Which Desktop Operating System Do You Consider Your Primary?
 

The Official LQ Poll Series continues. As a follow-up to Which Desktop Operating Systems Do You Currently Run? we now want to know: Which Desktop Operating System Do You Consider Your Primary?

--jeremy

Hi Jeremy...

I tend to view my copy of Windows Vista as my primary, although I use both pretty evenly, I think. :)

Regards...

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

Linux is all I run (aside from a NetBSD server I use), so I reckon Linux. Slackware, mostly.

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.

The poll results are entirely unamazing and not surprising :D

Kali Linux.

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.

Linux, of course. Specifically Debian, since 2006.

With a GNU to boot++! :D

Fedora
 

Since early 2000's.

Linux isn't good enough to be a desktop OS, and windross is far worse.

Operating System Used
 

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.

really ???...which distro????

Fedora the primary OS on my desktop, Debian the sole OS on my primary laptop.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my desktop and my laptop.

At home I run Ubuntu on my main desktop. (I have yet to upgrade to 16.04, however.) At my office, my desktop is Fedora 22 and a 9 year old Lenovo laptop runs Xubuntu with quite a lot of snap. I also have a Macbook Pro, but I wish it ran Linux. (I know it can, but I have not gotten around to making the switch.)

I have been a Mac user since 1985 and still am. However, my professional life has evolved from supporting Mac networks, to mixed networks, to Solaris servers, and finally to Ubuntu servers. I've always had a primary Mac desktop both at work and at home, even at a time when I was managing Novell and Windows NT servers. My Mac at work typically has 20-30 terminal windows open to about a dozen servers. We have a System-76 Ubuntu desktop in the server room that serves as an IPMI console on the private network where the IPMI connections live. I use a remote screen to that from my Mac which lives on all the networks.

Debian for one workstation and two laptops.
Win 10 for another workstation for my wife and the couple things I can't run on Debian. Come on Garmin - make a Linux option.

All of mine dual boot Win 7 and a Linux distro...

Linux
 

Centos 6.7

My Primary OS
 

Hi Jeremy
I almost exclusively use Linux -Kubuntu as my working system.
I have WindowsXP! on another partition (but with no internet connection) last used ages ago .
On another partition I use Debian-7 -minimum install - used only to backup my working partitions (root & home) -with fsarchiver

I run Linux Mint 17 and that is my primary OS. I have a virtualized Windows 7 install that I use when necessary.

UBUNTU 16.04 on desktop and netbook. The desktop dual boots to Windows Vista (defaulting to Linux), but I only use windows when I really have to, like accessing Samsung Kies.

Linux 3.16.7-35-desktop
openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)

"Just as soon as" I have the time I'll jump to 42.
--ml

PCLinuxOS is my primary desktop on my main two machines. One is dual boot with XP, the other also can boot to Win7. I also have one machine with an older version of Ubuntu and several other older machines with earlier versions of PCLINUXOS (just too lazy to update them).

PC Linux OS is my main OS since 2007.

Hi

(desktop) Fedora Gnome is my primary operating system.

Multiple operating systems on removable drives for testing purposes:

1)Debian Testing Gnome & Arch Linux Gnome & Trisquel GNU/Linux 7

2)(desktop) Deepin 15.2 & ROSA Desktop Fresh KDE R7 & KaOS Linux

3)(desktop) openSUSE Leap 42.1 Gnome & Sabayon Gnome

Ubuntu is slowly turning into the main computer due to the fact that it has the highest screen size [medium hi-def]. And my trading broker and charting software us it all [need & am getting a 4k monitor soon !

Also Magic Jack [volp] does not support XP any more [if it supported Linux , i would renew it ]

And then there is my hot mail [ MSFT is still fn it up ] and it does not run all the time on my Ubuntu

so i need a new Linux friendly VOLP and a new email

MY Tradingview.com runs great on Linux ! [stock charting ]
Option House & Scottrade run fine in Linux ! [ stock & option brokers ]

this was typed in XP since my email lead me here
mean while the Ubuntu 12.04LTS is running the above & chat ! [ with a movie on hold ! ]

Slackware on my desktop, Mint on the laptop.

I have Mageia dual-booting with Win7 on a graphics tablet, but I use that most for watching old movies and TV shows and some testing.

Linux has been my primary OS since 2004 when Slackware v10.0 was released. I'm currently running a dual boot of Slack64 v14.1 and (for testing purposes) Win7. My last machine never saw any version of Windows; I bought it in 2005 with Xandros on it, decided that I preferred Slackware, wiped the Xandros, installed Slackware, and used that machine (keeping up with each new version release along the way) until last year. That's when I decided it was time to make the move to x64 and built myself this machine. I call her Lucille. :)

Debian on my desktop, ChromeOS on my laptop. I also have Debian in a chroot on the chromebook, just in case, mostly to run Thunderbird (Iceowl) since there are no real email clients for ChromeOS. CloudMagic is available, but it's still not ready for prime time.

