Which operating system(s) do you use?

[grondilu]

Debian GNU/Linux, unstable branch

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[leoragraves666]

Just tried Win 8.1 today and I can say it works nice so far. Will report in a few days when I find out how stable it is and if everything works.

[rampalija]

Window 7 forever..

Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has done in recent years in my opinion.

8 is better, it's just that 7 was so "groundbreakingly solid" helping restore faith in Microsoft after horrible Vista.
And a huge wave of FUD (almost like a paid job) concerning metro UI above everything sure did not help.
It was so annoying to see tons of comments from peopl who did not even try that thing out yet.

Im not paid, I dont like the store concept apple and android have integrated as well. Windows 8 is big fail in my opinion

lol ghave u tried win 8?!?!  It uses less resources than XP in my oppinion. Only thing i dont like is Metro but you can add a normal start button

Window 8 is faster but I can't find the start button

Just download the plugin

[izzotheschizo]

I tried windows 8 for a whole month on a spare rig.  hated it. put win 7 back on it and sold it. 

[Ecurb123]

Just tried Win 8.1 today and I can say it works nice so far. Will report in a few days when I find out how stable it is and if everything works.

when have the done a point release like that since windows 3.11?

[rampalija]

I tried windows 8 for a whole month on a spare rig.  hated it. put win 7 back on it and sold it. 

As i said  i hate only metro in win 8, but it is much faster than 7 and task manager is much much better in 8

[Ecurb123]

I tried windows 8 for a whole month on a spare rig.  hated it. put win 7 back on it and sold it. 

As i said  i hate only metro in win 8, but it is much faster than 7 and task manager is much much better in 8

I know of one, I wonder how many companies are upgrading to win7 rather than win 8? The one that I know who is going to 7, they are not doing because they don't like 8, but because the project started way before 8 was out and I guess they feel it would be too costly to change now. 

[beetcoin]

this reminds me that i haven't formatted my win7 computer in about 7 months.. i think i'm about due for it. knowing that windows is not a clean os, i feel dirty after not wiping it out.

[izzotheschizo]

task manager is much much better in 8

I disagree

It is easier to debug what software isnt multi threading correctly with the win7 tm


Flash performance is crap on firefox.  switched over to chrome and cant no amount of flash make me lag.

[rampalija]

Lets look in the past of Microsoft and Windows. As everyone notices eveery second windows is not accepted by ppl.

Win 95 not so god
Win 98  very nice windows, not so much difference in look
Win 2000  crap
Win XP i dont have to say anything
Win Vista crap pure crap
Win 7 dont have to say anything
and again
Win 8 and againd very large percent of PC users says it is crap, but i dont aggree

[mb300sd]

In order from most installs to least: Windows Server 2012/2008 R2, Debian Linux, Windows 7, 8 (with Start8), OSX in VMWare

On physical hardware:
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter on Server running Hyper-V
Windows 8 on Laptop running VMWare
Windows 7 on Tablet (soon to be upgraded to Win8)

[beetcoin]

Lets look in the past of Microsoft and Windows. As everyone notices eveery second windows is not accepted by ppl.

Win 95 not so god
Win 98  very nice windows, not so much difference in look
Win 2000  crap
Win XP i dont have to say anything
Win Vista crap pure crap
Win 7 dont have to say anything
and again
Win 8 and againd very large percent of PC users says it is crap, but i dont aggree

people loved win 95, win 98, xp, and win 7.. what are u talking about? only 2000, vista and 8 have been hated. the problem is that microsoft is trying to force innovation, instead of looking at what people actually want and giving it to them. problem is, there really isn't that much more that the typical person wants from a PC o/s.

[mb300sd]

Win8...
kernel = awesome
ui = beer shits

[deepceleron]

Title pretty much says it all. Which operating systems and versions/distros do you use?

I can answer this question for all forum users. As could be predicted, the most used here is Win7 x64.

Here's the OS part of the user agent for one day of web hits to this image, which is in some thread on this forum:


Android 2.3.6; Linux; Opera Mobi/ADR-1309251116
Android; Mobile; rv:25.0
compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0
iPad; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X
iPad; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X
iPad; CPU OS 6_1_2 like Mac OS X
iPad; CPU OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X
iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X
iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X
iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_2 like Mac OS X
iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X
iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X
iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X
Linux; Android 4.1.1; HTC6435LVW Build/JRO03C
Linux; Android 4.2.2; Galaxy Nexus Build/JDQ39E
Linux; Android 4.2.2; HTC One Build/JDQ39
Linux; Android 4.3; Nexus 4 Build/JWR66Y
Linux; U; Android 4.1.1; en-ca; HTC One S Build/JRO03C
Linux; U; Android 4.2.2; de-de; Nexus 7 Build/JDQ39
Linux; U; Android 4.2.2; de-de; Nexus 7 Build/JDQ39
Linux; U; Android 4.3; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/JWR66Y
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8
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Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0
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Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0
Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0
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Windows NT 5.1
Windows NT 5.1
Windows NT 5.1
Windows NT 5.1; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.0
Windows NT 6.1
Windows NT 6.1
Windows NT 6.1
Windows NT 6.1
Windows NT 6.1
Windows NT 6.1
Windows NT 6.1; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
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Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
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Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64
Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:25.0
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Windows NT 6.3; WOW64
Windows NT 6.3; WOW64
Windows NT 6.3; WOW64
Windows NT 6.3; WOW64
Windows NT 6.3; WOW64
Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:25.0
Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:25.0
X11; Linux i686
X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0
X11; Linux i686; rv:25.0
X11; Linux x86_64
X11; Linux x86_64
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X11; Linux x86_64
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X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0
X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2
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X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0


Windows NT 6.0 = Windows Vista or SBS 2008
Windows NT 6.1 = Windows 7
Windows NT 6.2 = Windows 8
Windows NT 6.3 = Windows 8.1
Macs in second place, with Linux, iPads and iPhones, and Android also a putting in a good showing.


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[PrintMule]

Lets look in the past of Microsoft and Windows. As everyone notices eveery second windows is not accepted by ppl.

Win 95 not so god
Win 98  very nice windows, not so much difference in look
Win 2000  crap
Win XP i dont have to say anything
Win Vista crap pure crap
Win 7 dont have to say anything
and again
Win 8 and againd very large percent of PC users says it is crap, but i dont aggree

I'm actually writing from win 2000 now and I must say it was good for it's time. Quite stable, if you count out hive/registry overflow bug, which was never fixed and can kill your system regularly if you are unprepared. Also you forgot windows ME which was utter crap.

[ajax3592]

Windows 7 for now, its much much faster than Vista. But then security issues are with every version.
Windows 8 is such a waste, it looks like a Mobile OS running on a desktop, so useless.

[Feneusens]

Window 7, window 8 is crap

[easynote]

Windows 7 for now, its much much faster than Vista. But then security issues are with every version.
Windows 8 is such a waste, it looks like a Mobile OS running on a desktop, so useless.

You are afraid of new changes? ahahah

All people say that... I say that in begining, now if i use a win7 pc i dont know where are the things, because with win 8 its much easyer and quickly

[SlipperySlope]

Was running Lubuntu, but now running vanilla Ubuntu on development box and server.

When I occasionally need Windows 7, I launch it in VirtualBox.

Two years ago I ran three barebone miners on Mint.

I also have an Mac mini at my vacation home that I needed last year for iOS development. While there I usually launch Ubuntu, again from VirtualBox.

[Corenin]

Window 7...