Which Desktop Operating Systems Do You Currently Run?
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View Poll Results: Which Desktop Operating Systems Do You Currently Run?
BSD Variant
25
3.20%
ChromeOS
25
3.20%
Haiku
4
0.51%
Linux
743
95.13%
Mac OS X
60
7.68%
Other *NIX
14
1.79%
ReactOS
2
0.26%
Windows
282
36.11%
Other
21
2.69%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 781. You may not vote on this poll
I realize the polls have to have broad categories,but really, "Linux"? And "Windows"?
That is like equating Sourcemage, Gentoo, Mastodon, Puppy, very forgettable desktops where the distros drank the Koolaid and used early GNOME3, YellowDog on an unupdated SONY Playstation with a very slick looking version of enlightenment, and of course the very highly ergonomically engineered SymphonyOS with the Mezzo Desktop.
It is almost as bad as equating Windows 3.0 and other forgettable early versions with 95, 98, ME, Various NTs, XP XP_64 Win7 win8 win8.1 apology edition and win 10 victimware. Did I leave any out? If I did, it is because it was extremely forgettable. Everyone who came to me for help with viruses wrapped round each other in that edition received a complimentary trial installation of Ubuntu/Kubuntu and none ever requested a return to that win edition. I did not miss the lost revenue of helping them maintain an unmaintainable system for a retainer.
But it stands to reason that LQ would have lots of users of some flavor of desktop Linux. The number who answered Windows is amazing. I hope they are here to evaluate alternatives.
Kali has a desktop? I will have to review my penetration testing software...
I am using Linux, Debian Jessie, Fedora 23 and some older version of Suse. Multibooting on desktops, Fedora 23 on laptop. Wine emulations and Windows 2000.
1 win7
1 win8
1 win 10
2 osx yosemete
1 osx mavericks
1 osx snow leopard
2 linux mint 17.3 cinnamon
1 linux mint 17.3 mate
1 linux mint 17.2 cinnamon (was on 17.3 but rolled it back due to issues with the panel applets)
Voted just for GNU/Linux Operating system as the one that I currently run, however from time to time I run Windows 10 that came with my desktop PC and when I need to run a specific program that just run under Windows i.e. Rosetta Stone language system.
After that, I mostly use GNU/Linux Mint Rosa 17.3 which I installed on an external Hard Disk. I use multiboot and also run Microwatt GNU/Linux with i3wm. Then on a very old Laptop with Via processor I recently installed Debian Jessie GNU/Linux to try how it runs. It does run very well.
I like to run the live CD, see how the play along in the search for the most stable, fast performance, less complicated applications installation and reliability.
Hello!
Main PC: W764
PC secondary: Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS
Notebook 1: WXP32-SP3
Notebook 2: Fedora
And when I need to do something on Mac, use a USB flash drive with Mac OS 10.8.4 Hackintosh with my main computer.
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