Which OS are you using?

rob-fi · « **on:** 18 Mar 2011, 11:20 pm »

Hey guys,

Which O/s are you using currently? (also post the reason why you love it)

I'm a W7 user.

jaywills · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 Mar 2011, 11:24 pm »

OS X, Snow Leopard, latest iteration. Mac user since 1985.

srb · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Mar 2011, 11:48 pm »

Windows 7. (It's the only OS that supports the Ceton InfiniTV 4 CableCARD TV tuner that can decrypt 4 streams of encrypted/pay cable TV channels).

Steve

Mike Nomad · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 12:01 am »

One of each: Mac OS X 10.6; Windows 7 (Ultimate). I run OS X because it's better than anything else available, and all of the applications I need run on it (save one); Windows 7 because it's the best thing available for the ASUS Eee PC I have.

etcarroll · « **Reply #4 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 12:11 am »

+1 for Win 7 in my htpc for reasons listed below. And it just works better in my laptop, with Win 7 64bit on my desktop.

WHS on my media server, was going to upgrade to latest version, but they dropped off the drive pool feature, so I'm standing pat for now.

Quote from: srb on 18 Mar 2011, 11:48 pm

Windows 7. (It's the only OS that supports the Ceton InfiniTV 4 CableCARD TV tuner that can decrypt 4 streams of encrypted/pay cable TV channels).

Steve

Nels Ferre · « **Reply #5 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 12:15 am »

Mac OSX here. Snow Leopard 10.6 on my Mac Mini and Macbook, 10.4 (Panther I think?) on Leslie's older MacBook.

Why do I like it? It just works. All of them have been 100% reliable. Also, there is far less malicious code written for OSX as opposed to Windows anything. No blue screens of death, and they are all more than fast enough for our needs.

I'll never switch back.

planet10 · « **Reply #6 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 02:11 am »

OS X 10.4.11 on my dual G5, my dual 867 G4 T/S measurement machine, and PowerBook G4 12". 10.5.8 on the iMac G5 music servers (one is also a videoPhone), 9.2.2 on my G4 webserver. My wife has 10.5.8 on here MacBook (i;ve got Snow Leopard for it, but she won't let me install it. 10.4.11 on the Godson's G4 LuxoLamp.

OS X because it is the best consumer OS out there.

dave

JohnR · « **Reply #7 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 02:40 am »

OS/X 10.6 on desktop and laptop. Windows 7 running in a VM on the desktop, because there are a small number of things that I need it for. I'll probably put Linux in a VM on the laptop because some of my servers have a remote console that only works on Linux and Windows. Plus it can't hurt to have a local development copy of a server.

Why OS/X? Originally, because it has a Unix shell and all the bits underneath. I used to have to install Cygwin on every Windows machine I touched or I couldn't use the stupid thing. Now, I just get the heebie jeebies when I use Windows, I only do the minimum I have to with it.

[Edit: oh, and OS/X 10.5 on the music server because it's an old (powerPC) machine and that's the latest OS that will install on it.]

angelo · « **Reply #8 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 02:56 am »

home PC = win7 x64
laptop = xp pro
work pc1 = xp pro
work pc2 = centos5.5
work servers = win2k3r2/centos5.x/rhel5.x, working on migrating all win2k3r2 to 2k8r2

i can live w/o win7 but as an IT guy you need/want to have one

doorman · « **Reply #9 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 03:00 am »

OS X 10.6.6
Gotta love a Mac!

Don

ctviggen · « **Reply #10 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 03:40 pm »

Windows 7 64 bit (2 computers, both HT) and 32 bit (laptop).

As for the supposed superiority of MAC OSes, I haven't had a bluescreen on any windows computer (including XP) I've used in years. And I can't stand Microsoft, but I have to give them credit for finally fixing pretty much every bad thing about their OS.

bacobits1 · « **Reply #11 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 04:25 pm »

Laptop- Win 7 64 bit
Laptop- XP pro

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jqp · « **Reply #12 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 04:26 pm »

Couple machines with Win 7 64
1 with XP Pro Media Center,
Couple of servers with Windows Server 2008R2
Laptop with Win 7 64 Home Premuim
broken-screen Laptop with Vista

- will convert it to a headless Windows 2008R2 I think
Laptop with Windows 2000 Professional
iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.2.1

Win 7 is finally a mature, stable, and very good OS

DougSmith · « **Reply #13 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 04:30 pm »

Win7 on the home computer. Fast, nice features and no problems.
WinXP on my company laptop - same old, same old...

shep · « **Reply #14 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 04:45 pm »

Win 7 on laptop with dual-boot for Linux Mint
Android 2.2 on tablet

Mike Nomad · « **Reply #15 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 05:37 pm »

Quote from: ctviggen on 19 Mar 2011, 03:40 pm

Windows 7 64 bit (2 computers, both HT) and 32 bit (laptop).