Xubuntu on the desktop machine, Linux Mint MATE Edition on the EeePC netbook.
I do run Win XP in a virtual machine on teh desktop because I am my political party's local treasurer, and the Canadian government software for reporting our finances is Windows only. (I tried it in WINE but it didn't start.)

Desktop
 

Linux mint Cinnamon on my desktop and laptop computers.

Linux or windows
 

Linux is my main system Window I keep to fix other people computers
Ubuntu /mint is most machines
Ubuntu server for 2 servers
Start into Linux when XP was started have window 3.1 and Ubuntu 9 on same disc
all this great to read so many replies
Linux is the light.

Linux or Windows
 

Linux. Specifically Ubuntu Gnome on the desktop, file server & 3 laptops. Windows XP running in a VM to handle Quicken.

I tend to use windows when gaming, or at work but use Linux for everything else. I spend more time therefore on windows, but still consider Linux my default. This question is a bit too simplistic!

Only Linux
 

I have never used Windows, as I switched to Linux, in 1994 I think, as soon as the 1.0.x kernel was available. Before that, it was DOS - horror! I did use a remarkable piece of software on top of DOS, namely Desqview-X. It was a heroic attempt to overcome the severe limitations of DOS. I began with Slackware, but shortly after that moved to Debian, to which I have been faithful ever since. I made brief experiments with Ubuntu - not bad, but I didn't like the non-existence of a superuser - and FreeBSD, which is also fine, but a bit more restrictive than Debian, and a bit more work to maintain.

I only use Linux (Mageia 5) on my desktop and laptop,and Raspbian on my Raspberry Pi tablet.Having started with Mandriva I used that until they went all haywire so I followed the fork to Mageia.
Regards,Peter

I started with Unix over 30 years age but the realities of business have moved me to Windows desktop. That being said, I always have a Linux VM waiting in the wings when I need to get some things done that are just so easy with the familiar native tools of *nix.

for other
 

Slackware 14.1 I need reliablility so I use lilo boot loader to boot Windows 10 Slackware is the first to boot up and is up and running as soon as I get home from work on the same monitor I have Le Capitan and on the side I have a netbook running Dabian Jessy my phone and tablets run Android they are both Nexus 7 KitKat 4 Lollipop

Opensuse 13.2 on desktop, 12.2 on laptop

PCLinuxOS on desktop, Slackware on server.

Slackware64 Linux.
To scan I run the HP software in winXp in VirtualBox on the Slackware64 Linux desktop.

I regard my preferred desktop for real work as X11 because my work has always been command line based. The hardware platform with the display is of little importance really. At home I use Mac OSX 10.6.8, which is years out of date, but the more tablet oriented interface of the later versions drives me up the wall. X emulation s/w under XP was fine. The later less utilitarian versions of Windows and MacOS just get in the way.

Primary Usage
 

Linux. Started with Slackware 0.91 (in the early 1990's?) as University prof. Local mainframe (VAX) ran a Unix variant which helped educate our researchers and physics students, among others. Experimented with many distros over the years (too many to list here). Currently running Mint 17.3. Linux Brother printer drivers very useful, but must occasionally use Windows 7 for finer details. Also need Win 7 for Google Earth. Computer time is 99.9% on Linux. Still waiting for "perfect" distribution ... ;-}

Well, for a change, allow me one MS-DOS a.k.a. Windows shell, hee-hee, user to vote for this despised by *nix users "OS".
See, I am aware that MS did some sloppy plagiary, yet, I find this "franchise" very useful.

Just to tease/ask you *nix fans, tell me what is the fastest application/tool/service to find patterns into English texts, brute-force-LY?!

Is it, an *nix' tool or Windows'?

http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/p...-wordlist.aspx

http://www.sanmayce.com/Exhaustive-Fuzzy_ApadRAG.png

http://www.sanmayce.com/GW_r1+++_balloon.png

Take my playfulness seriously, and answer me, if you need to find a certain pattern into a haystack, say 50GB English Wikipedia, why should an unbiased user pay attention what OS is better when one sloppy OS could offer a tool getting the job done in record time?

My point, speed is religion, speed implemented in some Windows tool can't be shadowed by the defects of the running OS.

Slackware, even on my Raspberry Pi. (Thanks, FatDog.)

Linux vs Windows Desktop
 

I tend to think Windows still has linux beat on the desktop, but I exclusively use linux for all things backend. It's undisputed that Windows rules the desktop, so it is with Linux ruling the network, backend and mobile, but then it really depends on what you are trying to do.