Re: Other then Linux what Operating systems Have you/Do you

Unfortunately MS DOS 6, Windows 3.1.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.

Other than that my experiments with other operating systems has been limited, though I have seen ReactOS in use.

As for the Linux versions I have used (not entirely on topic but still relevant), the first one I saw running was Slackware 8, the first one I used was Red Hat Linux 6, followed by Red Hat Linux 8. I have used quite a few versions of Knoppix, but I was turned off when they started including Compiz desktop effects. As for my main system, Fedora, I have used Fedora 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and currently 13. I have also played around with the niche distribution SuperGamer, and have also played around a bit with CentOS 5.

Re: Other then Linux what Operating systems Have you/Do you

awesome thread i liked it.
So here's the list of systems that i used to use:
Windows 98
Windows XP
Windows 7
Fedora 13 (didn't like it because of its repo and silly bugs)
Kubuntu
Slackware

Os-es that i've played with:
OpenSolaris
Haiku
PC-BSD
Linux Mint
MS-DOS 6 and 7
Windows 95
ReactOS
Knoppix
Slax
CentOS

That's it :)

Re: Other then Linux what Operating systems Have you/Do you

Like everyone else my age I've used : DOS, Win 3.1, Win95, WinNT, Win98, Win2000, WinXP, Win2003 and a little bit of Vista and Win7.
As a Linux/Windows System Administrator I must use Windows sometimes, so I get my hands dirty with Win2003 most of the time. (and sometimes touch WinXP, Vista and 7 to help the users/losers).
But my "main" working machine is RHEL5.1 - which sucks as a desktop.
With this crappy distro I really have a hard time explaining the users why Linux is good.

At home I use Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit so I have no problems.

Re: Other then Linux what Operating systems Have you/Do you

Windows 95 through to 7, missed out Vista though.

Ubuntu since the first one.

Kubuntu once or twice...eww.

Mandrake 9 (before it was mandriva).

SuSE - a couple different versions.

MeeGo - Cool idea but doesn't work very well, Ubuntu Netbook Edition far better.

Amiga Workbench.

Re: Other then Linux what Operating systems Have you/Do you

I'm something of an OS nut, so I like to try just about everything I can get my hands on. I am trying to track down an old G4 Mac Mini to try out some of the PPC OSes that are still around.

Besides Linux Mint as my main OS, I am using AmigaOS 4.1 FE Update 2 on AmigaOne X5000 and AmigaOS 3.2 on A4000. Both machines have dedicated desk and while 3.2 is used to mess around with the OS, play games and play mods, 4.1 I use as a productivity machine for drawing and learning Hollywood. That's it, no windows machine in my household (even my kids use Linux).

Windows Vista and 7, Linux exclusively from then on, always Debian based.

As an former it guy
Dos win 3.1 win95 win98 winME winXP win7 win10 (didnt like it over other wins.)

As linux wise
Mandrake mandriva
Slackware
Ubuntu+ derivatives

That would be:
Windows 95 to 10 (dropped it soon after DXVK released)
Whatever Nokia phones ran on before Microsoft killed them
iOS on iPad provided at work in 2013, 2014
Whatever PlayStation 3 runs on (I'm playing it now, a friend gave it to me while he doesn't need it)

These days I only have a Windows system on a laptop provided at work.

From 2002 to 2004, I used Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.

I used few Linux distributions since 2004 like Mepis, Aurox, Fedora, and Debian - the last one I used as the only operating system on my PC from 2005 to 2010.

Currently, I use mostly Mac OS X on the old Mac Mini Server and still switch to Debian and Ubuntu if it is necessary. There is also an old PC with Windows 10, which I have used for a few years that helps me to prepare for specific exams.

In my spare time, I learn how to use HP-UX (Itanium) that I installed on the old server.

In the future, I plan to buy a computer with AIX.

The most interesting OS that I tried to run on the VM is A/UX (Apple Unix), and we still don't have a fully functional VM for it - it is so SAD!

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Personally I used at some point or other

Amiga OS (1.3 and 2.04)
DOS
Win95, Win98, Win2k, XP (also 8/8.1 inside a VM)
BeOS 5
OSX 10.2, 10.4, 10.6, 10.9 up to 10.14/15? (Kinda lost track with the yearly releases that didn't really feel any different from the last)
My first Linux install was a SuSE distro from late '96, but after 6.4 or 7.1 I switched to Debian and later Ubuntu, of which I ran all the LTS releases from 14.04 onward.

I've also installed FreeBSD and Haiku at some point, but never used them much for anything productive.

At work I also had NT4, Win7 and now some version of Win10, as well as exposure to AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and OpenVMS (those latter four I wrote code on, but didn't use as a desktop).

In a way I feel we're long past peak OS, no matter the vendor. Things got slower and ever more complex, with only marginal improvements to usability and features. Were it not for hardware support and bug fixes, I guess I'd still stick with something from the mid 2000s.

