What's your main operating system? (Poll)

[Vgkid]

Windows Vista 32 bit...

[MacAttak]

I use private repositories on GitHub to share code and other files between the two desks.

Please have a look at Bittorrent Sync. I have around 250 GB of stuff shared between Windows and Linux clients and works really great. Real-time sync but no revision control.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I do also occasionally publish things to public domain on github. I also never write code or documents without version control in place.

I also run crashplan for backup to both a local NAS drive and online (for all three systems) - one can never be too cautious when it comes to source code.

[rickselectricalprojects]

I use windows to program microcontrollers and arduino and to do school work, use my ipad to buy components and find schematics and I use Linux (well, raspbian) when I use my raspberry pi.

[Dinsdale]

Slackware. Since '95. Had to use XP and 7 on my last job. Glad that's over with!

[radiomog]

my main computer is Linux

but I have a host of other computers

a couple with Linux, the rest are Windows.
I've got a win98se on an old laptop, the bigger machines run XP, XPsp3, Vista, 7 and 8

[n45048]

I run Windows 7 Ultimate. x64. Every now and then if I need an older version of Windows or DOS, I'll fire it up in Oracle VM VirtualBox.

[TSL]

whatever let's me run the application i want to use.

Sometimes windows, sometimes OsX , hardly ever anything *nix or *ux ...

LOL.... OsX _IS_ unix .. its a BSD variant
cheers

Tim

[TSL]

I run Windows 7 for Diptrace, Labview, GPIB toolkit, MACH3 and others.

I run Ubuntu 14.04 Linux for InkScape, OpenCAM, PCBtoGCODE and others.

I work with Solaris all day long cause that's my day job

cheers

Tim

[Psi]

My desk has 3 monitors on it, a 30" and a 24" which are connected to my windows 7 box as dual monitors. The 3rd monitor is a 24" connected to my linux box running ubuntu and lightdm.
The linux box is linked to the windows box using synergy. This way i can use one keyboard/mouse and the cursor can move between all monitors.

[mtdoc]

At home I've got 2 OSX boxes , 2 Windows 7 boxes and 2 XP boxes running at any one time and occasionally a Raspian Pi.  By necessity it seems most of my electronics is done on a Windows 7 laptop and an older XP tower that lives in my lab. I wish I could do it all in OSX.

Oh and at work I'm trapped in a crappy VMware Windows 7 thin client running Epic (an electronic medical record) with my dictation being screwed up by Dragon voice recognition... 

[westfw]

Switch often.  My "system of choice" is MacOS, but of course many IDEs and EE-like tools don't run on Macs, so I have numerous Windows VMs (one for ARMs, one for PICs, two for AVRs, one for the digilentInc Analog Discovery, and a W8.1 and W10 VM to make sure things still work there.)  There's also the linux VM for ESP8266, and various experimental linux variants; Even a W98 VM.
There's also a W7 laptop that gets carted to seminars, and the kids are all using Windows 7 or 8.1 (Each with a desktop and a laptop.)
And an ancient Dell2400 (XP) running the LPKF and the Needham device programmer.  (then there are the "basically unused" systems.  Some people just shouldn't be given access to eWaste bins.  Although I *did* take back all the 386 systems :-))

[Whales]

I'm an Arch Linux user with i3 as my window manager.

Until recently my computers were always made from scavenged parts.  Around 2007 Vista made me try out alternatives and I stuck with Ubuntu/Debian until gnome 2 dissipated.

My steam-powered parents have been on Linux Mint for a few years.  Linux is neither this nor that for most people -- it's the software stacked on top that makes the experience.  If it doesn't crash and has everything they want, they're fine with it.  If it breaks and it confuses them, it's no good.   When you hear "Evolution is having a spaz attack!" for the many-eth time, it's worth dumping the IMAP client and moving them to gmail, for example.

[SteveyG]

I use Linux on my server, along with some Linux VMs for various things that run on it, but all my PCs are Windows 7. IMO using Linux for an everyday PC is just generally slightly more painful than it should be as something always doesn't quite work correctly - usually Ralink drivers  . Windows just works, and I have zero problems with 7.

[rob77]

on my own gear it's : Ubuntu 14.10 with UEFI boot in my lab (cute little miniITX with 4cores and 8G ram) ,  Debian 7 on my HP microserver , windows 8.1 and android on my tablets.
on my work laptop:  windows 7

so i'm using more operating systems (as anyone else)... linux for SW and HW development , windows for office and all of them for browsing

[bingo600]

Linux Mint for desktops & laptops.
Debat 7 for servers.
One laptop is Mint/win7 dualboot , but rarely booted onto win7.

