How many operating systems do you typically use between work and play?

Since I'm retired, should I still answer this?

Well anyway, it's XP and Windows 7 all the way for me. I have a couple of machines capable of dual boot with Ubuntu 15.xx. They keep me on my toes to quick click through the boot menu, so as to avoid having to use Linux...

And FWIW, I've never encountered more than a half dozen BSODs with XP since 2005! I realize I'll catch flack for this, but XP is still my favorite OS. It's light on hardware requirements, and long on performance with ease of use thrown in for good measure. I eagerly await your comments....:p :cool:
 
I like Vista
I have a laptop with Vista installed. For me, the fact it has Vista is a very neutral factor. It's Windows, it works like Windows, and it works well.

Much of the issue with Vista, was not Vista, but rather the lack of support from the bulk of software houses and peripheral hardware makers at the time. Video cards and whatnot had a lack of fully compatible drivers for several months. By the time the gap had closed, M$ had bailed on the OS and released Windows 7. (Which kinda worked well with the now widely available Vista drivers).

Anyway, Vista suffered some perhaps unwarranted criticism for it's unfamiliar memory usage strategy. (Which was granted, improved by 7).

So, what you basically wound up with in Vista, was a face lifted XP, with long overdue native SATA, (or "AHCI", if you prefer), drivers. And face it, installing those Intel "pre-SATA drivers halfway through an XP install, was a major PITA. Then there was the aggravation of hunting down SATA controller cards as well, before they began equipping motherboards with them.
 
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Once you patch Vista up, it's basically just Windows 7... you'll notice they have virtually the same driver set...

Still, given the choice, 7 would be the way to go...

I run Win 10 Pro on my laptop and main PC, work PCs (I'm a teacher, so school) have Win 7 (a few have XP, but they're TERRIBLE - Pentium 4s that are painful for browsing)...

iOS 9 on my iPads and iPhone... have a couple older desktops, one with linux (used to use it for CyberArmy) and one with Windows 3.1 (for playing old PC games)...

Oh, and an old Mac LC - used solely to play Glider and MacRisk :)
 
Once you patch Vista up, it's basically just Windows 7... you'll notice they have virtually the same driver set...
Exactly what I said. Lack of drivers killed Vista, and when the drivers caught up, Win 7 was released, using virtually the same set. Vista was killed off to eliminate the stink & stigma caused by its growing pains, in the exact same way the later Win 8.0 met its fate....:eek:

Still, given the choice, 7 would be the way to go...
Right. The basic enticement there is, "Vista "Home Home", or whatever M$ called it was dropped, and the slightly higher priced, (but now the entry level), Windows 7 "Home Premium" took its place. It had a native DVD player, which was a step up option in Vista, along with the improved Aero interface and slide show wallpaper option.

Never having a copy of XP or Vista which came with Windows Media Center, I can't speak with certainty, but I believe WMC was given a lot of improvement for use in Win 7 as well.

Living by myself as I do, and being willing to accept responsibility for any of my own, "I shouldn't have clicked on that", mistakes I might make, "the improved UAC" in 7 is a completely worthless annoyance. (IMHO, as it were).
 
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Me too. Probably most stable system I ever owned post W2K. Never crapped out, never BSOD. I laugh at all who spit on it. Never had single problem with Vista.
I suspect Vista would have always been much more stable in a pre-built machine, rather than a DIY home brew. Simply by virtue of the fact manufacturers had staff on site who could code their way out of any issues which might arise, while the home builder, unfamiliar with it, would be sitting around scratching his or her head in wonder and confusion.

Even here, some people were suffering from "nostalgia" as late as Win 7, insisting you needed to, "set the BIOS to run the HDDs as IDE", if you weren't going to install a SATA controller card.

Like I said before, I've never had any issues with the Vista laptop I own. It doesn't get a whole heck of a lot of use, but it boots and runs fine when I need it to.

M$ was actually out ahead of potential problems with their "Vista Upgrade Advisor". That program took one look at my eMachines P-4 junker, and pretty much said "fuhgeddaboutit, no Vista for you". (In non mob terms, drivers for the system would most certainly not be forthcoming).

Besides, during that time period, due to the price of retail full copies being as astronomical as they were, I suspect many opted opted to buy the "upgrade edition". I've always been scared to death of that approach to a new OS. Meh, maybe I'm just a bit superstitious. :confused:
 
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I use Windows 10 on work computer and my gaming computer. I use iOS on my phone and tablet. My general purpose computers are running Fedora 23
 
Windows 7 on PC, Android on mobile, Windows Server 2012 on servers, pfSense on firewall also have DD-WRT on one older device.
 
