windows or linux

[Baxta]

i never use linux so i dont know which better
all my rigs run on windows and till now i dont find problem or trouble with windows so i stay

but if you were told that your liner miners could get x2, x5, x10 more than on Windows? Would you decide then to try to mine on Linux?

If that's really the case, why more people using windows instead Linux?

Main reasons:
1. Because it's much more difficult to configure mining on Linux.
2. Many simply do not know the advantages of Linux in the mining.
3. Mining of not all coins gives the advantage in Linux x3-x10

[Baxta]

I use windows, my only concern are the god damn Windows updates... After every one, my rig seems to get a new big problem. Normally its GPUs missing, but have been other shit aswell. Once or twice i had to format the entire rig. Stay away from the updates!

You can disable Windows updates. At me when I still used for mining Windows, at updatings, my farms were turned off.

[killerelite]

In my own opinion windows is a whole lot easier for newbies and there are much more tutorials for windows available and its easier to setup moniotor and control but thats just my bised opinion cause I couldnt setup linux remote monitor and some why my miners got curropted after some power failures so keep all my rigs on windows , got many free keys due to university :p

[Baxta]

In my own opinion windows is a whole lot easier for newbies and there are much more tutorials for windows available and its easier to setup moniotor and control but thats just my bised opinion cause I couldnt setup linux remote monitor and some why my miners got curropted after some power failures so keep all my rigs on windows , got many free keys due to university :p

I think with any system you can understand it would be the desire and motivation. Especially when there is an Internet and search engines at hand. The main thing is not to be lazy.

[MarkAz]

I've run both - and there's pluses and minuses to each.  It used to be that the big advantage to Windows was driver support, but they're much closer these days.  Maintaining a bunch of machines is much easier if it's linux (IMO), and it tends to be much more light-weight in terms of disk size and memory footprint.  The biggest plus I think with Linux is a bit of a one-time thing, but I can have a new system up and mining from the same image, even if I change motherboards, etc - I have 3 classes of machines in my mine, and they all run the same Linux image.  With Windows you need a different one for each machine, and on system you have to wait for it to detect all the cards, which depending on how many you have can take a while.

That being said, if you're more comfortable with Windows then do it - there's also more 'exotic' things for Windows, like better profit-switching software, etc.  But then on the Linux side you have about a bunch of different custom miner OS versions and even more forks.

In the end it's Linux for me - just easier to deal with, but I also run my own OS image, I don't run any of the ones others have released, although I've played with them.

[MarkAz]

I'm considering changing my Windows OS to something line Hive OS - anyone tried it?

It's next on my list to play with, I really like what they've done with their HTML interface, and their ability to group machines, etc - looks slick.

[Corsa1r]

Well, I use linux for everything except my mining rigs

Biggest reason was I tweaked a lot and undervolt and underclock to get most energy efficient settings and that was easy to get into on windows, when I found best config I saw no reason to flash cards and install linux, I just kept mining as is because why change when it works, well, most of the time works

[btcneodev]

I see no problem with linux, you must also compare resources usage for linux and windows, obviously windows uses more and it could lead to more power drawn. Anyway I still prefer linux, maybe you can try to compile those great miner to linux by yourself.

[patofet]

I tried both systems, if you have time to configure linux with no dub but if you want a fast configuration windows

[Baxta]

I've run both - and there's pluses and minuses to each.  It used to be that the big advantage to Windows was driver support, but they're much closer these days.  Maintaining a bunch of machines is much easier if it's linux (IMO), and it tends to be much more light-weight in terms of disk size and memory footprint.  The biggest plus I think with Linux is a bit of a one-time thing, but I can have a new system up and mining from the same image, even if I change motherboards, etc - I have 3 classes of machines in my mine, and they all run the same Linux image.  With Windows you need a different one for each machine, and on system you have to wait for it to detect all the cards, which depending on how many you have can take a while.

That being said, if you're more comfortable with Windows then do it - there's also more 'exotic' things for Windows, like better profit-switching software, etc.  But then on the Linux side you have about a bunch of different custom miner OS versions and even more forks.

In the end it's Linux for me - just easier to deal with, but I also run my own OS image, I don't run any of the ones others have released, although I've played with them.

You probably have a very big skill in Linux, I never used Linux until the moment when I did not know that using the optiminer program for Linux, I can mine up to 10 times more (I'm not kidding). This was the decisive argument and I installed Linux ubuntu, though I still figured out how to run the optiminer program with the system startup.

[unique83]

Which coin can you mine 10 times better on linux than on windows and what cards do you use?
Can you mine zcash with nvidia 10 times better?

[Jr.Sasha0209]

You can run Windows for free just have limited customization options which you don’t need for mining anyway. There is nothing wrong with running either one just depends on what you are more comfortable with and works for you.

I use Windows in all my farms, until questions arise, although they say that Linux is much better in the mining! Perhaps the other day I will collect new farms and already put the linux!