Poll: What OS do you currently use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by kejinlu » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:48 AM UTC

cead_ite wrote: post #21

Chrome OS...

Oh my god?

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by erickhill » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:49 AM UTC

jonkelly wrote: post #14

joshes wrote: post #4

Student and engineer, here: OS X on both my desktop and notebook.

CEO here, so naturally Win 7 to power Outlook, PowerPoint and IE. ;-)

Designer here, so OS X at home and work, DropBox across the board for files (hence making the laptops stationary), but I also use Outlook, PowerPoint - and check IE7/8 using Parallels when I absolutely have to. But I prefer Chrome. ;)

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by cellularmitosis » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:50 AM UTC

OS X on my netbook (a hackintosh). Debian on my home server.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by michaelcgorman » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:50 AM UTC

cead_ite wrote: post #21

Chrome OS...

I use a CR-48 for email/Twitter/Facebook/HN/etc., and everything else when I'm not at home.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by xpaulbettsx » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:51 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #12

caryme wrote: post #10

Mostly OS X, plus ubuntu on my netbook. I suppose I'm going to have to get used to Windows when I work at Microsoft this summer... (haven't really used Windows since XP)

I dare you to work in VirtualBox at Microsoft :)

You could definitely do it, it'd just get annoying - no benefit to a setup like that.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by leif » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:52 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #12

caryme wrote: post #10

Mostly OS X, plus ubuntu on my netbook. I suppose I'm going to have to get used to Windows when I work at Microsoft this summer... (haven't really used Windows since XP)

I dare you to work in VirtualBox at Microsoft :)

I ran freebsd in virtualbox at microsoft, and nobody cared.

edit: I should admit it would be nearly impossible to actually work in virtualbox (I was on the windows team, ymmv), but you can run it for whatever crap you want to do that isn't programming or email or editing docs

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by thought_alarm » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:52 AM UTC

1983-90: DOS 3.3 and ProDOS

1990-95: MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and OS/2 Warp.

1995-97: Windows 95

1997-2001: Windows NT 4.0 (Came free with Visual Studio 6.0)

1998-2005: Various versions of Red Hat, for both desktop and server.

2001-2007: Windows XP

2005-2011: OS X (Latest Version)

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by marshray » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:52 AM UTC

Etch-a-sketch.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:53 AM UTC

scythe wrote: post #8

FreeBSD desktop user here. We're as rare as the dodo, apparently.

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Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:55 AM UTC

trotsky wrote: post #26

rufugee wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CIO here, so naturally Ubuntu on both desktop and laptop ;-)

CPA here, so naturally VAX/VMS on the minicomputer ;-)

CLO here, so naturally a typewriter ;-)