[TUHS] What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?

[Wesley Parish]

I've used Microsoft products on many an occasion; I have to say, they 
did lift their game as time went on. I have used Windows 3.x, but 
generally the times I installed it on my 486 generally led to me erasing 
it for something less fragile. My current main box is Fedora, and before 
that it was Kubuntu, and before that it was Win 8.1 and before that Win 
76.x - economics; those were the only machines I could then afford when 
my PCLinuxOS box died. I've played around with OpenSolaris, which was an 
eye-opener for someone who'd used Linux almost exclusively since I'd got 
my hands on Slackware 3.x on CDROM, before transitioning to Mandrake 
9.0, and thence to PCLinuxOS.

Though, Linux is still more robust than Windows - I've got a PC running 
MS Win10, which has shown me a blank white screen the last time I booted 
it, while the time Fedora had a display driver issue, I was able to 
update the system the following day and solved that issue in the process.

Wesley Parish

On 9/03/24 05:09, John Cowan wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 2:42 PM Douglas McIlroy 
> <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
>
>     Because I sometimes use ArcMap, I run Windows.
>
> I run Windows because it's easy to get third-party maintenance for 
> Windows or Mac, and Windows is easier to tune.
>
>     Cygwin plus the sam editor make me feel at home.
>
>
> Ditto, except I don't like TUI editors, so I use `ex` and drop into 
> `vi' mode when I need to bounce on the % key when doing Lisp.  The 
> benefits of `sam -d` over `ex` aren't big enough to justify changing 
> years of habit.
>
>     The main signs of Microsoft are the desktop, Bing, File Explorer
>     and Task Manager.
>
>
> I use both Edge/Bing and Chrome/Google depending on what's integrated 
> with them.
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