Which Desktop Operating System Do You Consider Your Primary?
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View Poll Results: Which Desktop Operating System Do You Consider Your Primary?
My main system runs Fedora 23 and I keep it up to date, all of my other systems dual boot Linux Fedora and Windos 7. My main laotop defaults to Fedora but I use it mostly at my customer's locations so in Windows 7. My Samba server and Internet firewall run CentOS 6.7
It's a bit of an odd question to answer, actually. MacOS is my primary GUI, but most of my desktop _activity_ is on a raspberry Pi that I access via ssh.
A Linux distro of some form has been my primary since 2006. Back then it was SUSE 10, nowadays it's Ubuntu.
I couldn't switch back to Windows, as it just feels too restrictive, though the introduction of Powershell does improve things somewhat, I still prefer the freedom over your machine you get by running a Linux system.
I started using Linux about 15 years ago and worked mainly with Slackware, then Knoppix variants on some old hardware. Then I moved to Debian on my main computer at home, but worked a lot on OS X laptops at home as well and for work. A few years ago I started using Ubuntu at home because of the quick install and to run pretty much out of the box. In early 2015 I got tired of Unity and wanted something different. I got a recent HP Elitebook and went back to Debian for a while, but six months ago moved to an Arch install and love it. I spend most of the time using the Awesome WM, but occasionally use XFCE when I want more of a GUI.
I use Debian Jessie on all my computers but one. The odd computer has Windows 10 but I only access it by vnc from my Debian computers. I only keep the headless Windows computer to run some commercial programs not available for Linux. They run very nicely from the Debian computers with the vnc connection.
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