Poll: What is your primary operating system • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by marshray » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 6:38 AM UTC

ZephyrP wrote: post #418

tseabrooks wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm the only one... But as a professional developer working on everything from device drivers, embedded systems, up to your average LAMP stack and other web frameworks the "Freedom" of the operating system is worth exactly bupkis to me, ziltch, zero, nada. There are a whole host of reasons to use one OS over the other but this "Free as in Speech" is simply not a very good one. I'm far, FAR, more concerned about…

I love these kind of responses! Help support your local exploit developer and use a non-free operating systems and browsers!

I'm not one who has produced a many exploits in comparison to the real pros, but if I had to find a hole in an OS or browser these days I'd much go after Linux or Firefox than Windows.

3rd party apps on Windows are a different matter however.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by marshray » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 6:42 AM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #283

timClicks wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you able to explain the term "lambda user"?

Someone who does a lot of lisp?

A user who introduces a new variable binding environment?

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by brownbat » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 7:30 AM UTC

Osiris wrote: post #25

I'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…

> Linux support is "illogical and pretty much pointless."

Excellent troll.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by zvrba » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 7:38 AM UTC

richurd wrote: post #143

I was forced to choose "other" since my operating system (GNU) was not listed. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by…

> and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX

GNU defaults to NOT being POSIX-compliant, which makes most of GNU software a PITA to build on platforms which default to being POSIX-compliant.

Also, except for emacs, GNU is a failure. gcc we use today is an egcs fork, and the Linux kernel could have worked just as well with BSD userland.

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by krollew » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 7:40 AM UTC

Linux is my OS of choice, but I have nothing against Windows 7. Unlike XP and earlier it can be normaly used from non-root account, there can be set nice POSIX-like programming environment. Maybe one day, but I need get more RAM for my machine at home. xD

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by bitcracker » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 8:21 AM UTC

bnegreve wrote: post #108

bitcracker wrote: post #43

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

I'd rather say Linux hacker then, Linux in 1992 was pretty basic.

Yes, but it was fun to configure the modem and to calculate monitor modelines to get X11 working :-)

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by bitcracker » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 8:26 AM UTC

ing33k wrote: post #156

bitcracker wrote: post #43

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

OMG, I was just 3 when you began to use Linux. I would like to know if its some sort of addiction to use Linux ? the reason I am asking is, I am using Linux since 6 years and I think I am getting addicted to it .

The awesome thing about Linux is that I got a Unix like system for free (Windows 3.1 was mainstream at that time), and that I can do in Linux whatever I want to do because it is open source. Linux hasn't lost its fascination although I am a bit disappointed about the current misleading too much tablet oriented developments (Gnome 3, Unity).

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by almost » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 9:19 AM UTC

jsz0 wrote: post #401

technomancy wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right now I'm using XMonad, but there are a number of other tiling WMs under X that actually manage windows for you instead of placing that burden on the user.

There are a number of OSX utilities that do this well.

Know any that don't really really suck?

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by nickik » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 9:24 AM UTC

yangyang wrote: post #263

nickik wrote: post #140

Nothing can get me away from my Arch Linux with XMonad as a Windows Manager. I love it.

I run the same. That - plus tmux, Emacs and Chromium - is just about perfect. If I wasn't tied to Lightroom for photography I'd get rid of the mac.

I use firefox and urxvt with client/server

Re: Poll: What is your primary operating system

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Post by gjm11 » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 9:30 AM UTC

apgwoz wrote: post #406

apgwoz wrote: post #172

I choose other because I use GNU/Linux

Since when did it become not OK to side with the FSF? This, (i.e. the "Hacker" News crowd) has really set a new low bar.

Saying "I use GNU/Linux": OK. Saying "I don't use Linux and am going to distort your poll results because you didn't use the terminology I prefer": not OK.

And, honestly, if getting a few downvotes for some random thing is "setting a new low bar" then something's wrong with your calibration.