I also Fame from ubuntu but switched when they made Their new desktop , and close Linux Mint mate,to get back gnome2


/Bingo

[Dago]

Ubuntu with i3 window manager. Sometimes use windows when I want to use something like SolidWorks which does not run well in a VM.

[c4757p]

I didn't realize i3 was so popular!

[nanofrog]

Primarily run Win 7, 64 bit, but I also run Ubuntu on occasion.

[steve30]

My main machine has Debian GNU/Linux with a desktop environment consisting of a combination of Fluxbox and Rox Filer. It also has Windows XP and FreeDOS partitions for the rare occasion I use them.

I have some older desktops running Windows 2000, MacOS 9, and Windows 95. My laptops have Windows 95 and MacOS8.6. My other older computers are Amigas and have either Amiga OS 2 or 3 .

[orin]

I switch often because my work requires what I write to work on Windows, OS X, iOS and Android.

So my main machine at work runs Windows Server 2012 R2.  My secondary machine is a Mac Mini.  Then there is a scattering of Windows laptops and Android tablets.

FWIW, it is more reliable to develop for Android on the Mac Mini than Windows - at least native mode debugging works with Eclipse/ADT which is more than can be said for trying to run it under Windows.

Of the current operating systems, I prefer Windows 7.  The Windows 8 UI is a joke (I immediately install "Classic Shell" on any Windows 8 or greater machine) and I really don't know what they were thinking when they used that ridiculous UI theme for server management.

Linux as a desktop OS isn't really a player for me at the moment, though I have run it in a VM for some online classes.

[Tepe]

One that makes it possible to perform the task at hand with as little pain as possible. Not necessarily on a physical machine.

[george graves]

One week I decided to try Ubuntu full time on a laptop I use for electronics only (I can't risk my main editing rig)

OS installed fine, but so many gaps.  I shouldn't have to do 10 sudo commands to install something that should be two clicks away.

I think the best thing is that Ubuntu(and the like) dies, so that people/someone will come up with something that is actually usable.  As it is Ubuntu devs wont let go of the sudo command.  Nerd cred I suppose.

My suspetion....It's literally there so that they sill have credibility as a nerdy OS. 

[Monkeh]

One week I decided to try Ubuntu full time on a laptop I use for electronics only (I can't risk my main editing rig)

OS installed fine, but so many gaps.  I shouldn't have to do 10 sudo commands to install something that should be two clicks away.

I think the best thing is that Ubuntu(and the like) dies, so that people/someone will come up with something that is actually usable.  As it is Ubuntu devs wont let go of the sudo command.  Nerd cred I suppose.

My suspetion....It's literally there so that they sill have credibility as a nerdy OS.

Why should I have to go to ten different websites and tell my computer yes, I do want to download this, yes, I do want to run this, yes,  I do want to let it make changes to my system, just to get a few programs installed?

[c4757p]

As it is Ubuntu devs wont let go of the sudo command.  Nerd cred I suppose.

My suspetion....It's literally there so that they sill have credibility as a nerdy OS.

Yes, as opposed to Windows, where to get the same effect you click "run as administrator" and then give a password.

Much less nerdy when the button for the same exact procedure is on the mouse instead of the keyboard. So nerdcred. Much sudo. Wow.

And you were probably doing it wrong, as it'll happily take that password via a GUI and has GUI configuration tools for nearly everything. Were you following instructions found online, perchance? Those are typically given for the command line because it's easier that way to make sure the person following them is doing the right thing.

[nctnico]

One week I decided to try Ubuntu full time on a laptop I use for electronics only (I can't risk my main editing rig)

OS installed fine, but so many gaps.  I shouldn't have to do 10 sudo commands to install something that should be two clicks away.

I think the best thing is that Ubuntu(and the like) dies, so that people/someone will come up with something that is actually usable.

Buy an Apple with OSX. OSX is Linux which works out of the box 

The reason I'm using Linux is because it works and keeps working. In many ways it is also much faster than Windows and stays that way. The biggest slowdown in Windows is it's memory management. Windows tries to keep as much of the precious memory unused. This means that it will start putting things into swap (on the hard drive) the minute you start it.