista and Ubuntu on my laptop.
Happily Archlinuxing too!
Dual booting XP time to time for LANs.
GB2 Making posts on 4chan from behind your outdated shitty OS please.
Come back when you're switched to a real one.
Arch Linux on both my "desktop" (read: laptop too large to carry anywhere) and netbook. Dusty copy of Vista on "desktop" also.
Hello from OpenSUSE 11.1 on my netbook. It's the only distro where I can get KDE running without major lag.
Mac OS 10.5.7
Windows 7 build 7600.
whatever my phone runs
Arch Linux, very fast and simple.
Desktop+work Windows XP, media/public/server1 Ubuntu desktop, server2 Ubuntu server. Netbook came with Linpus.
Tried using Ubuntu and Debian for my desktop as well but found it to be more than I was ready to learn. Also tried netBSD for server but I had no idea what I was doing.
desktop: xp
netbook: linpus linux ( hi, >>24 )
server: ubuntu
this combo brings me much joy (which is also the captcha)
Debian Testing.
>>9
FreeBSD nicer on laptops than Linux? How so?
>>9
Tried FreeBSD on my laptop (10 years old, at least). Text only was all right, but X was as buggy as a anthill, I just about managed to open xterm on it. Switched to Slackware, X works, but now I realise it's probably not worth it.
>>27
it's faster, and wireless drivers are more likely to work out of the box.
also, it was a lot easier to get x working at the screen's native resolution. this was after being told that to get it working on ubuntu or gentoo i'd have to recompile x.
Ultra Seven
Ubanto on main computard, linpus on netbook, Windows XP in school.
Both my laptop and desktop are running XP
OSX on the desktop, Debian 5.0 on the laptop.
XP SP3
OSX / Win 7 dual boot on one laptop, XP on the other (used to be Ubuntu, might give Debian or Fedora a try next).
Any comments on Moblin? Upcoming Chrome OS ?
I wouldn't trust google to use an OS made by them. It's funny how everyone has already forgotten the privacy concerns that came up when chrome came out and have gone and bought Androids and all that. You just know google is secretly datamining you under your nose.
Used Windows XP for the longest time, slowly migrating to the open source world now.
Using Xubuntu because it was easy as hell to set up. Still, it does feel like it's trying to hide a little too much from me. Once I order my new PC (with more than one drive bay! ( ˃ ヮ˂) ) I'll be trying out a bunch of other distros as well, maybe even some type of BSD.
My current PC will become a server, which I'll probably put either Debian or Slackware on.
>>38
there's this thing called source code... for android and chrome, it's freely available and quite readable.
OSX 10.2 on snow white lappy. XP & ubuntu on desktop. CENTOS on servers
I've got Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop and a dual boot of BackTrack 4 / Fedora LXDE on my netbook.
>>40
Do you not remember the original EULA to Chrome?
>>42
do you not remember that EULAs are not legally binding in many jurisdictions?
OS X 1.6
Hell yeah. Running Debian squeeze (testing) on my Eee PC 1000HA.
Maemo
dual booting Win 7 Ultimate and Fedora 13 on my eeepc 1005ha (^o^)/
dual booting Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows XP Professional on EEEPC 1000H
Lots of EEEPC users here...
Using Vista SP2. Used to use Archlinux. Why did I switch? Needed space for anime. I know I'm ashamed too.
Right now using Ubuntu 10.04, sometimes post at work from an Android handset.
Snow Leopard on my work computer, with Jolicloud and Windows XP virtual machines. Windows XP at home.
Dual boot Snow Leopard/Win7 MBP, XP Toshiba. Had Ubuntu 9.0something on the latter for a few months.
This computer (my netbook) - Ubuntu 10.10
Spare laptop (never really leaves the house) - Debian Testing
Older netbook (EeePC 701, the battery is pretty much dead and cannot hold a charge) - Puppy Linux
Persistent USB (used on other computers I cannot install Linux on) - Ubuntu 10.04
ARCH Lunix b/c I am so hardcore.
Win98 SE SP-2012
PC3000 i use.
Home: Arch Linux
Work: RedHat Workstation
Windows XP SP 3.
