What is your main OS besides the Amiga OSes and why?

[Plaz]

Non Amiga home use is split between windows and centos linux.
Years ago I used slackware, but just don't have time to tinker these days.
For work I use about an equal amount of AIX, centos and windows.

Plaz

[Plaz]

i use suse because it's awesome.

We just retired our only two suse servers this year. (enterprise 10.3)
I give props to novell for being a good care taker over the years. Now it's all grown up.

Plaz

[Plaz]

I'm not sure who said that Vista is a horrible OS

Lumbering might be a better way I'd describe it. After a few weeks of slower performance than I could bear on a new laptop and desktop where it came pre-installed, I downgraded both to XPsp3 which supported all the same apps and ran much spunkier.

Fast-forward a few years with Window7 installed on the same machines, and 7 seemed to achieve nicely what Vista had attempted.

Plaz

[Plaz]

I've never had to do a restore on a Windows 7 or 8.1 machine

Here's an Amiga inspired fun-fact... The data on my current XPsp3 box began in 1994 as windows 3.1 on a 40meg harddrive (meg not gig). I have copied that data to bigger and bigger drives over the years, upgrading motherboards, upgrading windows, but never doing a clean install. 3.1>3.11>95>98SE>XP to the current XP3. My main workstation for years, the kids now use it as their main steam game box. Looks like I'm finally stopped at XP3 though as there isn't a code upgrade path to win 7. Maybe I'll see if I can go vista first to win 7.

As I upgraded hardware in my Amigas over the years it was never necessary to do clean installs to update the OS. I just copied the existing drive to a new bigger drives. My Amiga drives today started out as a copy of the 1.3 install on a 20meg HD from my A500 in 1989. I always took it as a challenge to make windows take the same route.

P.S. Amiga all at 3.9 now.

Plaz

[Plaz]

trying to be rational can cause mental problems.

Well said.  

Plaz