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

[amiman99]

I'm using 32bit Windows Vista on Quad Core PC with 3GB RAM.
I'm not sure who said that Vista is a horrible OS, but for me it works fine. The PC is ON for 24/7 365 days, no OS crashes (mostly Firefox, that memory hogger and flash)
I also have MAC OSX 10.5.8 on kids MAC MINI, I let kids use OSX because it's harder to mess things up then on Windows PC.

[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

[Darrin]

Windows.  I use it for work, so having it at home is a must.  Plus it is great for gaming.

Also, I've never had to do a restore on a Windows 7 or 8.1 machine (with Classic Shell).  Even XP was a painless experience.  It does everything I need it to and it is familiar and very easy to use.

[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

[redfox]

At work, the entire company recently converted from Windows XP Professional to Windows 7.  Sadly, many of the applications I use every day actually run slower on Windows 7.

At home, AmigaOS4, iPad and Samsung GALAXY Tab4

iPad and Samsung Tab4 for convenience.  Can be used anywhere at home.

Also have some Windows computers which my wife and son use but I rarely use anymore.

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redfox

[Darrin]

Vista was a real pain when it first came out.  It was bloated, buggy and slow.

My son's machine came with Vista and I ended up putting XP on it.  After he managed to mangle his files up to a point where I wasn't going to waste time working out what he had done, I used the restore disks to format the hard drive and put Vista back on it.  Then I download all of the updates that had come out over the years and discovered that the performance was more or less what I got with Windows 7 (although 7 was still more friendly with older software).

[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

[toRus]

Luckily, I don't have to use Windows at work nowadays and I no longer give a toss about helping others with their Windows problems either, so it's less VMs for me to maintain on my Mac OSX and Linux systems.

[stefcep2]

Vista Business on main workhorse PC, Win 7 on laptop.  I've only known Vista since SP1 and other than the hard drive usage being higher, Vista perfoms more or less like Win 7.

[Furvert]

I still use an A1200 with 3.9. It's down for now till I can get the hard drive replaced.
I still consider it and MorphOS my main OS though.
I will even be adding MorphOS to the Dual G5 Power Mac my brother gave me, as a dualboot system when I can afford it. Apple seems just close enough to Amiga to be confusing
(My brother is still kicking himself for giving me this when swithing to an Intel Power Mac. > )
To my shame, I have a Monster of a Winblows 7 Pro system. It plays games and does some of my net browsing, but I won't trust it for e-mail or many other things for that matter.

[som99]

Oh I have many machines for different uses so got most of em, all from NG Morphos, AmigaOS4.x and classic Amiga OS/Workbench to ReactOS to Slackware to Opensolaris to all Windows versions from 3.1 up to 8 (have machines with era correct hardware for retro gaming since I like playing on real compatible hardware instead of vmware but use vmware also to check if my rips/copy protection cracking is working when I do copies of my Floppies/CD's to store em and upload them to a retro torrent community where I seed many TB a month), newer Windows OS'es are used for modern games and aplications that won't run under Linux.

On top of all that I got a big server that I am using for virtualization (EXSi), all from my webserver to ZFS backup.

And of cource I am running a machine with FreeBSD and pfSense connected to a 24 port HP gagbit switch to take care of my home network. Since my main server has a lot of capacity left I'm thinking of moving pfSense over there, tho the disadvantage of that is that the network will be vurnable for the exploits found in the virtualization software until patched, but no real big deal.

So got a wide spectrum and everything has it's use

Of all common OS'es I do not have OSX, got a PPC Mac Mini bud had no real use of OSX so din't install dual OS'es so only got MorphOS on it.

Have a good amounts of experimental OS'es also like ReactOS, mainly because it's fun

I got a Machine with Windows XP and Windows 98 also just because of eprom burners/programmers and other old/legacy hardware that won't work on new 64-bit OS'es.

Also have a huge Torrent machine used to seed tons of torrents (huge sets for all retro systems). Because of the I/O bugs in uTorrent I need to run multiple clients to be able to seed the Huge amount of torrents I have, as soon as I have a few TB of data in a single client the entire client starts to queue up until it stops all activity so need multiple clients, thinking of giving the uTorrent Server version for x64 Debian a go when I feel I have the time to move 20TB+ data and recheck on a new system...

As usual way to much text when I start typing haha...

[Fats]

I'm using CentOS. I refer to it as just Linux though, I consider GNU just a part of the whole Linux distro but also x.org etc. I'm a happy Linux user with being a follower of the FSF Church.

[Leffmann]

I use Mac OS X, and Windows to play a couple of games. Windows is really good for playing games.

[Karlos]

Linux for everyday stuff / work.

Windows for playing a few games. Although, since Steam arrived on Linux...

[Heiroglyph]

Windows 7, because I use it for work every day, I've got all the development tools I could ever need, everything just works and is easily available.

People give Windows a lot of crap, but I haven't had a serious issue with it since about Windows 2000. It's pretty solid, if not sexy.

I've got at least one machine with pretty much any given OS, AOS3, Haiku, NetBSD, Linux, MorphOS, OSX, Amithlon (I call it an OS), you name it. Only cost is preventing an OS4 machine (hint, hint)

I like to keep my options open and love just trying new OSs.