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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
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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GB2 Making posts on 4chan from behind your outdated shitty OS please.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?
Windows 7. I doubt I'll ever upgrade to 8 or 10. By the time all support for 7 is cut I'll have probably migrated to Linux.
I managed to cut off updates mere days before the supposed forced update to 10 or whatever. Stuck with that old thinkpad for as long as I could until I said fuck it and bought a gaming computer. The internet adapter on the laptop was giving out anyway. I'm a stubborn ass with stuff like that but once I saw no way to migrate that hard drive to the new computer I settled in and now I actually enjoy using Windows 10
>>99
"extended support" just means they'll probably fix security vulnerabilities if exploits for them become widely available.
I just switched to Lubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite A-505 which I'm not terribly happy with but I'm going to stick with it. Then I dug an old Dell Latitude out of a closet that I had sitting around not using because the guy who gave it to me told me it had a dead hard drive. I installed LXLE on it and use it to take to school. Then I have Ubuntu Server 16.04 on an old dell that I got from the garbage that had a dead hard drive. I just replaced the drive with one I had around the house and now I use it to back up everything I want to save. Everything besides the server is using Linux kernel 4.7.0. The server is running the generic 4.4.0 right now because I can't be bothered to update it. I only updated it on the two laptops because it helped with some hiccuping issues they had when multitasking. The server never has to do more than one thing at a time though so I don't bother it.
The desktop does have a weird issue where the processor fan will speed up to 100% but I'm not sure what is causing it. I've been monitoring the temperature and it is always at idle temperature on both cores when this happens. I don't worry about it since I keep it hidden away in a closet running headless anyway.
I have a desktop that I never use that has a 5820k processor and an R9 290 GPU but I haven't touched it in months since drivers aren't that great and I don't feel like using Windows 10. I may turn it on after this semester to play Civilization again.
>>103
When combined with an up to date version of Common Sense™ that's about all you need on a desktop system.
A fresh install of Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3.
Linux
Slackware 14.2, last updated Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:27:52 GMT
>>101
windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10 have illegal spyware
you should move to linux now
>>109
moving to linux is a pain for vidya addicts though
>>110
use wine, or switch to reactos
M$ Semen (PC), GNU/Linux Debian (TP X200), Antegros Linux (EEE PC 901).
>>104
the fan issues will likely be BIOS related but there are quite a few ACPI knobs you can turn to get to the source. you really should look into it.
TOP LEL
Trisquel Gnu-Linux.
Windows 10 - lock out screen land with fresh install of boyfriends computer, wee. What the hell is wrong with Bill Gates? Fucking A.
I wish I was advanced enough to understand how to do Linux, from what i've read it's like the OS to pcs as Firefox is to browsers. ;-;
Holy fuck, seriously this thread 8 years old?
That's what I say about every single thread in this site
I had a dualboot of Win 7/Ubuntu but I never used Linux that much, eventually I just got rid of the partition on my harddisk to make room for more chinese cartoons.
Might mess around more with linux after I graduate.
>>117
Really not that hard. I'm pretty computer illiterate but I was able to set up a dualboot easily. Plenty of online help.
Posted from GNU Hurd
Slackware -- it's secure, stable, and Real Linux.
>>122
Managing your own dependencies is a bit out there for me, and that's coming from a gentoo user. Might as well just do LFS. What's secure about resolving binary dependencies? No use flags, no thanks!
>>123
If you are unsatisfied with the default libraries, you may as well use sbopkg. It's a terminal-based interface that resolves dependencies, building official .tar.gzs using slackbuilds.
W I N D O W S 2 0 0 0
>>124
I can't part with portage. I used slackware years ago and it wasn't totally unpleasant. I'd certainly prefer it today to something that was difficult to de-bloat.
Arch, stability isn't a concern when you don't have a job!
Debian stable: it's secure, stable, real AND reasonably up to date linux.
Debian stable: it's secure, stable, real AND reasonably up to date linux.
Still using Slackware Stable. Suck it, arch autists.
Windows 7 Professional :^)
Arch
gentoo with x32 abi
Linux Mint / Windows XP dual boot (Windows 10 can kiss my ass)
Debian 8 because 9 oversupports the wifi drivers
Artix, arch but with more *tism.
Debian Jessie.
Debian Strech on my laptop and Windows 7 on my desktop (maily for games).
Windows 10. It's horrible. I was promising myself I would be on linux by now, but I haven't been able to get myself to switch yet.
>>140
I tried it out when I bought my new laptop. Never again. I'm going to wait until W7 dies before committing to Linux. Free software is only getting better with time.
elementary OS
It may not support my laptop's wifi card quite as well as Windows, but it makes up for it in every concievable way.
Dualbooting Slackware and W7 still.
Glad to know I'm not wrong for refusing to upgrade to W10. W8 was awful and W10 looked like a security headache. I guess W10 is better for battery life and performance but it doesn't look like it solves any of my problems with Windows
Gentoo or bust
Takes a while to install but it's the only thing that works.
I've been using inferno OS lately.
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Recently switched to Slackware for no discernible reason other than because I can. Migrated from Ubuntu on this machine and Fedora on another.
macOS
OSX
>>150
It's not called OSX anymore, unless you're on a really old version. Now Apple's OSes are iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS.
>>151
I submitted that post four years ago and it just now showed up.
macOS
FreeBSD on a ThinkPad
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