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

[wizardB]

Let's see
Win 10 on the test box
Win 7 on the gaming rig
Suse Linux on the work machine
Korora on my laptop
Pepermint on the wifes laptop
FreeNas on the Nas server
Android and win10 on 1 tablet
Android on phone
WebOS on another phone
and a few others on various other pieces of hardware

 

[ajac63]

Windows XP Professional at work, because the ppl in charge won't upgrade - and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit at home , because I've not decided yet to upgrade to Windows 10

 

[wizardB]

Windows XP Professional at work, because the ppl in charge won't upgrade - and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit at home , because I've not decided yet to upgrade to Windows 10

don't down grade to 10 at this point it really isn't ready np matter what the hype says...Use Gibson's tool to delay it and get a copy of Do Not spy 7/8 to stop Microsoft from turning your win 7 machine into a reporting station for them.

 

[Squid Surprise]

Or upgrade to 10 and use google to turn that stuff off.... Then take advantage of the performance benefits of 10...

 

[ajac63]

don't down grade to 10 at this point it really isn't ready np matter what the hype says...Use Gibson's tool to delay it and get a copy of Do Not spy 7/8 to stop Microsoft from turning your win 7 machine into a reporting station for them.

I'll go with that. Windows 7 is spying enough it seems, so I don't want any more of it.

 

[ajac63]

Or upgrade to 10 and use google to turn that stuff off.... Then take advantage of the performance benefits of 10...

Maybe, if you can actually get google to turn off what windows does. I wish I could get windows to turn off some of what google does...

 

[captaincranky]

Maybe, if you can actually get google to turn off what windows does. I wish I could get windows to turn off some of what google does...

I'm wondering if you pull the internet cable off your computer, will that stop what Windows 10 transmits in the way of your personal data, or will it save it up and the next time you plug in, it will be like the doors of the Library of Alexandria were flung open wide.....

 

[ajac63]

I'm wondering if you pull the internet cable off your computer, will that stop what Windows 10 transmits in the way of your personal data, or will it save it up and the next time you plug in, it will be like the doors of the Library of Alexandria were flung open wide.....

I don't know about Windows 10 myself don't yet have it, but for Windows 7 (also XP, 98se) I've done this so many times I've lost count. Sometimes if you power-down the router it works, sometimes it doesn't and Windows 'saves it up' for next time. One thing I'm sure of, is that tech co's like M$ and others have obsolescence built-in; they try to persuade you to upgrade; and if you don't, they f.up your system anyway...

 

[Raoul Duke]

I installed Vista the day it was released, thought it was pretty good once companies got off their behinds and wrote some good drivers etc, for it. I was running, for the time, a fairly powerful home pc so that might have helped.

 

[captaincranky]

I installed Vista the day it was released, thought it was pretty good once companies got off their behinds and wrote some good drivers etc, for it. I was running, for the time, a fairly powerful home pc so that might have helped.

I have a laptop with Vista Basic installed. As Toshiba was the one who had to deal with the drivers before they sold Vista machines, the drivers are a non-issue. It works fine. I've probably said this before, but likely the ones who had with the most trouble with Vista were early adopter/build it your-selfers.

Windows 7 isn't the big improvement over Vista with respect to load on hardware that many have convinced themselves it is either.

I'm using an Intel E-6300 Pentium dual on top of Intel G-41 IGP with Win 7 32 bit. Load up 50 tabs in Firefox, watch a few videos on YouTube, and it's time to kill FF with Task Manager, cause it's no longer answering the helm. (That's of course, assuming the system has enough juice left to open task manager). Otherwise it's time to hit the power button << O >>, then wade through the options in Win 7's "black screen of hope", on the reboot.

 

[Leeky]

Quite a few OSes... let's see. lol

Work: Server 2003 (I know! lol), 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, CentOS, RHEL, Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.
Home: Windows 7 (legacy laptop I use for diagnostics), Windows 10 (PC, laptop and Surface 3), openSUSE (Primary boot OS on PC), CentOS (File servers and multiple web servers).
Phones: iOS 9.2 and Android 5.1.1

Other projects not relating to work or home use expand that list further, but to make this simpler let's just say most Windows versions and quite a few more Linux distros. You can add Unix and BSD to that list as well. About the only major OS I no longer regularly use is OS X. Maybe that'll change when I finally decide on what to replace my tired old PC with - who knows. Would be nice if I could find the time to think about that first!

I must have the oldest PC for an IT enthusiast these days. It runs for weeks at a time and I honestly can't explain how more components haven't failed. Getting very long in the tooth now but the SSD drive makes it bearable. Going to be a sad day when it finally bites the dust. lol.

I originally had plans to replace my current computer with a workstation. These days I'm more drawn to my Surface 3 as between that and my Dell Venue work tablet I've got all my bases covered really. So I've been putting some semi-serious consideration into just getting a Surface 4 Pro or MBP 13", docking them when I'm in the home office and buying a Drobo (filled with 4,5, or 6 TB disks) for local file storage.