Quoting: Guestwin xp, vista, 7,8 and 10. i have never used BSD or Solaris.

An 11-year bump. Respect! :D

Didn't have 3.1 and suchlike, too early for me, but something along these lines:
Win 95, Win 98, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 7 (skipped ME and Vista, and of course 10).

Don't recall all the Linux distros I tried on and off, but at least these:
Red Hat, Knoppix, Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint. I've been on Linux Mint for many years now, and dual-booting was dropped many years ago too.

Special mention of Windows RG. Don't know if there is a "working" version any more, but it was hilarious. Almost burst my sides when first trying it out. Hmm, maybe this is the original? https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg

Quoting: levellord(even my kids use Linux).

How's that working out? Aren't they isolated from their friends? Doesn't school require MSO?

I've used MS systems from DOS up to and including Windows XP, macOS since 10.3, Linux since Mandrake 8. BeOS, too, for about 2 hours.

Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: levellord(even my kids use Linux).

How's that working out? Aren't they isolated from their friends? Doesn't school require MSO?

School is providing tablets for kids, android based, so it is pretty much uniform in that way and no isolation. On the other hand, there is always a bunch of kids playing games in my house on Linux when they are not outside. My oldest daughter doesn't even know that something called windows exists. :) Youngest doesn't care, too young. Linux has gone long way since Steam was introduced.

Quoting: levellord

Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: levellord(even my kids use Linux).

How's that working out? Aren't they isolated from their friends? Doesn't school require MSO?

School is providing tablets for kids, android based, so it is pretty much uniform in that way and no isolation. On the other hand, there is always a bunch of kids playing games in my house on Linux when they are not outside. My oldest daughter doesn't even know that something called windows exists. :) Youngest doesn't care, too young. Linux has gone long way since Steam was introduced.

That's great. Over here it would be very difficult to avoid running Windows.

I have an Lineage OS Raspberry Pi 4 as my backyard HTPC with Fdroid and Gapps installed for gaming Stadia and RetroArch. It also has SimpleMusicPlayer, Netflix, Youtube-adless, Kanopy and Plex for watching stuff and listening to music.

I also have Lineage OS on my Samsung A51 phone with just Fdroid now. I removed Gapps once Stadia worked flawlessly via Browser on it.

I use UBTouch on a Google Nexus 5 as a back up phone, book reader and emulator.

I use AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on a new NUC rig that I am setting up for my sun room.

I have used various operating systems in the course of work but on systems I have owned I started with Windows 98; then moved to Windows XP; then moved to Windows Vista; then moved to Windows 7; tried out Windows 10 briefly before making the switch to Linux.

On Linux I started with Linux Mint then moved to Solus and then moved to Manjaro. For gaming systems I keep Majaro but for my non gaming systems I use Trisquel. Going to eventually move to strictly FOSS gaming at some point if my unhappiness with the current gaming market keeps up in which case Trisquel would be on all of my systems.

I have dabbled with OpenBSD and GhostBSD on my systems but in the end couldn't find a reason to keep them. Not bad operating systems at all but they didn't give me anything that a Linux distro couldn't but more importantly Linux could give me features that BSD couldn't (mainly around gaming). Gotta say I am really looking forward to see what the Hyperbola team does with their fork of the OpenBSD kernel in the next couple years.

I really began on the Atari 800XL with the various DOS versions there. First GUI I ran was on the Atari ST with GEM. Then ran a bit with the Amiga 500. Then onto Windows 95. Sometime after that I had really disliked Windows and wanted something more themable, and ran into Enlightenment DR13 and played with various Linux distributions, and fell in love with Debian, which I still use today.

Mostly from there gone from using Windows and various BSDs, Linux, etc.

My current rigs are Triple boot, Arch Linux, Debian Sid and Windows 10. Then I have 3 Amigas (running Kickstart 3.1.4), several Atari STs, many Atari 8bits, a few 8bit commodores, an Apple IIGS, a G4 macbook (with MorphOS / old OSX), some other old macs, a bunch of play around with thinkpads, etc.

It's been argued that I shouldn't have an opinion (that was apparently wrong that Windows 7 wasn't perfect) because I've used so many different systems, and not just Windows...

Either way, I like operating systems, recently installed RiscOS on an Rpi400.

Over the years I've used every operating system I could lay hands on, starting with AppleSoft BASIC on the Apple ][+ and moving on through Commodore 64, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Sun Microsystems server blades, various flavors of DOS and Windows up to Win7 Pro (I've tried Win10 on friends' systems and can't stand it), OS/2 Warp, MacOS, and a whole host of various Linux and Unix flavors.

Nowadays, I just stick with Linux, because it gets the job done and stays outta my way. Rarely do I have to fight with Linux even a little bit to get work done, and gaming is generally equally smooth for me too, thanks to things like WINE, Lutris, Proton, etc, as well as the massive pool of great Linux native games.

Last edited by BlooAlien on 25 Jun 2021 at 11:18 am UTC