What OS do you use at work / home?
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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I'm retired but I use Windows 7 ala Visual Studio 2017 for desktop and web apps. I also do embedded programming on Raspberry Pi using Linux using various methods to create apps. Also embedded on Arduino and there is no OS so I use Atmel Studio which use the Visual Studio Isolated shell. I'm finding learning Linux, after working on other systems for so many years is like trying to feed chopped liver to a baby. You get the baby to digest a little but the most gets rejected.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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At work, we do Windows; our software runs on Windows (mostly because ,and 3rd party hardware support) We do not expect to support any other OS in the near future (2, 3 years at least). At home I use Windows (game PC) and Mac OS for everyday stuff (web, lightroom, itunes, traktor).
I'd rather be phishing!
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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Work laptop is win10. Home is win7 and OpenVMS.
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I'm retired but I use Windows 7 ala Visual Studio 2017 for desktop and web apps. I also do embedded programming on Raspberry Pi using Linux using various methods to create apps. Also embedded on Arduino and there is no OS so I use Atmel Studio which use the Visual Studio Isolated shell. I'm finding learning Linux, after working on other systems for so many years is like trying to feed chopped liver to a baby. You get the baby to digest a little but the most gets rejected.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
I'm finding learning Linux, after working on other systems for so many years is like trying to feed chopped liver to a baby. You get the baby to digest a little but the most gets rejected.
Yup. I used Windows exclusively for years until I forced myself to learn Linux by installing it as my exclusive OS at home - took about 9 painful months before I was something close to comfortable :^) I'd say it was worth it - it opened my eyes to a whole world of programming & computing that I knew little about - but I never adjusted to the wider Linux culture & I don't really want to :rolleyes:
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At work, we do Windows; our software runs on Windows (mostly because ,and 3rd party hardware support) We do not expect to support any other OS in the near future (2, 3 years at least). At home I use Windows (game PC) and Mac OS for everyday stuff (web, lightroom, itunes, traktor).
I'd rather be phishing!
That's fair. Out of curiosity what do you do at work that requires Windows for 3rd party hardware support? My first guess is user-facing applications for kiosks etc, but I might be completely missing the mark.
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Work laptop is win10. Home is win7 and OpenVMS.
I had to look up OpenVMS to find out what it was - looks really interesting! I'll have to try it out in a VM sometime :)
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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Windows 10 all over the place, at work and at home. I find Linux very interesting, but as I'm already pressed for time to keep up with all new .NET innovations like .NET Core, Windows is my priority. Some colleagues are venturing into the Linux world however, there was even an oddball that used OpenBSD, he left last year and as nobody got a clue what to do with the OpenBSD machine on which he installed a GIT server, we replaced it with Windows 10 and Gitea.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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Win 10, desktop and tablet - I work at home, so the desktop is mostly work, the tablet is wholly home. In addition, I use an Android Tablet (technically, I have 2 1/2 android tablets - it's complicated) and an Android phone. Win10 still isn't as good as Win7 from a user POV, and it's still an ugly bugger. It's insistence on trying - seemingly increasingly desperately - to make me use Edge is annoying but unsuccessful.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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Anything that plays porn.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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At work it is Windows 7 and Servers from 2003 to 2012... (there is a pressure from Microsoft to move to Windows 10 on desktops however) At home I use Fedora with different VMs (including all kind of Windows XP/7/8/10/Servers), but just realized that for the last 3-4 months I didn't used any of the Windows VMs anymore...
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Mike Hankey wrote:
I'm finding learning Linux, after working on other systems for so many years is like trying to feed chopped liver to a baby. You get the baby to digest a little but the most gets rejected.
Yup. I used Windows exclusively for years until I forced myself to learn Linux by installing it as my exclusive OS at home - took about 9 painful months before I was something close to comfortable :^) I'd say it was worth it - it opened my eyes to a whole world of programming & computing that I knew little about - but I never adjusted to the wider Linux culture & I don't really want to :rolleyes:
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Work laptop is win10. Home is win7 and OpenVMS.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
OpenVMS
Awesome sauce! Details please!
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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Work which is from home: Win 10 If I had time to develop at home, the personal laptop is Win 8.1.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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Work uses W7 still. At home, W10, Debian on the single board computers, and some flavor of Ubuntu on Docker, I believe.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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Same laptop. I bring it with me. Triple boot, but I live and breath in win 7.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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It's not one or the other. I've moved on to Windows after the DOS days and have been using/coding on it since then (and making a living out of it), but I do use Linux in VMs essentially for tinkering and learning on my own. I've never installed Linux outside a VM except for an old netbook I still use - its 2GB of RAM was getting a little too cramped for a modern Windows version. Months back, I've also used Linux on an (old) media PC hooked up to my projector, but playing back video at 1080p without proper hardware acceleration support was a non-starter. I use Windows 10 primarily (I tend to keep up to date on my primary boxes), but still have the full set of Windows versions (clients/servers) in VMs for testing. Personally, I hate abandoning old versions of Windows if the software I write doesn't explicitly take advantage of features that are exclusive to the newer versions. For example, if it weren't for the fact that I'd rather use the latest .NET runtime, there's little reason the software I write for my own purposes couldn't still run even on XP.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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Work PC uses Windows as that's the most widely supported platform by third-party software, including IDEs for pretty much everything, including embedded tooling. Home PC is Windows for right about the same reason.
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I keep switching back-and-forth between Windows and Linux (elementary / Ubuntu flavour) for reasons such as greater compatibility and support with user-end software (on Windows) and cleaner networking tools, better command-line tooling, upgrade-when-you-want, etc (on Linux) WSL has made me lean somewhat more towards Windows (I get most command-line abilities from Linux) but it's not perfect: networking, hardware port support, virtualization, GPU access etc still leave a lot to be desired :| ^.^ Asking the question in the title because I'm curious about what kind of problems you guys have to work with & why you / your company chose your OS as the best solution for what you do - and whether you would change anything.
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That's fair. Out of curiosity what do you do at work that requires Windows for 3rd party hardware support? My first guess is user-facing applications for kiosks etc, but I might be completely missing the mark.
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I chip in: in my case it's for image acquisition boards, custom made boards for our enterprise, x-ray detectors and generators and similar stuff.
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