The 2021 Operating System Thread

[Topcat]

As usual, vote the OS on whatever would be considered your 'main' system....we'll see how many Se7en users we've lost compared to last year...

[televizora]

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My primary OS at home is Windows7. At work is Windows10 and I am thinking of replacing it with Windows7.
I also found a way to activate Windows 10 offline.
Anything older than Windows7 does not support new software.
Also, Microsoft released WindowsServer HyperV only as a free software. No GUI, but newer client versions of Windows have integrated management consoles for this, so GUI is not required. You do not need any activation. I never expected that Microsoft will ever release anything as freebie.

[eccerr0r]

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I have one copy of Win7 and now it's completely useless to me, I might well delete and reallocate it to...















Linux...

Odd that Wine works and Win7 does not, then again the particular windows software keeps updating and forces people to update their OS too *sigh*.

And hooray my win8 tablet lives again after apparently the PMIC got confused... crap design... Alas Linux support for the tablet last checked was pretty poor.

[televizora]

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I have one copy of Win7 and now it's completely useless to me, I might well delete and reallocate it to...

What is this software, if this is not a secret?

[ratdude747]

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Need an Option for other/mixed. Not counting officially retired/unusable systems:

Workstations (four of them, all dual Xeon or Opteron), Kitchen AIO, and work Laptop (Company Provided Latitude Rugged): windows 10
Main Laptop (Latitude E6430): Arch Linux + windows 7 x64
Travel Laptop (Thinkpad T440): Arch Linux (Posting from it!)
Spare laptop (Modded Asus X83V): Arch Linux + Windows 10
Spare laptop (Latitude D630): Arch Linux + Windows 7 x64 + Windows XP x32
Church AV laptop (Thinkpad T41): Windows 7 x64
Church AV Systems: (Acer Veriton for slideshows, a 2007 iMac for video, and a late model Powemac G5 for audio): Windows 10, Mac OSX El Captain, Mac OSX Leopard (respectively)
Bay Trail Tablets (Asus Transformer T200TA and an HP 8" ???): Modded Windows 8.1
Wife's Mostly Disused laptop (Dell inspiron 17" ???): Windows 7
Server: Debian Linux (CLI only)
Work VDI account: windows 7 (need to ask IT about upgrading it to 10).

Yep, one hot mess

[Uranium-235]

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bay trail lol. I have some fanless laptops that use that poor SOC

[ratdude747]

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bay trail lol. I have some fanless laptops that use that poor SOC

Compared to the older atoms, these actually kick ass. Quite capable chips actually.

That said, they'll likely be semi-retired now that I'm running a dedicated truck (travel) laptop. Not as powerful as my main laptop (can't really run minecraft), but slimmer and more streamlined. Bought it for peanuts off a buddy who was having a hard time flipping it (cosmetically skunked, but functional).

[lti]

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I also have a mix.

Main desktop: Windows 10
"Good" laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad P53): Windows 10 (maybe Linux in the future)
POS laptop (Toshiba Satellite L750): Windows 7 and Lubuntu
Other POS laptop (HP Pavilion ze1210): Windows XP and some ancient version of Ubuntu
Other POS laptop (Gateway Solo 2500): Windows 98SE
Old desktop (upgraded Compaq Presario 2286): Windows 98 "First Edition"

I was going to give the Toshiba laptop to my mom because she asked me for advice on new laptops under $300. I think she would be better off with it if she doesn't want to spend more. When (or if) she actually claims it, I will be free of Windows 7.

[TechGeek]

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Main computer, Main Office Computer, the disk handler system/media player, and on-the-go laptop: Debian Testing
APCUPSD Server: Debian 10
Fileserver: Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
Spare gaming rig, main laptop: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS

[dmill89]

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Need an Option for other/mixed.

Same, I voted Win-10 since my two most heavily used systems (New work laptop and Main personal laptop) are now on 10, but I have a mix of both 10 and 7 and some Linux as well.

New work laptop (HP Z-Book Studio G5): Windows 10 Enterprise.
Old work laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T450): Windows 7 Enterprise (with paid extended support, eventually I'm supposed to send this back in, but I still have it for certain programs pending some software issues on my new Laptop).
Main Personal Laptop (Dell Precision M4800): Windows 10 Professional.
Main Desktop (Custom Built, I7-4790 and GTX1070): Windows 7 Professional.
Personal Travel Laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T430): Windows 7 Professional.
Secondary Desktop (Dell Precision T3500): Windows 7 Professional
Main (living room) Media Center (Custom Built, C2D E8500 and Radeon HD5830): Windows XP SP3
Secondary (master bedroom) Media Center (Dell OptiPlex 790 SFF): Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.


