Do you use Windows Mac Linux Chrome OS or other device

Windows 10 for gaming, development and general power usage. Has a 4K monitor which I can use to remote desktop into my work PC (3 screens, also Windows 10) and cascade them into the one screen.

OS X (macbook air) was originally purchased to learn iOS development, but is now used as just a laptop and occasionally for music recording. Linux Mint on some old hardware to act as a media center hooked up to the TV.

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I don't think that was ever cool. It was done a lot, but it wasn't cool. :pac:

*raises hand*

Guilty. I wasn't cool then and I still am not cool. My current CPU is a i5 2500K from 2011, but is still perfectly fine for development and gaming.

RIGHTisRIGHT wrote: »

I gave up using PCs years ago the last one I had was using Widows Vista.

Is Windows 10 a pain free experience these days?

I never liked Vista.

Windows 10 is great. One great feature for me is that I can stream games from my Xbox One to my laptop/tablet.

I use Windows 7 at work.

At home, I use Windows 7 as well but this is only for gaming. It's a very clean partition with only Steam and a few other applications installed such as anti-virus, malware removers, VLC, winamp, emulators and browsers.

I have Kubuntu on another partition and this is where I spend most of my time. I used to use Ubuntu but they changed the UI sometime around version 12.04 to some tablet hybrid nonsense so I switched to Kubuntu and never looked back. It looks, feels and works very similarly to Windows.

I can understand why linux can be difficult for people. You often need to google the windows equivalent of a program. For example, you might be used to utorrent on windows so you might instead need to use ktorrent on linux. Worse than that, other software such as games or MS Office just won't exist and similar linux programs just won't do.

There's also a few myths still floating around such as linux being command-line only, that there's a lot of text file configuration required and that drivers won't work. I haven't encountered this myself in years but I'm sure that if you use slackware or redhat server that this might be the case. It's not the case with the modern user-friendly distros.

My favourite thing about linux though is that I can browse and download questionable content safely without getting a malware infection. It's not perfectly secure but its market share is low enough on home desktops that it's more profitable for those pesky russians to target Windows.

riclad wrote: »

IF you want a fast secure private os,
then linux is the best choice ,especially for older pcs or laptops .

If you want a fast, secure, private os, then get to know your os inside out, and don't run it on antique hardware. Windows will run on older hardware too if you skin it down to the same level as some linux distros, but for the average user, they'll be able to do fcuk all on it. By that standard, I've seen some places still using DOS on ancient hardware, because it does a very specific job, and it does it very well. It's suitable for it's purpose.

If you want really want fast, secure and private on old hardware, there's BeOS... for sadomasochists!! :pac:

Who need a macintosh when you can have a Hackintosh! Everything on the one machine! ^^

Its easier to install it as a Virtual OS these days since apple now uses intel hardware from what I was reading. Regardless being able to run OSX on a pc is a better solution since apple tends to use lower spec hardware in its own machines.