Operating systems

Well, for me it wasn't a huge curve, but I have suing Windows 8 since the developers preview. It was a shock to install a new OS and be presented with a lock screen and no idea what to do. Now my PC in on the Technical Preview of Windows 10 (build 10041) and so far I'm liking it. It definitely has some things that need to be worked out, but I think most people that install Windows 10 on release will like it.

 

Personal:
Windows XP Home Edition, on a around 11 year old Dell 2400 desktop and still working pretty good for as old as it is. Though I have only had it for about a year and a half. - I was using it for games but now it's gonna be mainly used for browsing the web and other minor uses.

Windows 7 Home premium I think, on a eMachines laptop that is at the end of it's life. - Mainly used for Skype, music and some programs.

Windows 95, on a Toshiba Satellite have not really used it to much, as the person I bought it from had the administrator account password protected so I can not do much on it.

School: Ones I have assigned to me at school.
Windows 7 on a Think Pad, used for school stuff.

Chrome OS, or whatever it is called, on a Dell Chromebook. Used for school stuff.

 

Windows 7 on the desktop, but pretty much do everything on my phone. Speaking of which, when using the mega app on android, where in the hell does it save downloaded files? Chomping at the bit to watch me some anime, but can't find the damned downloaded files...

 

This is what most of my friends have done after there pc was forcefully upgraded

 

I've installed it on all of the PCs at work so that the old people don't get confused. =P

 

I prefer Startisback. Granted it isn't free. Classic shell is probably the better of the alternatives

 

Most Windows 7 OEM machines will be Home Premium by default. In fact, I've never seen a Home Basic on any OEM machine for as long as Windows 7 have been commercially available (of course, I never seriously tried to track one down as I didn't want home basic). I'm hoping that the Windows 10 release will have 3 variations at most. Home, Professional, and Mobile. Having so many variations is annoying as hell (Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate, etc). Servers, however, I like the idea they have a specific function for their variations, such as Web Server, Data Center, etc so that businesses can pick a variation that actually fits their needs and easily configured when installed. Desktops/laptops do not need so many choices. Some gamers will probably go with Professional if they want all the bells and whistles (including Encryption), otherwise most everyone typically sticks with a Home edition since it's cheaper. Anyways, probably starting to go off topic.

I occasionally pop in a Live CD of Knoppix, Puppy Dog Linux, or Ophcrack.
Ophcrack I mainly use to recover a Windows password, which is quite handy if you've forgot the password and you want to regain access to your computer. Ubuntu sucks with their strict GUI and lack of GUI customization, so I've started checking out it's KDE version, Kubuntu, and the LXDE version, Lubuntu. I'm liking Lubuntu and I think both Kubuntu and Lubuntu are way better than Ubuntu so far.

 

Laptop dual boot:

1. Main usage is the flavor of arch known as BBQLinux. Phenomenal for Android dev as everything is already set up in an already installed format (aka, less work for me to have to install more onto the Arch system when migrating my applications over).
2. Secondary, which is used mostly to stream online with is Linux Mint. Simple flavor of Ubuntu which seems to take up the least amount of space out of the majority of other tests (while still allowing PPAs for the easy to use Ubuntu settings).

 

A Linux user, very nice. I've used several distros, and I'd have Linux on my computer if not for Windows being required for a lot of my school applications.

 

@Kiri See, even with my studies towards obtaining my BS in Software (to accompany my knowledge and application) they claim everything has to be done through windows. The big upside of Linux is I have yet to find much with coding that Windows does and Linux can't.

The only one I'm still waiting on (instead of having to run OS X though a virtual console for coding) is objective C for iOS based applications.

 

Once out of school, I could easily do my job on a Linux machine, but Cisco's Packet Tracer application is for Windows only, and WINE didn't help last I tried. I have VMware to boot info my CentOS web server, (or my many other VMs) and that helps with all my Linux needs for now.

Also, don't expect Apple to let developers make stuff outside their OS ecosystem. Maybe someday a third-party will. It's one of the few reasons I'm not a fangirl of Apple's stuff.

 

There is already a work in progress. Almost like Wine. The basis is there, but not much functionality yet. As for what you're doing (the Networking side) I can see how you're confined to Microsoft in the learning process. With the Associates I went after before, that's where I felt stuck when we studied IS within the ECT program I was in.

 

Yeah my training was mostly in Microsoft [Server, Client, Office, Exchange Enterprise] with a very little dip into Fedora Linux

 

Project Spartan looks almost exactly like Internet Explorer that came pre-installed. They're not really doing anything to create a new browser, like they implied when they announced Project Spartan. All they did was make a tablet friendly version of Internet Explorer and slapped a codename to it to make it sound new. It's definitely not going to make me switch from Chromium-based browsers, that's for sure.

 

I dont think IE can do the web clipping stuff like this, plus its running a different rendering engine than IE

 

well for now i got 1 system (non portable)
but gotta admit i kinna like tis........... its windows 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but i seriously gotta get a new laptop for myself in ma first salary!!!!

 

I'm still skeptical on Project Spartan. Today, the developer tool in Spartan for some reason decided to raise my entire memory usage up to 98% on it's initial loading for a small webpage that uses a jQuery news ticker script. The tool made the entire browser slow, unresponsive and difficult to force close to free up memory. Had I not been able to finally get Task Manager open, it probably would have crashed the computer. The page loaded quite well in all browsers (including Spartan), but Project Spartan's developer tool was extremely memory intensive on it's first run. I don't know what Microsoft is doing, but that's completely insane. Also, it's the same exact developer tool Internet Explorer 11 uses. I still think it's a tablet friendly version of Internet Explorer and after what that developer tool did, I'm not fully convinced that Microsoft actually built Project Spartan from scratch like they implied.

As for Windows 10, there seems to be a bug with the scheduled restart notifications with build 10074. Other than being pestered by notifications of a scheduled restart that never even happens, Windows 10 is still pretty solid. I still wish Microsoft would make Internet Explorer removable instead of forcing people to let Internet Explorer take up disk space.