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Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by ratsbane »

thought_alarm wrote: post #37

1983-90: DOS 3.3 and ProDOS 1990-95: MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and OS/2 Warp. 1995-97: Windows 95 1997-2001: Windows NT 4.0 (Came free with Visual Studio 6.0) 1998-2005: Various versions of Red Hat, for both desktop and server. 2001-2007: Windows XP 2005-2011: OS X (Latest Version)

That's almost identical to my timeline (currently a mix of OS X and Ubuntu.) I wonder what is next. In your timeline you've been on OS X for 6 years and the longest duration you list for any OS is 7. I wonder if I'll ever use Android, iOS, or Chrome enough to consider it primary? And if not, what?

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by Stormbringer »

clvv wrote: post #57

I just can't imagine having Windows on my computers again. *nix(especially Linux) feel much more user friendly to me. It is absolutely uncomfortable using Windows when sometimes I just have to(at school, fixing somebody else's computer etc.) Arch Linux is great. Ubuntu will be better if it has a rolling release.

Something that occurs to me is this:

Just about every place that I've worked with Windows has had its own 'special' set of restrictions.

Where I'm at now for instance in the Windows menu is an option "Switch User" but it is disabled. For various reasons, I need to do a lot of user switching, and I find myself desperately missing the OS X fast-user switching. Having to log out and log in all the time is a massive PITA.

So I caught myself thinking "man, Windows is sooooo retarded". But it's not really Windows fault (I assume, unless they put that menu option in just to taunt us).

Then it ocurred to me that perhaps a contributing reason I like OS X and despise Windows, is that I've never had to do battle with a retardedly locked-down version of OS X. If your average IT dept could get access to my home machine, I'm sure they could reduce me to moaning and misery in fairly short order. :-/

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by gexla »

anigbrowl wrote: post #40
trotsky wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CPA here, so naturally VAX/VMS on the minicomputer ;-)

CLO here, so naturally a typewriter ;-)

FTO here, so naturally a cell phone to set off IDE's. OS of cell phone doesn't matter. It needs to be cheap because I'm just going to ditch it anyways.

Edit: Maybe a bad joke but a shoutout to the people of the world who only have a cell phone as a computing device.

Re: Poll: What OS do you currently use?

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Post by grogers »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #45
cookiecaper wrote: post #13

Arch Linux. The control of Gentoo without sitting around for five days while everything is rebuilt.

Probably more ahead of the game on new shiny things than Gentoo, too. Arch is the only OS that I have seen where the difference between testing and stable is about two hours. No, really. The official process requires two signoffs on each architecture (x86 and amd64), and then they ship it.

And typically the AUR has whatever else you may happen to need, up to date as well. That was really what pushed me from gentoo to arch, maintaining portage overlays is a pain, and the official gentoo package repo never updates what packages _I_ think are important.
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