Windows 7, I'm pretty ok with this OS but curious about testing some Linux distributions.
Still using XP at home & on laptop. Everything is Windows 7 at work. Used to mess with Linux but I'm all business now.
Arch Linux, rolling release ^_^)b
Linux 2.6.40.4-5, I mean, Fedora 15 with KDE.
Dual booting Windows 7 and Debian 6 stable.
slackware 13.37
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64bit
XP SP3 on a desktop
FreeBSD on a desktop
Xubuntu on a netbook
98SE on a older desktop
Dual boot.
Debian testing & Windows 7
Ubuntu 11.10 on my netbook, Windows Server 2008 R2 on my desktop. Planning on buying a MBP though.
Ubuntu 10.10 on netbook.
Debian (latest version) on my desktop.
Peppermint Linux
Mac OS X Lion on a laptop.
WinXP
ARCH
LINUX
win7
Slackware-current, but with a custom kernel and tons of programs taken out / added.
Gentoo
WinXP
Win 7, Though i dualboot ubuntu.
arch
...
...
...Vista.
I'm giving Commodore OS Vision a test spin and it's pretty neat-o.
>>82
I just looked at Commodore's webpage for it, and my first impression was "gah! Why would anyone make an embedded YouTube clip autoplay and suppress all its interface buttons?" Then I watched the actual trailer, and while the interface does look rather sleek, I can't say I appreciate the way they implicitly claim various pieces of FOSS software as their own creation and/or somehow exclusive to their OS.
On an unrelated note, why is my captcha "houttment" on every 4-ch board I've visited today?
Lubuntu 12.04
i'd use debian, but i mostly use my pc for gaming so win7
iv had troubles getting the files for debian, not gonna lie rather new to using opensource. could do with some direction
Slackware~ Are are, the best OS~
>>87
Download the .iso, and then burn that to a USB, use Rufus if you're on windows. Then shut off your computer and boot into BIOS (mash escape or an F button). Figure out how to boot to USB, we can't help you here. Then try to boot into "live CD" mode from that, to demo it out.
Or you can download VirtualBox or some other OS virtualizer, then run it in a VM on your normal OS. This is easy but makes it a bit slower.
The Slackbook is a great resource: read it here: http://slackbook.org/html/book.html
Gentoo
>>1
Windows. I spent 3-5 years or so using Linux as my exclusive OS, but it's too much of a pain in the ass to justify using it as an exclusive desktop OS. When I bought a new laptop and upgraded to win10 I just never got around to partitioning and installing a *nix distro, and I realized I don't really need it. The only program that I still need and use on a regular basis is emacs now, and that runs on windows too.
Arch Linux. Its pretty neato.
>>85
Just install wine. It lets you use windows software on linux.
>>90
Why in gods name would you ever use Win10 though? Win10 is a horrible, horrible thing. If you'd rather use windows, use Windows 7, or at LEAST 8
>>93
Win10 seems to have a smaller footprint than 8 and it's not too bad once you discover the Win+X shortcut. My only major complaint is how horribly slow the start menu search is - it seems to take forever to launch anything compared to Win7 or Win8.1.
>>90
I find that some of emacs more complex features dont work very well on Windows.
It reads every word you type, and sends that information to Microsoft.
Windows 10
I use it at home and at work.
>>96
Windows 7 is still under extended support until 2020.
Though even if unsupported it would be preferable to 7.
>>94
Yes, I think Cortana acts as the new search engine. It's kind of a shame, because I remember Win8.1 search was consistently zippy enough that I just used it as a launcher.
Although, I just tried searching some recently used and not-so-recently used programs via start search and all the results came back instantly, so maybe it was just indexing files last time I checked?
>>95
All the DBUS features are broken, because there's no DBUS for Windows, but I don't normally use them even on *nix. The only real problem I've had is that after being up long enough emacs will hang indefinitely and have to be killed manually and restarted. I'm not sure why this is, but I'm assuming it's due to some difference in how Windows/*nix expect processes to return or fork. I've been looking into using the WSL for emacs, but their support for things like GTK and DBUS still aren't good enough yet to make it worth dropping the current Windows version of emacs.
Which complex features did you have problems with?
