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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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).
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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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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.
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OpenVMS
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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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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 at work and home and happy with Edge: not yet a full browser but I like current features (I switch between Chrome and Edge, but Edge is my default). VS 2015 at work and VS 2017 at home (starting to use 2017 side by side at work).
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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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MacOSX. Managing Linux servers for clients it does what I need: 1) easy to use interface 2) I can ssh into/from it from the moment it is installed 3) the Windows VMs on it does the bits I don't yet have native on MacOSX 4) M$ "supports" it well enough for Office & RDP stuff. 5) Most "apps" have Mac support before Linux ;( 6) I did mention: "It just work(tm)" for me.... other than when I HAckintosh things :D
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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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For more than ten years, from the late 1990 to about 2010, I felt a "professional obligation" to run Linux at home (next to Windows). Actually, even though our main OS at work was Solaris (ie. Unix for Sun computers) our employer would not to support Linux at home: Maintenance and administration tended to require so many work hours that "home office days" brought far less results than for those who stuck to the rather problem free Windows (as long as you play by its rules, and refrain from forcing it). Nevertheless, RH 5.x arrived with the promise of almost maintaining itself. So I went for it. And spent an unbelivable amount of time to intstall it, make it run, make it access my peripherals, ... I was myself a professional software guy, using Solaris at work, and when I cannot make it work, how can Linux guys (at that time, Linux guys were still not quite mature youngsters, not like serious workhorse Unix guys) claim that this is end user friendly? I did have RH available for a couple years. Using it for ... nothing. My home needs didn't have the Linux applications. Linuxers all the time claimed that Finally there is a Linux application for this need and that need - try it! I did, again and again, and it failed miserably, again and again. When Ubuntu popularity started growing, strong linux supporters brought me stories that were almost exact blueprints of the RH 5.x stories I had been told ten years later: Now, you just plug it in, and it will run! Just as user friendly as Windows, and with thousands of applications for all imaginable task. Now, people run Linux on their (home) machines for one of two reasons: Either they really want to run Linux, because Linux is fun and modern and robust and ... (and about a hundred other ways to say "the best"). They want Linux because it is Linux. Or, their primary application of their home computer is for tasks requiring software that is only available on Linux (or Linux based software has a significant higher quality). This is often the case at work (more so ten years ago than today): You couldn't get your work done without the Linux software. I sat down considering: I do enough fiddeling around with OSes at work to satisfy that psychological need; the first point doesn't apply to me. At home I just wants to do my thing: Write my stories, edit my videos and mix my sound recordings and produce my DVD movies and CD I do for others. I trace all my expenses in my private accounting system. In my living room, I can run all the IR re
