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View Poll Results: Which Desktop Operating System Do You Consider Your Primary?
BSD Variant 2 0.24%
ChromeOS 5 0.61%
Haiku 0 0%
Linux 674 82.30%
Mac OS X 33 4.03%
Other *NIX 3 0.37%
ReactOS 0 0%
Windows 98 11.97%
Other 4 0.49%
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Old 06-04-2016, 12:24 AM   #196
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Linux mint for me I switch to Winblows for a game of two now and then maybe once a month. not enough to dual boot the normal way. If I need windows I can hit F12, I just soon let my Linux load as fast as it can. 90% of my games are native Linux of work well under wine anyway so what’s the point to Dual boot.

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Old 06-04-2016, 12:55 AM   #197
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windows is primary

well windows is my primary on laptop until i learn to use Linux, but will still keep Windows for expensive programs that Linux can not run. i have Linux on my desktop as it is a better computer than my laptop. eventually i want to get rid of windows as my main computer.
 
Old 06-04-2016, 01:58 AM   #198
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Old 06-04-2016, 03:26 AM   #199
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Rosa!
 
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Old 06-04-2016, 04:11 AM   #200
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Ubuntu Linux in various shades on different machines. I will never use Windows again!
 
Old 06-04-2016, 04:23 AM   #201
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Cool Love Ubuntu

I wish I could say that I'll never use Windows again but I keep trying new thing and Opps! keep happening like that ROTATING CUBE THING, I'm still learning. If i ever figure out how to mount things I'd be happy, or correctly install a download? and the learning list continues.
 
Old 06-04-2016, 04:43 AM   #202
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Old 06-04-2016, 05:07 AM   #203
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Which Desktop Operating System Do You Consider Your Primary?

I voted Widows because I have to use Windows 10 for work. At home is Ubuntu Linux. I run it on a much less powerful laptop and it's faster!
 
Old 06-04-2016, 05:25 AM   #204
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Smile I use

PCLOS as main desktop since MS stopped support for Win XP. At last the MS monkey is off my back!
 
Old 06-04-2016, 06:36 AM   #205
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At home it's Slackware. At work it's Windows, but I manage a group of servers running CentOS, so it's not all bad.
 
Old 06-04-2016, 06:42 AM   #206
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Slackware since 2003.
 
Old 06-04-2016, 07:01 AM   #207
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I doubt it is the 32 vs 64 that is the problem.
I run software on mine that is both; in fact many programs that you will be running will be 32 bit ones since many writers will not produce both versions.
 
Old 06-04-2016, 07:44 AM   #208
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Parabola GNU/Linux
thank you for info
 
Old 06-04-2016, 07:45 AM   #209
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Rosa!
thank you very nuch
 
Old 06-04-2016, 07:52 AM   #210
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A few days ago I had a friend that wanted to install Linux on her new (<1 yr. old) computer. It came with Windows 8 pre-installed. ANY NEW MACHINE WITH WINDOWS 8 OR HIGHER CORRUPTS THE MOTHERBOARD (firmware) at the BOOT processs to make it virtually IMPOSSIBLE to load a different operating system!
I missed this. There are possibly cases where this is true but for the main part it is absolutely false. In fact, when Windows 8 was installed it was a condition of having "Made For Windows" stickers that the UEFI/BIOS allowed another OS to be installed. There are many, many, sites on the internet showing how to install Linux on a machine with UEFI and some even with "Secure Boot" still enabled.
If you have an example of a machine on which Linux cannot be installed please share it as it is important to let people know what not to buy.
 
  


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