A bit picky about my Linux desktop experience. I check in with Ubuntu at every .10 release to see if it yet passes my picky standards. It was getting much, much closer in 2012. I'm actually looking forward to this year's.
Poll: What OS do you currently use?
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#52Upvoted Mac OS X but really there should be iOS on there too (and Android for good measure) since I'm on there doing stuff (and sometimes it's real work!) almost as much as I am OS X!
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#53Hacker News audience are Mac-OS-X-ers.
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#54Debian (wheezy stable - latex [VM]; aptosid - surfing\reading\developing; raspbian - testing hardware)
Sabayon (surfing\reading\developing)
Fedora (packaging [VM])
Gentoo (server)
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Plan 9 ([VM] - cpu server; 9pi terminal - developing)
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Android (tablet)
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RockBox (Sansa Clip)
Stupid cellular brick (Nokia's s40 Symbian OS I think)
Whatever the Xerox printer is running
Whatever the Panasonic camera is running
Windows (car's IVI)
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No Mac, Ubuntu or Emacs.
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#55Crunchbang #! (Debian)
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#56I use different OSes for different purposes. I use Windows in Parallels on a Mac, alongside several other Macs running various versions of OSX. I have a FreeBSD 9.1 server and an Arch Linux server, as well as a bunch of VPSes I use in my cluster. I also have a laptop I use to run AROS and an older laptop and a couple of PCs that run Plan9. To be fair the PCs and laptop are mostly switched off, I mainly used them for…
AROS is an Amiga thing, right? What makes you want to run that in 2013? Just wondering what I may have missed, as a former Amiga owner.
I reluctantly started to move away from the Amiga as a primary OS in the late 90s and finished some time in the mid noughties. I've kept going back to AROS in the hope that I can get something Amiga-like going, but there's so much more that needs to be done to make it usable on a modern laptop.
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#57I see one vote for Other without any comment explaining which other OS it is. I'd be interested to see what pops up: Android, ChromeOS and FirefoxOS are really Linux variants; I suppose iOS stands on its own. VMS is certainly in use but probably not on the desktop. I suppose there are some Solaris folks...what else?
iOS is OS X. I'd bet it's someone who either didn't realize that the two popular mobile OS's are variants of common desktops, or someone who is playing with something like BeOS or Plan 9 or some other more obscure OS. Could be someone who is writing their own.
Android is not really a variant of a desktop, it just uses the kernel, which is not desktop specific in any way, and everything above (from the libc up) is either custom or non-desktop specific.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
AROS is an Amiga thing, right? What makes you want to run that in 2013? Just wondering what I may have missed, as a former Amiga owner.
I reluctantly started to move away from the Amiga as a primary OS in the late 90s and finished some time in the mid noughties. I've kept going back to AROS in the hope that I can get something Amiga-like going, but there's so much more that needs to be done to make it usable on a modern laptop.
I loved Amiga as much as the next guy… I remember installing a Kickstart ROM as a fourteen year old. But what desktop paradigms does Amiga offer now that aren’t present in other OS’s?
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#59Windows 8 with Virtual Box running Ubuntu. I do all my dev work in the VM, and everything else in Windows. I used to be a die-hard OS X user, but then I realized I could build a beast of a desktop for less than half the price of a Pro.
Win 8 over Hackintosh?
I'm very open to it, but never pursued it. Perhaps I'll build one in the future. I do use the Apple Wireless Keyboard so I'm almost there :)
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#60Need to add the following: Solaris Other Unix iOS Android I use the following: Windows 7, iOS 6, Solaris 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, CentOS 6.x, Mac OS X 10.6.8, Android
Android ought to fall under Linux (Other), but he should still add it. He should also separate GNU/Linux (other) and BSD/Linux categories; see how many people are using BSD userlands like obase and magenta. So,
GNU/Linux (other)
BSD/Linux
Android
Linux (other userland)