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September 16, 2015, 03:49:42 PM |
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What is the best and most common operating systems that people are using?
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Vod
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September 16, 2015, 03:53:47 PM |
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I can tell you right now it's Windows 7.
Even with Microsoft pushing Windows 8, and now FORCING Windows 10....
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September 16, 2015, 03:58:00 PM |
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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.
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Ashwell John
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September 17, 2015, 01:37:03 AM |
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I like to use Windows 7.
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September 17, 2015, 02:04:02 AM |
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Ubuntu works perfectly for me. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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Ashwell John
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September 22, 2015, 03:05:49 AM |
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Ubuntu works perfectly for me. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) What is this?
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September 25, 2015, 01:27:54 PM |
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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.
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September 25, 2015, 01:39:25 PM |
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I think of non-Linux options as a joke. I would not even consider using BTC on a winxx or mac.
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September 25, 2015, 03:17:15 PM |
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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. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) 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.
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September 25, 2015, 03:26:24 PM |
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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.
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mallard
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September 25, 2015, 03:28:53 PM |
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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.
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September 25, 2015, 03:31:35 PM |
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With Antergos / Arch Linux my distro-hopping finally ended.
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September 25, 2015, 04:30:03 PM |
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Windows is a really good choice so I guess the vote goes for it.
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September 26, 2015, 08:55:30 AM |
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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.
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September 26, 2015, 11:51:14 AM |
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Obviously windows is the most popular but there are several threads about what operating systems people use already. Ubuntu works perfectly for me. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) What is this? L2G.
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September 27, 2015, 03:39:59 AM |
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I use a bunch of flavors so its hard to say.
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September 27, 2015, 03:36:14 PM |
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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.
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September 27, 2015, 04:04:35 PM |
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Windows 7
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September 27, 2015, 04:12:27 PM |
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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.
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