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

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

#81

Post by terrywang » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 6:10 AM UTC

Linux (Ubuntu & Arch Linux) 80% (both @ work & home) Mac OS X 10.6 10% ( @ home) Windows 7 & XP/Server 2003 10% ( @ work, not my machines)

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by glenjamin » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 6:15 AM UTC

dustingetz wrote: post #58

jonkelly wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

CEO replies to student: LOVE hackernews!

Pretty sure that reply chain is a reddit-esqe joke.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by antimatter » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 6:15 AM UTC

Dual booting Ubuntu/Windows 7 on desktop. Mac OS X on the laptop.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by glenjamin » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 6:18 AM UTC

Stormbringer wrote: post #64

clvv wrote: post #57

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.

Something that occurs to me is this: Just about every place that I've worked with Windows has had its own ' special ' set of restrictions. Where I'm at now for instance in the Windows menu is an option "Switch User" but it is disabled. For various reasons, I need to do a lot of user switching, and I find myself desperately missing the OS X fast-user switching. Having to log out and log in all the time is a massive PI…

Have you tried asking your IT dept why it's disabled, and if you could have it turned on?

If it's actually adversely affecting your work then it's worth doing something about it.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by jsz0 » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 6:23 AM UTC

I'd love to hear from the 3 people who picked NetBSD.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

#86

Post by kind-kid » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 6:39 AM UTC

ubuntu Windows 7

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

#87

Post by whatusername » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 6:51 AM UTC

Stormbringer wrote: post #78

Zakuzaa wrote: post #75

iOS?

// puts on beard and sandals // Hey kid, here's 50c, go buy yourself a real computer. :D

Actually -- if Mac OSX is a certified Unix. And iOS is a variant of OSX. Does that mean that my phone is running an "official" UNIX?

Because that makes Zakuzaa one of those "condescending unix users"

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by JackLeo » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 7:59 AM UTC

1997-2009 - win 95, 98, xo, vista, 7 RC. 2009 - up to now - Ubuntu starting from 9.04

Never going back to windows or switching to mac!

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by kejinlu » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 8:14 AM UTC

forbes wrote: post #15

I use Emacs. I've had my session running for so long I can't even remember what my underlying OS is.

Vim

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

#90

Post by GertG » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 8:23 AM UTC

Windows XP for work, Ubuntu and Linux Mint for fun. (Both work and fun being programming...)