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Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?

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Re: Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?

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Post by jkrems »

dualogy wrote: post #16

I've been jumping between the big three every other year now over the last decade (OSX when I was into MacBookPros, Linux or Win when I was into other hardware vendors). They all have their own unique little annoying-quirks and favourable strengths. I've found that when your environment is say, Sublime Text + a browser + a command line, the outer OS matters surprisingly little.

Really curious (I only have second-hand experience with it) - you made cmd.exe or cygwin work for you? I keep hearing from people who tried it that they gave up after a while, switching to an OS with native bash/zsh.

Re: Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?

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Post by dysoco »

Linux and Windows, the former mainly.

I have both installed in both my PCs (Desktop and Laptop) and I boot into whatever I need to do the work (Or gaming) I need.

Although lately I rarely boot Windows, and if I do: It's for playing some games.

Re: Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?

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Post by JeremyMorgan »

This is one I'm really curious about. I triple boot, but most of my time is spent in Linuxm but most of the time I'm on a PC I'm trying to be productive.

For me I had to vote for all of them:

Linux - 70% - Development and experimentation

OSX - 20%- Development and Leisure browsing

Windows 10% - .Net development or running something that wont run elsewhere

Other - Something I'm playing around with, FreeBSD, Unix etc.

Unless you count my time at work, then Windows is much higher, as I'm forced to use it there.

Re: Poll: What is your primary desktop OS?

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Post by mikestew »

OS X because it obviously is useful for Mac and iOS work, but works well for everything else (except Windows, obviously, but a VM fixes that). XAMPP gives me a setup for playing around with LAMP, and iTerm and a Linode gets me going for dedicated Linux work. None of that would matter if I had to run OS X on crap hardware, but MacBooks make for some of the best laptops. The downside is that if you DO want to run on lesser hardware, you're out of luck without a lot of hassle. (I've done hackintosh in the past, and though fun to hack around, if your time is worth more than minimum wage you're not saving money.)
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