As for the supposed superiority of MAC OSes, I haven't had a bluescreen on any windows computer (including XP) I've used in years. And I can't stand Microsoft, but I have to give them credit for finally fixing pretty much every bad thing about their OS.

It has only been recently that Apple and MS have (to varying degrees) gotten it right. The smartest thing Apple did was ditch their original code base, and go to The Most Established OS. Even with that, it wasn't until the 2.6 release where OS X was ready for prime time.

MS finally has gotten back to getting it right. Windows 7 is the best thing since NT 4, and for much the same reason that OS X is successful: MS ditched heaps of junk, poorly written legacy code. Windows 7 is the first Microsoft OS since NT 4 that has not (so far) given me a BSOD.

Now if MS would only knock it off with the stupid interface change for Office...

ArthurDent · « **Reply #16 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 06:06 pm »

Windows XP Pro 32 bit on ASUS portable, old Dell laptop, and desktop work machine. Don't love it, but was natural progression from NT & 2000 Pro. So far have never see the dreaded 'blue screen of death', knock on wood. Been giving Widows 7 time to shake out the bugs, and so far as I know can't go 64 bit as AutoCad isn't supporting that yet.

If I was 30 years younger, and starting from scratch would probably choose Linux.

lcrim · « **Reply #17 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 07:04 pm »

I have a Widows 7, 64 bit laptop which has become my everyday machine, My daughter uses another older laptop running Ubuntu and there is the Squeezebox server which is now running XP because I also needed it to be a print server and it was a bitch to troubleshoot printing issues in Ubuntu. I still have an older laptop running XP that may become the new music server because one of the hinges on the screen is dying and video is getting funky.
I guess I should include my two SqueezeBox Touch as they run Alsa, admittedly a limited instruction set. I don't know where to draw the line. I really don't love or dislike any OS, the IOS on many routers are also fairly familiar to me and I generally revert to DOS to try and figure things out.
I've been using the free OpenOffice.org and I doubt if I would ever pay for MSOffice again. I wish I was better w/ the linux commands but I have to look them up every time.

datman · « **Reply #18 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 07:48 pm »

I have Windows 7 Ultimate on my home i7 desktop, my HP Pavilion dv7 laptop, and my Quad Core Pentium business computer. Having been with Microsoft since MS-DOS I tell people all the time that Windows 7 is so good I can't believe it came from Microsoft!

skunark · « **Reply #19 on:** 19 Mar 2011, 08:42 pm »

In no certain order...

Linux:
-SUSE 10 64-bit
-Fedora 14, 10 32-bit
Mac OSX:
-Snow Leopard (64-bit)
Windows:
-7 64-bit

I use all of these OSes on a daily basis and all have a target function of which they do very well except for the Windows 7. I've been extremely disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista and Windows 7 on a laptop compared to Mac OSX (even on the same hardware). I have both a Macbook Pro and an HP 8510w and if it wasn't for a few key crappy apps I use at work, I would probably switch to Linux and never look back on the HP. For a desktop, hands down it's Fedora for me, Mac OSX is a close second, but i'm so familiar with Linux it's probably why I still prefer it. Ubuntu is fine, just they've had enough security issues with how they manage their packages in the last few years, it's just not for me.

The only reason why I keep a copy of Windows 7 around is occasional games I play, but I've been preferring games that run on Mac OSX lately as seem to run smoother. Avoid Aspyr or emulated games on mac, select the ones that run natively on it.

It's interesting to think back about all the different OSes I've tried over the last few decades, some were good some were bad. The one consistent issue that has always annoyed me is how Microsoft deals with drivers. I can't even plug in a USB Compact Flash/SD adapter without having to install the driver. Works fine on Linux and Mac OSX....