Weekend Open Forum: What operating system do you run?

[Shawn Knight]

Microsoft revealed earlier this month that Windows 10 is now installed on half a billion active devices around the world. Indeed, some variant of Microsoft’s Windows operating system is likely what you’ll find running on the average computer user’s PC.

With this week’s open forum, we’re curious – what version of Windows are you running? Or, given that this is a tech-focused community, it’s much more likely that you aren’t running Windows. Perhaps it's your favorite distribution of Linux or something else entirely?

Feel free to share in the comments section below.

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[VitalyT]

Windows 10 on the PC. In my brain though - not sure, too many bugs there, more like Chaos OS.

 

[Greg S]

Windows 10. Even my company is now running Windows 10 on all the R&D machines because it's required for some new software and all of the older software runs perfectly fine.

 

[texasrattler]

Windows 10 Pro for computer, Android for phone n tablet.

 

[TomSEA]

Windows 10 Pro. There's a lot not to like about it, but there's also a lot to like about it. With some tweaks you can make it so you don't want to throw your computer through a window.

 

[gcarter]

macOS 10.12 Sierra on the MacBooks
Windows 10 in boot camp
Windows 10 at work

 

[antiproduct]

Windows 10 Pro on my home desktop
Windows 7 Pro - laptop at home (10 was too slow, it's old)
Windows 7 Pro - my desktop at work
My work computers (about 1100 of them), a mix of 7 and 10 but mostly 7. I work at a school and I've found the time for a new user to login to a machine (Dell Latitude E7470, core i5, SSD) with Windows 10 takes about 2-3 minutes vs. about 30 seconds on 7. We use a program like deepfreeze that removes all user settings on shutdown, so all logins are essentially a new login. This problem is really going to push my deployments back to Win 7.

 

[EClyde]

7 98% of the time
10 the other 2%

 

[c7p89]

Windows 7 on my laptop
It's well past it's use by date. Undecided but thinking about getting the new surface pro
Windows 7 is still the best in my opinion

 

[Squid Surprise]

Windows 10 on my laptop and desktop... windows 7 at work - school board doesn't have the money to update.... 10 is vastly superior

 

[USAvenger]

MS-DOS 6.22

 

[Indigo5]

Windows 10 Pro on my home desktop/gaming PC.
Windows 10 Home on my personal laptop.
ChromeOS and Ubuntu on my Chromebook.
Ubuntu on my home server.
Windows 7 Pro on my desktop work PC.

 

[davislane1]

Win 10 Pro OEM.

 

[davislane1]

This didn't age well:

given that this is a tech-focused community, it’s much more likely that you aren’t running Windows

Would the one Debian user please stand up?

 

[TheSolarisGuru]

Linux Mint 18.2

 

[veLa]

Windows 10 Pro.

 

[DelJo63]

Laptop Win/7 Pro 64bit + Cygwin emulator for Linux web development
Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Redhat 6/7 & 98se triple boot

 

[hahahanoobs]

Windows 10 Pro x64

 

[GeforcerFX]

Win 10 on the mobile 2 in 1 moved my main laptop back to Win 7 Pro since the hardware performed better in the games I play but I keep win 10 pro on the HDD in that one for certain things. I also just started messing around with kubuntu and kde neon on another drive for my main laptop. Thinking of getting more into Linux over the next year or two.

 

[Cycloid Torus]

Win 10, Ubuntu, Chrome OS

 

[Kenrick]

Main PC: Windows 7 Ult
Home laptop: Windows 10 -> no possible downgrade to windows 7, For sale, mint, rarely used, please inquire.
Work PC: Windows 7 Pro
Work laptop: Windows 7 Pro

Windows 7 is still the king until it is EOL.

 

[mcborge]

Windows 10 64 on my gaming rig, my laptop and my NUC.

 

[vincentyu]

Main PC: Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
Hard drive in the dock of same PC: Debian Jessie 8.8 64bit

 

[Patrick Laramee]

Dual boot, Windows 10 for games and Ubuntu gnome 16.04 for work... I'm trying to get rid of my windows 10 most games I play got ported to linux or can work on wine. My only remaining issue is Battlefield and OverWatch...

 

[DDG4005]

I'm running Windows 10 Pro on my desktops.