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

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by amock » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:04 AM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #13

Arch Linux. The control of Gentoo without sitting around for five days while everything is rebuilt.

Back when I was compiling Linux on a 120MHz PA-7200 I would literally wait for days to compile KDE and a few other related packages, but with a modern CPU I now wait only a few minutes. I'm not sure that Gentoo has any real advantages over Arch but it's pleasant to use and it makes me feel good to tune my compiler flags and rebuild everything.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by chuckchen » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:05 AM UTC

Windows XP & Windows 7 & Ubuntu & CentOS

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by joshmanders » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:07 AM UTC

Home: Windows XP, Work: Windows Vista, Laptop: Windows 7, Fun: Ubuntu.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by kristianp » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:09 AM UTC

Windows 7 at work, Ubuntu at home.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by firemandave » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:09 AM UTC

I'm dual booting Slackware 13.1 amd64 and Windows 7 Home Premium. I just picked up a new job as a PC tech / web designer. My data recovery work is done in Windows, since most of my repairs are on Windows computers, and it's easier to work on a local LAMP server instead of borking a staging server.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by joshmanders » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:10 AM UTC

cead_ite wrote: post #21

Chrome OS...

Try out Jolicloud? I don't have a CR-48 and so I tried installing Jolicloud on my laptop but it wouldn't recognize my wireless, other than that, it seemed cool.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by clvv » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:11 AM UTC

I just can't imagine having Windows on my computers again. *nix(especially Linux) feel much more user friendly to me. It is absolutely uncomfortable using Windows when sometimes I just have to(at school, fixing somebody else's computer etc.) Arch Linux is great. Ubuntu will be better if it has a rolling release.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by dustingetz » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:12 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. ;-)

CEO replies to student: LOVE hackernews!

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:12 AM UTC

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Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by seany » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 5:13 AM UTC

osx/ubuntu/win7 more or less interchangeably though i've been installing cygwin on my windows machines for years... not sure i could use it with out it installed any more.