What is your preferred computer operating system?

What is your preferred computer operating system?

  • macOS

    Votes: 39 14.7%

  • Microsoft Windows

    Votes: 172 64.9%

  • Linux

    Votes: 52 19.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 0.8%
  • Total voters
    265
I do my work on a Linux machine. My laptop is a Macbook, but don't generally do much development on it.
 
Windows is my main driver, and it is hard to let go. Simply due to ecosystem dependency. For Linux, and not having used a Linux Desktop in years, I quite like Ubuntu 25.04. Nothing beats CachyOS though, and it's very reliable on older hardware. For server things, I can't stand Windows and I spent a good time attending to servers. Linux allows so much more choice, especially running headless.

I don't know what MacOS is.
 
Windows 10 for a few specific games. Linux based operating systems for everything else.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
Why do Telco’s love HP-UX so much?
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You know, I actually don't know. The worst part is getting skilled employees since most code at the company you know I worked for has its code written in C. So it's a double whammy.

For years I proposed to port the code to Java on Linux, but eish.
 
Started with Windows 3.11, and ended with Windows 7. Moved to Ubuntu, and then on to Debian 12 last year. At work and on my personal device.

I keep a Windows 10 VM around just for some manufacturers' diagnostic tools, and as a test mule.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
BIM?

Only people who don’t know how to use MacOS call it “too clicky”.
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dj_jyno said:
Started with Windows 3.11, and ended with Windows 7. Moved to Ubuntu, and then on to Debian 12 last year. At work and on my personal device.

I keep a Windows 10 VM around just for some manufacturers' diagnostic tools, and as a test mule.
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I think we might be the same age ;-)
 
OCP said:
I think we might be the same age ;-)
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Same here. My first computer was on Win3.1. Had a monochrome monitor and a bulky keyboard and no mouse. Had to "tab" to get through things. But that is where my learning curve started. Linux has been my fav since the days of PC MAG with the demo CD's an some of them had Linux distros added.
 
Started with windows and moved to mac in the late 90s.

EDIT - come to think of it the computers in high school and college were Apple, so I didn't start with windows after all.
 
IamNoone said:
Same here. My first computer was on Win3.1. Had a monochrome monitor and a bulky keyboard and no mouse. Had to "tab" to get through things. But that is where my learning curve started. Linux has been my fav since the days of PC MAG with the demo CD's an some of them had Linux distros added.
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I started with a MSX --> XT --> 286 --> 486DX2 --> Pentium 1 (can't remember after that)
1st copy of RedHat i got in the mail - was on 3.5" disk and was stuck at login screen for 2 days not knowing what the default user was *facepalm*
 
Got a question.

So I installed Linux Mint on a USB stick and booted it up.

Everything seems like it would work well and performance was great. The only thing was updating apps like Thunderbird didn't work but that might have been because I was on USB and space was low. It's great that it can import Windows Live Mail messages though.

So my question is - is there anything that Mint can't do that Windows can. Anything I should know before jumping in?
 
s0lar said:
You two should live a little. Only have used one OS is like only sleeping with one women in your life. Go on, you know you want to.
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No. I use my home pc pretty much exclusively for gaming. All games I play work on Windows, not all are compatible with Mac whatever etc.

At work, I don't have a choice.

So yeah, Windows only for me thanks.
 
OutlawJoseyWales said:
Got a question.

So I installed Linux Mint on a USB stick and booted it up.

Everything seems like it would work well and performance was great. The only thing was updating apps like Thunderbird didn't work but that might have been because I was on USB and space was low. It's great that it can import Windows Live Mail messages though.

So my question is - is there anything that Mint can't do that Windows can. Anything I should know before jumping in?
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Run Microsoft Office if you need it for work. Games with anticheat if you play those. Adobe software including Photoshop and Adobe reader if you need it for SARS. I could go on and on.
 
Use all 3 mostly use windows.

Linux sucks with audio software among adobe and a plethora of games are still completely unsupported. The modding communities don’t even bother.

Mac is a gimmick and fashion product with the same lack in gaming support and the hardware is mediocre for the price. Still donno why 3ds max isn’t supported yet some people praise mac for graphic design yet fundamentally everything about windows supports it better including the hardware prices.

Windows still my gaming rig for the foreseeable future cause it works. The gui mapping is still descriptive and considering the run it had so far I’d say it’s most likely the most secure standalone os. Runs way harder on resources due to bloat and bad memory handling with its default apps but the baseline is still windows and functions well.
 
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