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

[Jim Capp]

Hi Folks, 


I cut my UNIX teeth on Xenix in the early 80's and have been using some flavor of *nix ever since. I'm a CLI guy and we run hundreds of Linux vm hosts and guests at work. I've steered clear of M$oft for nearly my entire career. 


I weaned my wife off of M$oft 20 years ago and just recently moved her from Linux to an iMac. 


When I'm at home, its MacOS. 


$.02 


Jim 







From: "Jeffry R. Abramson" <jeffryrabramson at gmail.com> 
To: tuhs at tuhs.org 
Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2024 1:47:26 AM 
Subject: [TUHS] What do you currently use for your primary OS at home? 

I've been using some variant of Linux (currently Debian 12) as my 
primary OS for daily activities (email, web, programming, photo 
editing, etc.) for the past twenty years or so. Prior to that it was 
FreeBSD for nearly ten years after short stints with Minix and Linux 
when they first came out. At the time (early/mid 90's), I was working 
for Bell Labs and had a ready supply of SCSI drives salvaged from 
retired equipment. I bought a Seagate ST-01A ISA SCSI controller for 
whatever 386/486 I owned at the time and installed Slackware floppy by 
floppy. 

When I upgraded to a Pentium PC for home, Micron P90 I think, I 
installed a PCI SCSI controller (Tekram DC-390 equipped with an 
NCR53c8xx chip) to make use of my stash of drives. Under Linux it was 
never entirely stable. I asked on Usenet and someone suggested trying 
the other SCSI driver. This was the ncr driver that had been ported 
from FreeBSD. My stability problems went away and I decided to take a 
closer look at FreeBSD. It reminded me of SunOS from the good old pre- 
System V era along with the version of Unix I had used in grad school 
in the late 70's/early 80's so I switched. 

I eventually reverted back to Linux because it was clear that the user 
community was getting much larger, I was using it professionally at 
work and there was just a larger range of applications available. 
Lately, I find myself getting tired of the bloat and how big and messy 
and complicated it has all gotten. Thinking of looking for something 
simpler and was just wondering what do other old timers use for their 
primary home computing needs? 

Jeff 


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