Of course I have more "experimental" and "retro" systems, but these are the ones used on a somewhat regular basis.

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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As usual, vote the OS on whatever would be considered your 'main' system....we'll see how many Se7en users we've lost compared to last year...

Need an Option for other/mixed. Not counting officially retired/unusable systems:

Main Laptop (Latitude E6430): Arch Linux + windows 7 x64

yeah i think the issue here is that some of us here have dual booting OSes on our main rigs, so what do we vote for if that is the case? the OS we use most often or the OS we use mainly on our main rigs?

[R_J]

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I mostly use windows 7, I have a hard drive with windows 10 which I swap in once in a while just to update it, which it is doing now (kb4592438) downloading and installing for the last 2 hours.( its at 47%) It still has kb4586876 pending. This is why I don't like windows 1.0
So I am using my trusty windows XP computer to enter this.

[rsjsouza]

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I have a selection of systems here as well...
Main rendering and home desktop: win7
Surveillance system: win7 (isolated from the net)
Spare laptop: win8
Wife's laptop: win8
Ancient netbook: Q4OS
Main work machine: win10
Secondary work machines: OSX Catalina, Ubuntu 20.04

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Both Ryzen rigs: Windows 10 2004

The socket 1366 rig, which of course has a first-gen Core i7: Windows 7 SP1

[Heihachi_73]

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My E7400 is still running Vista with good old Firefox 52.9.0 ESR.

The number of websites that still load on Firefox 52 is slowly diminishing.

[televizora]

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The number of websites that still load on Firefox 52 is slowly diminishing.

I have some sites, that load only on Firefox52.

[Topcat]

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The number of websites that still load on Firefox 52 is slowly diminishing.

I've noticed this with 56.x ESR as well. Mostly banking and higher security sites.

FWIW, my main rig (office system) is still running W7. No plans to change that....it has so much crap on it that I use all the time, a migration would be a huge disaster.

[televizora]

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FWIW, my main rig (office system) is still running W7. No plans to change that....it has so much crap on it that I use all the time, a migration would be a huge disaster.

If you are adventurous person, you can try upgrading?

[Topcat]

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If you are adventurous person, you can try upgrading?

I'm not that adventurous.

...and well, I'm still getting security updates for 7 on this machine...even after that ends, I'll still roll with it a little longer. This machine being out of service would be a big mess in the event of an upgrade explosion. When 7 first came out, I couldn't stand it....then came SP1 for it, which fixed all the really quirky crap, and I warmed up to it. 10 has been out for ~6yrs, I still haven't warmed up to it yet.... If it were a Fisher-Price toy, it'd be called "My first operating system"....but I will say, it functions decent. All the privacy issues is my biggest gripe with 10. Yes, I know if one is clever enough, they can make it shut up.....but what pisses me off is that I have to even do that in the first place.

[dmill89]

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If you are adventurous person, you can try upgrading?

I'm not that adventurous.

X2, most "in-place" upgrades I've seen from 7 to 10 ended up being a total disaster. They did a ton of them at work and most people I know who got one ended up having to spend half a day on with the service desk (people who had been involved with hundreds of these upgrades who knew what they likely issues would be and how to fix them) to fix all the issues afterwards (luckily I had incompatible software on my machine so I stayed on 7 until my laptop came up for replacement, as noted in my previous post I still have my old laptop for these specific programs as well, though that is a temporary solution, eventually they'll either get them working on 10 or give me a non-internet connected win 7 VDI for those programs since they really want to end paid support to Microsoft by 2022 and per our policies an unsupported OS can't be connected to the internet for security reasons).

With both my new work laptop and main personal laptop these were new machines (in the case of the personal laptop off-lease, but new to me) with fresh windows 10 installs and aside from all the windows 10 "annoyances" I haven't had any issues.

I've been holding off upgrading my main desktop for the same reasons Topcat lists, I know an in place upgrade would end up being a disaster with all the software it has on it, so I would need to do a fresh install (and reinstall everything else that is on it) which will be a giant pain in the butt that I will likely put off as long as possible (until 3rd party software support gets to the point it is unusable).