Phone: Anrdoid 6.1 (LG G4 latest update)
Tablet: Anrdoid 5.1 (Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5)
Home PC: Windows 10
Work Laptop: Windows 8.1 customised by the company.
 
Windows 7 at work, Windows 10 at home, Android Marshmallow on the go.

I think my work is moving to Windows 10 soon. I'm excited to try the multiple desktop feature at work to try to keep my 25 open tools and applications a little more organized.
 
At Home:
Android on tablets and Shield TV
Ubuntu, Mac OSX, Win 7, Win 10 across all the PCs

At Work:
Android on my cell and tablet
Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Win 7 Ent, Win 8.1 Ent, Win 10 Ent, Win Server 2012 R2 across all PCs and servers
Raspbian for each of my 30+ 3D printers
 
I use Windows 10 on my main workstation in the office, connecting to numerous OS' over the course of an average day.
With any regularity I use:
iOS (app testing)
Android (app testing, regular phone)
Windows XP Embedded (older Point-of-Sale terminals)
Windows 7 Embedded (newer Point-of-Sale terminals)
Windows 7 (customer machines, workstations in office)
Windows 8.1 (customer machines, personal rig with custom shell in use)
Windows 10 (Macbook Pro with BootCamp, main desktop workstation)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (Customer sites, getting less common as servers decommissioned)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (RDS, Exchange, SQL Server, Domain Controller - both in-house and customer sites)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials (Home Domain Controller, SQL, Plex)
Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (Sandboxed dev environment)

Mac OS X (printer testing, code debugging)

Ubuntu (various releases, primarily web servers and phone systems)

QTS (a custom implementation of Debian by QNap for their NAS offerings)


But again, depends on if you count certain ones as OS's or not. I personally wouldn't count Cisco IOS or SAN as OS's. so more like 15.
I'm with you, Burty117. I wouldn't count Cisco IOS as an OS either. I'm not 100% about calling QTS an OS myself, as it is really just a custom Debian. I figure if we're breaking out all the different Windows versions then we kind of have to include the little guys.
 
One, Win10 Pro on home desktop/home entertainment PC. Retired as well so no work PC, tablet died, no phone so...
 
Windows 10, Windows 7, Amiga OS, Linux and Android. So 5 not including whatever is on the Xbox 360 (Some kind of windows system I guess)
 
Personal
Android 6.0 for phone
Windows 10 for PC
Android / Amazon Fire OS / Kodi for TV
Synology DSM for home media server
DDW-RT for rotuer

Work
Apple iOS for Work Phone
Server 2012 R2 for Work PC
Vmware ESXi for work
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Work

A lot more other OS's for work, but then I work in computer networking.
 
Let's see
  1. primary laptop win/7 pro sp1
  2. there's also the Cygwin Emulator for development
  3. wife's OS X 10.11
  4. boat anchor win/98 SE file server
  5. Linux Redhat 7 web server
  6. and a Redhat v6 backup system
  7. iPad & iPhone both STILL on 7.1.2
Then too there's the firmware for the two routers router

Before anyone quips on the down level versions, save your breath - - I know why I've elected to freeze these systems.
 
It has certainly gone way down for me since my programming days from the mid 80s to the end of the 90s. Although I didn't program for them, I used to deal with VAX/VMS and Unix just because all of the servers on the campus where I worked ran those. I wrote apps to run on every x86 desktop and server version of DOS, Windows, and OS/2 in the 80s and 90s. Never dealt much with any Apple OSes except during my university classes in the early 80s. I did play around with Linux a little bit in the late 90s and early 2000s.

I especially remembered running Win 3.x and Win95 on top of OS/2 on my primary workstation while developing Windows apps. We didn't have things like VMWare in those days so OS/2 gave me a development environment for Windows apps that didn't require a reboot for every stupid little bug I wrote: I'd just close the BSOD Windows window and open a new one.

These days I only deal with the OSes on my personal devices: Win7 and Win10 on my desktop and laptop and Android on my phone.
 
Home - Active Use: Windows 10 on PC and Laptops, Android 4.4 on Tablet and Android 6.0.1 on Smartphone
Home - Inactive Use: Windows 7, Windows XP, iOS (forgot which version) on iPhone, Android 4.2.2 on Backup Smartphone
Work - Windows 7 on Work Computer / CCTV DVR units, Linux on Multiple units and iOS 9 on Tablet

I ran into Windows 95 recently while fixing a clients computer.... That was an interesting day.
 
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