What Operating System are you using on your computer?

Fedora Workstation - a linux based operating system sponsored by Red Hat.

In my experience, it has been a very stable and reliable system, and highly secure, with an extensive repository of useful applications. Package management, updates and upgrades are very efficient and run seamlessly. It ships with the GNOME desktop environment, which is very popular on Linux systems, which is designed to provide a low learning curve for new users, whilst remaining powerful and configurable 'under the hood'.

My most used apps are Firefox for web browsing and Bitwig Studio for music creation.

Windows XP...I’m a cranky old man who can’t handle or understand any of this newfangled technology.

nChrist said:

I used Linux Ubuntu on and off for several years and really liked it. I just got a new computer that came with Windows 10. I was able to configure away most of the things I don't like. I'll go back to Linux if things get too wild on Windows.

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I have used Ubuntu on and off as well. It's very popular and has good hardware and third party software support which makes it very accessible for users venturing into Linux. There are a lot of tasks that can be done with graphical software packages without having to resort to using the terminal. But I've found that using the terminal often gets tasks done more efficiently and quicker!

Windows 10 on all of my personal devices, a mish-mash of Ubuntu and Debian on my image management servers and nodes, and my file-servers at work and home are Server 2019 virtualised in Proxmox (which is Debian based).

I tried 10, and rolled it back shortly after. There's just nothing I saw on 10 I needed over my 7, if there was anything different at all but the UI, so why should I learn where everything is all over again.

I was fine with XP, and still not sure why I went to 7...maybe the DX upgrade?? I'm of the opinion, after a stable XP hit the scene, these upgrades benefit no one but MS..

Kenny'sID said:

I tried 10, and rolled it back shortly after. There's just nothing I saw on 10 I needed over my 7, if there was anything different at all but the UI, so why should I learn where everything is all over again.

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It's true. But you're going to need to next year; updates will stop being released for 7, making you more vulnerable with each day you're still on it.

I was fine with XP, and still not sure why I went to 7...maybe the DX upgrade?? I'm of the opinion, after a stable XP hit the scene

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XP was largely only 32-bit, meaning it had RAM limitations; I think it also had processor limitations. You could get 64-bit copies of XP but they were hard to come by.

these upgrades benefit no one but MS..

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Actually it benefits every single software and hardware manufacturer.

Basically in software/hardware development you have a vicious cycle of:
- Software needs [x] hardware to meet requirements of [y feature/s]
- [x] hardware is developed and manufacturers also develop [z feature/s]
- Benefit/need is seen for [z feature/s] so software needs to be updated to meet [y feature/s] AND [z feature/s]
- Software now requires [xx] hardware

It's just a byproduct of the consumer world we live in, and not limited to the technological world. It's why interior/exterior designs and trends change every few years. In a similar way, computer UIs and hardware design needs to change to keep up and be fresh.

On one of my laptops I have Elementary OS



and the other laptop I have PClinuxOS Trinity Desktop Edition.



I like them both though on the second laptop I have been entertaining the idea of either Q4OS or Elementry OS

charsan said:

On one of my laptops I have Elementary OS

and the other laptop I have PClinuxOS Trinity Desktop Edition.

I like them both though on the second laptop I have been entertaining the idea of either Q4OS or Elementry OS

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My first introduction to Linux was back in the early 2000s where I used Mandrake which was then running KDE3. Trinity desktop I think, was the continuation of KDE3, as a lot of users missed its features when KDE changed its design goals. Elementary seems to be getting a lot of attention nowadays as there has been a growth in software written in Vala.

Apple

Which computer ?
Windows 10, Ubuntu, Raspbian.
Depends on what computer we're talking about

I use Linux Mint at home at almost all the computers. Only my desktop can dualboot windows, because of the occasional gaming.

I use RISC OS on my Raspberry PI.

Wookiee said:

It's true. But you're going to need to next year; updates will stop being released for 7, making you more vulnerable with each day you're still on it.

There are ways around that, and I may upgrade other than go to the trouble but I don't have to like it.

XP was largely only 32-bit, meaning it had RAM limitations; I think it also had processor limitations. You could get 64-bit copies of XP but they were hard to come by.

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I know. I'm 64bit and am only able to use 5 0r 6 gigs of my 8 gigs of ram, still. And yes, I've looked into it, just like I looked into all the fixes for not being able to upgrade to 10 when I finally decided to do so while it was free. I look for fixes to those things, and I'd already learned, if I don't find the fix fairly quickly it may not be there, so I quit beating my brains out looking. Even if it's still there, sometimes it's just not worth it

Wookiee said:

Actually it benefits every single software and hardware manufacturer.

Basically in software/hardware development you have a vicious cycle of:
- Software needs [x] hardware to meet requirements of [y feature/s]
- [x] hardware is developed and manufacturers also develop [z feature/s]
- Benefit/need is seen for [z feature/s] so software needs to be updated to meet [y feature/s] AND [z feature/s]
- Software now requires [xx] hardware

It's just a byproduct of the consumer world we live in, and not limited to the technological world. It's why interior/exterior designs and trends change every few years. In a similar way, computer UIs and hardware design needs to change to keep up and be fresh.

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There's almost always a trickle down effect that can benefit others.

I'm not a hard core MS brasher but there has to be a reason they leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Anthony2019 said:

My first introduction to Linux was back in the early 2000s where I used Mandrake which was then running KDE3. Trinity desktop I think, was the continuation of KDE3, as a lot of users missed its features when KDE changed its design goals. Elementary seems to be getting a lot of attention nowadays as there has been a growth in software written in Vala.

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Mandrake was my first real introduction to Linux, my first was when my wife bought a book with Red Hat in it and I didn't really get it then but my boss showed me mandrake and I loved it. Trinity is a fork of KDE 3 modernized if that makes sense.

Elementary is doing some weird things with their newest update, if you want to install common software like LibreOffice, GIMP, etc it will popup a notification that warns users that basically it is not software from them and that it be harmful. I wonder if this will hurt the distro

charsan said:

Elementary is doing some weird things with their newest update, if you want to install common software like LibreOffice, GIMP, etc it will popup a notification that warns users that basically it is not software from them and that it be harmful. I wonder if this will hurt the distro

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Elementary uses Ubuntu as its core, so GIMP and LibreOffice should still work well with it. The only difference is that the Pantheon desktop has a set of core apps that follow specific design guidelines, especially use of the GTK header bar (similar to the one used in the core GNOME apps). Some third party apps do not follow these guidelines and therefore look 'out of place', but they should still function OK.

Anthony2019 said:

Elementary uses Ubuntu as its core, so GIMP and LibreOffice should still work well with it. The only difference is that the Pantheon desktop has a set of core apps that follow specific design guidelines, especially use of the GTK header bar (similar to the one used in the core GNOME apps). Some third party apps do not follow these guidelines and therefore look 'out of place', but they should still function OK.

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Of course they will work but just to have those warnings on standard applications like LibreOffice, GIMP, and others is silly since these are well used and the warnings can sound like a scary thing to those who don't know better

As of this month I'm fully switched over to Linux Mint. I was switching back and forth, before, but now Linux is my main OS. No problems. It's a nice, clean system.