I can't hope to answer this question. My home desktop is a Windows 7 box, my laptop is a Macbook Air running Lion, I own both a Xoom and an iPad and use both regularly and my work machine is a Linux box...there needs to be another option on this Poll...YES!
Poll: What is your primary operating system
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#82I've been using Windows pretty much since version 3.1 (though will some time on OS/2 as well) as my primary OS. I have, of course, used Linux, though mostly for servers and not a full-time primary OS. I also have a Chromebook running Chrome OS. Recently, I switched jobs and my team uses Macs so over the last few months my primary work OS is now Mac OS X, while I still use Windows at home. One thing I have discovered…
Can I somehow upvote you twice?
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#84I gave Chrome OS a vote, just because I felt bad for it.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious, how difficult is it to set one up? Do you encounter many issues performing your day to day work? I've been eyeing it for a while and I had it running on my home server for a time but I didn't think it was quite ready to be my primary OS. I generally use Arch Linux at the moment, mainly because I like the configurability and frequent package updates.
Colin is the security officer for FreeBSD. I doubt he encountered many problems setting it up;)
I may know security, but there are a great many developers who know more arcane details about FreeBSD than I do.
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#86I could not leave Windows for photoshop and Excel. Now that the photoshop runs smoothly in VM and Calc is comparable, made a switch to ubuntu.
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#87I've been using Windows pretty much since version 3.1 (though will some time on OS/2 as well) as my primary OS. I have, of course, used Linux, though mostly for servers and not a full-time primary OS. I also have a Chromebook running Chrome OS. Recently, I switched jobs and my team uses Macs so over the last few months my primary work OS is now Mac OS X, while I still use Windows at home. One thing I have discovered…
I would just like to add that there is a valid reason why Linux or the *BSDs are superior to Windows or OS X - they are Free. As in Speech. And I'm sad this doesn't even warrant a mention.
How much does the price tag matters when you are a developer or professional that gets paid $150/hour?
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#88Debian Stable since 2009, before then I used other Linux distros and Windows.
I'll admit I was quite a fan boy in my teens, but now I really just use Debian because it's what I'm used to, or most comfortable with.
I think GNU/Linux in general is a fantastic development environment.
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#89Arch Linux. Been a fulltime nixer for a few years now. No reason to use anything else. I'd miss the freedom too much.
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#90FreeBSD. Only desktop I've used since 2004.
I'm curious, how difficult is it to set one up? Do you encounter many issues performing your day to day work? I've been eyeing it for a while and I had it running on my home server for a time but I didn't think it was quite ready to be my primary OS. I generally use Arch Linux at the moment, mainly because I like the configurability and frequent package updates.
Depends on what you expect, really. Setting up isn't much harder than, say, an Arch.
Hardware support is generally ok, though if you want 3D acceleration, Nvidia is about the only safe option (ATI is absent, Intel can be tricky or non-supported, depending).
Keeping 3rd party programs up to date can be a real pain, though. I haven't found a way to avoid long compilations, occasional breakage, and weird library issues. Compiling Firefox can be annoying.
(I run FreeBSD as my home server where basically all my data and important programs live, and a variety of other "throwaway" OSes in my day to day use)