Comparison of operating systems

[jackg]

What is the best and most common operating systems that people are using?

[Vod]

I can tell you right now it's Windows 7.

Even with Microsoft pushing Windows 8, and now FORCING Windows 10....

[Qointum]

I prefer Mac because of its unix core, great for development. No plans to upgrade from Windows 7, I only use it for gaming anyway.

[Ashwell John]

I like to use Windows 7.

[jjacob]

Ubuntu works perfectly for me. 

[Ashwell John]

Ubuntu works perfectly for me. 

What is this?

[dragansk1]

I must say that Windows Vista was the worst Windows i have ever used. The Windows XP was far better that the Vista, so i got back to the XP after the awful experience with the Vista. I think that Vista was a very bad product by Microsoft.
Now I am using windows 7. It is the best for me now.

[RodeoX]

I think of non-Linux options as a joke. I would not even consider using BTC on a winxx or mac.

[Lauda]

I think of non-Linux options as a joke. I would not even consider using BTC on a winxx or mac.

Well that's a bit over the line. I would not call it a joke. I do not see a problem with using BTC (spending wallet) on Windows as long as proper security measures are set and the user has experience/knowledge. As Vod said, currently most people are using Windows 7 but a surprisingly high amount is still using XP. Windows 8/8.1 is okay, but Windows 10 is horrible for BTC.

Ubuntu works perfectly for me. 

What is this?

Ubuntu is a Debian-based variant of Linux with unity as it's desktop environment. Aside from computers they're trying to migrate the OS to smartphones as well. Ubuntu is free as well.

[RodeoX]

I think of non-Linux options as a joke. I would not even consider using BTC on a winxx or mac.

Well that's a bit over the line. I would not call it a joke. I do not see a problem with using BTC (spending wallet) on Windows as long as proper security measures are set and the user has experience/knowledge. As Vod said, currently most people are using Windows 7 but a surprisingly high amount is still using XP. Windows 8/8.1 is okay, but Windows 10 is horrible for BTC.

I know that is provocative, but windows is not open source and so I have no idea what it is doing or who has the backdoor keys. I would assume China has access to all win computers as well as all spy agencies. I try to ONLY run open source software that I compile myself. Otherwise I would be operating on hope, trust and hearsay.  That is not the bitcoin way. I like to operate on math.

[mallard]

I think of non-Linux options as a joke. I would not even consider using BTC on a winxx or mac.

*BSD? FreeBSD (and probably OpenBSD) are great server distributions. You could run a Bitcoin node on one.

[herzmeister]

With Antergos / Arch Linux my distro-hopping finally ended.

[Fraxinus]

Windows is a really good choice so I guess the vote goes for it.

[Lauda]

I know that is provocative, but windows is not open source and so I have no idea what it is doing or who has the backdoor keys. I would assume China has access to all win computers as well as all spy agencies. I try to ONLY run open source software that I compile myself. Otherwise I would be operating on hope, trust and hearsay.  That is not the bitcoin way. I like to operate on math.

While this is definitely way too much for the average man, or even the average tech savvy person, I understand your point of view. Without the source code you can not tell what could be inside of a OS/software. It is very hard to determine if something is fishy with it as well. Most people will find you too paranoid though. I know that there are a lot of weird things with windows (e.g .NSAKEY).

Windows is a really good choice so I guess the vote goes for it.

Good at best if compares to Linux.

[Gervais]

Obviously windows is the most popular but there are several threads about what operating systems people use already.

Ubuntu works perfectly for me. 

What is this?

L2G.

[hmblm1245]

I use a bunch of flavors so its hard to say.

[Buffer Overflow]

Arch Linux on my desktop and laptop. CentOS as the host on my server with virtualization, and various linux operating systems as the guest virtual machines.

[beepboopbeep]

Windows 7

[Sir Alpha_goy]

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[Pingu]

Mac and Ubuntu are great for their lack of viruses. Too easy to get them on windows machines even with ant-virus so that's why I don't like them.