The 2014~2015 Operating System Thread

[stj]

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it needs updating for fools testing win10 - beta spyware edition.
and maybe FreeDOS

[popeye]

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I have 2desktops with xp and a laptop with xp also I have desktop with win 7 and laptop with win7

[momaka]

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^
thanks for the bump...... that way more will participate!

No probs
I figured we got way more discussion last year.
I'm surprised more people put votes for Windows (H)8 than than for XP.

[JuniperSprouts]

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vSphere (I know, it isn't really...)

Smoothwall

Windows 2008
Windows 7
Windows 8.1
XP
98Lite

Debian
Tiny Core Linux
Damn Small Linux

FreeBSD 9.3

OS X 10.6.8

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They all have their uses, some more than others. Not counting VMs as actual OSs, otherwise the list would be quite longer.

[Andrew F. Ali]

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Windows 8.1 0n My DELL Inspiron i3847-4616BK Tower Desktop
Intel Gen 4 i5/8GB/1TB

[chozo4]

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Picked other as I'm using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x86 on my desktop with MS-Dos as dual boot for quick recovery purposes. My laptop runs Win98se however with the Kernel Patch (KernelEx), Skinning Engine (Revolutions Pack), and unofficial ServicePack 3 installed however. My WRT54g-TM Router is running DD-Wrt with bash and the ilk installed which works nice for my 24/7 webserver via lighttpd.

Seems TC and myself have the nice idea of using a Windows Server OS for regular desktop use.

[Topcat]

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Seems TC and myself have the nice idea of using a Windows Server OS for regular desktop use.

S2K3 doesnt go EoL until next july iirc, so you're good for a while. Wait till you get your hands on S2K8 and carve it into a workstation OS, you'll love it. S2K8 R1 has 32 bit support if thats what you need. R2 is 64 bit only.

[chozo4]

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S2K3 doesnt go EoL until next july iirc, so you're good for a while. Wait till you get your hands on S2K8 and carve it into a workstation OS, you'll love it. S2K8 R1 has 32 bit support if thats what you need. R2 is 64 bit only.

Lack of support doesn't ever phase me as my desktop used to run Win98 till '06 or so but changed to xp/s2k3 due to lack of GPU support. I continue to use an OS until it no longer fits my needs even if that does mean 10 years after EoL.

The only reason I haven't changed to the newer server versions is mainly the interface. Cannot disable 'always on top' with the taskbar which is needed in many cases due to a custom desktop solution and cannot remove the address bar garbage from the explorer windows. I tend to prefer them barren with just the file menu's and status bar only. Silly reasons I know but it's one of those things that drive me up the wall in more ways than one.

As for 32bit support - the WOW64 support layer is still available in S2k8R2 but is instead an optional component.

[Pentium4]

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Windows 7 Pro/Ultimate on ALL of my desktops and laptops. OpenBSD on my firewall

[momaka]

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Saw this today:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/friday-th...351739909.html
Yeah, I know it's a Yahoo! story (who trusts those? lol ), but according to it, computer manufacturers will no longer be able to buy Windows 7.

I guess Micro$haft really is trying to force that Windows 8 crap down everyone's throat.
On the plus side, all of you who work in repair shops will likely get a new influx of customers bringing their laptop or PC for a Windows 7 upgrade .

[TELVM]

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^ Surreal but true: Windows 8 or nowt: Consumer Win 7 fans are OUT OF LUCK


Killing your most liked and best selling product in favour of the most hated piece of crap ever released is a revolutionary business strategy that can only lead to a humongous success.

[c_hegge]

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The Big brands like HP and Dell already stopped selling new PCs with Windows 7 Home Premium pretty much as soon as Windows Hate came out. With that said, though, at work we still do. It just means that we'll have to use windows 7 Pro if the customer doesn't want Windows Hate.

[stj]

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windows late is now obsolete.

it's late-point-one for now,
and they are rushing the beta's of 10 right now.
(yes, they skipped 9 - wanted 10 to seem like more than an upgrade of 8 i suppose)

[Uniballer]

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I like FreeBSD for a lot of things (including this desktop I'm using now).
I use Linux when it is easier to make it work well than BSD (e.g. Elastix PBX and Zoneminder video surveillance).
Most users here use the Windows 7 boxes I set up for them.
My wife insists on Apple OS/X and IOS (schoolteacher who uses that stuff at work).

Still Windows 8.x free!

[Heihachi_73]

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I don't care, I'll still be using XP even when Windows 12 comes out.

[stj]

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that's optimistic, they may not last till 12.

windows-fone - fail
zune player - fail
"surface" tablet - not exactly i-pad/android sales numbers.
xbox-one - failing against ps4 heavily

windows - how much does this really make?
dont tell me the retail price, what's the bulk price for people like dell or hp?

and then there is office, they wont sell that anymore - nobody wants an online "cloud" linked 12month leasing version.

most of ms's real income comes from server-edition licenses to big corps - and i suspect those wont last.
i know an admin at a very big financial group, he told me several years ago that they ran server on a vmware hypervisor so it didnt know how many cpu's they had.
it was saving them a *very* large amount of license money doing this.

[Dan81]

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that's optimistic, they may not last till 12.

windows-fone - fail
zune player - fail
"surface" tablet - not exactly i-pad/android sales numbers.
xbox-one - failing against ps4 heavily

windows - how much does this really make?
dont tell me the retail price, what's the bulk price for people like dell or hp?

and then there is office, they wont sell that anymore - nobody wants an online "cloud" linked 12month leasing version.

most of ms's real income comes from server-edition licenses to big corps - and i suspect those wont last.
i know an admin at a very big financial group, he told me several years ago that they ran server on a vmware hypervisor so it didnt know how many cpu's they had.
it was saving them a *very* large amount of license money doing this.

And weird enough,the original Xbox brick was the best they could make.

[Uniballer]

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I think this old article by a well-known author about operating system choices is still relevant: In the Beginning was the Command Line

[dj_ricoh]

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come on where is windows 10

its bad to say i have a notebook every os possible except win2000?

even win98 on a panasonic toughbook CF

one thing i did not got is a a chromebook and i`m working on that Chromium OS

[SuperDuty]

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Windows 7 on all the everyday use computers, Windows Me on my old games rig.

Windows 8 has some good points, but it's a pain to use unless you know the all the keyboard shortcuts.

I'm looking forward to Windows 10, but I hope they won't drop Windows 7 support too soon. I can't find any real flaws with 7, it runs well on everything I've installed it on so far. It's stable, light, very flexible (I used one installation of 7 on three very different machines and it boot like it was nothing). The BSODs I've seen with 7 are only hardware related.
I've never really liked Windows XP, I used it from 2003 to january 2010, switching to 7 was like a breathe of fresh air.