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Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by zheng » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:49 AM UTC

pavanky wrote: post #23

zheng wrote: post #18

I run windows, but always run a Linux VM in which I do all of my dev work, and have an OS X laptop which would be a linux laptop, but Logic/Final Cut Pro keep it that way. Right tool for the right job, IMO.

Any particular reason you have a Windows host + linux VM instead of the other way around ? Personal experience has been Linux hosts + Windows VM performs better than the other way around.

Windows handles media much better than linux. I have a linux media server as well, and while I like it for somethings, getting Blu-Ray/DVD/MP3/CD/Netflix/etc. working in it is not one of those things. Windows just works in that sense. Also games, although this is more of a theoretical bonus as I rarely play anything.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by tutnix » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:50 AM UTC

Mostly using Linux for day to day work. Sometimes with vms for windows or other linux installs.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by bitcracker » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:51 AM UTC

Happy Linux user since 1992. Sometimes I also use Windows in VM for customers.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by d4v1dv00 » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:51 AM UTC

i am living in Linux for work. home and now with Android without Microsoft/Mac OS X since 3 years ago

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by javert » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:52 AM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #16

javert wrote: post #9

Probably should have allowed an option for *BSD. I suppose "other Unix variant" is sort of approximately the same thing, but the former would be more clear.

Actually, I'd be curious what Nix people are using other than GNU/Linux and BSD. Solaris? Unix proper - does anybody still really use that?

I doubt anybody on HN uses any of {solaris, HPUX, AIX, Xenix, ...}.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by mikiem » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:53 AM UTC

Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu laptop, iPad, 95.5% of our servers are Linux or BSD. In our office, we have one old windows xp box on P4 hardware to remote desktop into for various stuff that cant be done on Linux or is significant easier on WinXP....rare.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by richbradshaw » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:53 AM UTC

OSX is the only operating system that can run iTunes, Office, Photoshop/Fireworks, Ruby, Python, bash scripts, Apache, Mysql without virtualization or any weird and unfun hacks (yeah, cygwin, I'm looking at you!).

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by cageface » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:53 AM UTC

stanleydrew wrote: post #32

pavanky wrote: post #12

I am not from the valley and it is heart-warming to see Linux beat out OSX. Especially considering the number of mac books I have seen engineers carry about, the couple of times I have been there.

Some of us run Linux on our MacBooks.

I'm kind of indifferent to OS X but the Mac laptop hardware is so nice, particularly the trackpad, that I'm likely to stay an Apple customer for the foreseeable future.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by giis » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:53 AM UTC

For more than a decade,Its Linux for me

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by kolev » Mon, Apr 02, 2012, 7:54 AM UTC

For pure development (unless you're developing an iOS or OS X apps), Linux is definitely the top choice. For office work (Microsoft Office, Visio, Outlook, Lync, etc.) unfortunately Windows still bests (OmniGraffle and Office for Mac are decent, but still no match), for everything else - OS X is definitely the best choice.