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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 06-03-2016, 12:21 AM   #106
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I use Q4os on my no. 2 desktop and windows 10 on my main pc
 
Old 06-03-2016, 01:51 AM   #107
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MacOS + Ubuntu
At home it's MacOS, at work it's Ubuntu
 
Old 06-03-2016, 02:20 AM   #108
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Such a simple question to answer!

My main system has been Linux since 1999 - mainly Debian based because it was the easiest system to install & upgrade.

I also use OpenBSD because I like to have as little extra stuff/programs on my system than is necessary to do what I want.
 
Old 06-03-2016, 02:53 AM   #109
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Slackware since many... many years
 
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Old 06-03-2016, 04:18 AM   #110
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Cool Primary Desktop System
Hi, I consider Linux to be my primary desktop system of choice.
I am currently running Fedora 22 on my main system, but have started trying out Fedora 24 beta on an old laptop that looks promising.

I do use a windows system for some tasks, mainly apps that will not work or do not have an equivalent app in Linux!

I have been running Linux like this for about 3 years now after some earlier attempts many years ago that were not successful...

I hope this helps anyone considering running Linux for the first time....
 
Old 06-03-2016, 08:13 AM   #111
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I use Q4os on my no. 2 desktop and windows 10 on my main pc
Q4OS is a decent and very much underated distro.
 
Old 06-03-2016, 08:15 AM   #112
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Some (Adobe, mainly) "specialist" application forms seem to require Windows, as it happened I did use Windows VMs in the past for that purpose. This laptop was sold with Windows 8 (now has Windows 10) and the license is non-transferable so no VMs allowed (any comparable laptop would have cost a lot more with Linux installed).
I see, thanks for claryfying that. I hate the restrictions that come with m$. Also adobe tend to suck often.
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Old 06-03-2016, 08:50 AM   #113
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manjaro linux

i do everything with linux
gave up windoz 8 years ago
linux rocks
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Old 06-03-2016, 09:39 AM   #114
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I Like Linux
My System Primarily boot from various versions of Ubuntu but I mainly works with Windows XP
 
Old 06-03-2016, 10:33 AM   #115
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Which Desktop Operating System Do You Consider Your Primary?
Primary is CentOs 6.6 , connecting to various vm's Solaris 8, 10 , windoze 2000, xp, 7 & 10.. Very convoluted environment.
 
Old 06-03-2016, 11:11 AM   #116
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Have to say Windows. Use Linux VMs only for embedded Linux development.
 
Old 06-03-2016, 11:32 AM   #117
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O.S.
After trying REDHAT in the 90's went to UBUNTU, been there ever since.
 
Old 06-03-2016, 11:43 AM   #118
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I've been running Slackware Linux since 2.2.0.1, and recently built a machine running Linux Mint. Which relegates my Windows 7 box to third place in usage.
 
Old 06-03-2016, 11:44 AM   #119
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Linux since the past 8 years now. I started off with Ubuntu, since the past 2 years, I build my own :-) (LFS/BLFS)
 
Old 06-03-2016, 11:45 AM   #120
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Linux is my primary OS.
Distro : OpenSUSE Leap 42.1
Desktop : KDE-Plasma5
Mode : Dual Boot . The secondary is Windows 10 which is the disaster backup . So far I did not had such disasters with Linux .
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