<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hi Folks,<div><br></div><div>I cut my UNIX teeth on Xenix in the early 80's and have been using some flavor of *nix ever since. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm a CLI guy and we run hundreds of Linux vm hosts and guests at work. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I've steered clear of M$oft for nearly my entire career.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I weaned my wife off of M$oft 20 years ago and just recently moved her from Linux to an iMac.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When I'm at home, its MacOS.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">$.02</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jim</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Jeffry R. Abramson" <jeffryrabramson@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>tuhs@tuhs.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, March 7, 2024 1:47:26 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[TUHS] What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?<br><br>I've been using some variant of Linux (currently Debian 12) as my<br>primary OS for daily activities (email, web, programming, photo<br>editing, etc.) for the past twenty years or so. Prior to that it was<br>FreeBSD for nearly ten years after short stints with Minix and Linux<br>when they first came out. At the time (early/mid 90's), I was working<br>for Bell Labs and had a ready supply of SCSI drives salvaged from<br>retired equipment. I bought a Seagate ST-01A ISA SCSI controller for<br>whatever 386/486 I owned at the time and installed Slackware floppy by<br>floppy.<br><br>When I upgraded to a Pentium PC for home, Micron P90 I think, I<br>installed a PCI SCSI controller (Tekram DC-390 equipped with an<br>NCR53c8xx chip) to make use of my stash of drives. Under Linux it was<br>never entirely stable. I asked on Usenet and someone suggested trying<br>the other SCSI driver. This was the ncr driver that had been ported<br>from FreeBSD. My stability problems went away and I decided to take a<br>closer look at FreeBSD. It reminded me of SunOS from the good old pre-<br>System V era along with the version of Unix I had used in grad school<br>in the late 70's/early 80's so I switched.<br><br>I eventually reverted back to Linux because it was clear that the user<br>community was getting much larger, I was using it professionally at<br>work and there was just a larger range of applications available. <br>Lately, I find myself getting tired of the bloat and how big and messy<br>and complicated it has all gotten. Thinking of looking for something<br>simpler and was just wondering what do other old timers use for their<br>primary home computing needs?<br><br>Jeff<br><br><br></div></div></body></html>