I've used "Windows 98SE" a bit, then "Windows XP" extensively. And from then on only GNU/Linux and nothing more, as far as my home machines are concerned.

At work I use GNU/Linux with "Windows 7" in kemu at my workplace and… whatever is installed on other machines.

P.S. Did not see DOS at conscious age.

Quoting: Alm888I've used "Windows 98SE" a bit, then "Windows XP" extensively. And from then on only GNU/Linux and nothing more, as far as my home machines are concerned.

At work I use GNU/Linux with "Windows 7" in kemu at my workplace and… whatever is installed on other machines.

P.S. Did not see DOS at conscious age.

I kind of lucked out and didn't have to deal with DOS until Windows 95, which made it much easier. I have more recently bought an Atari PC3, which is a 286. And then you learn how many things require a 386 or greater... also, dealing with extended memory is garbage. Nothing like adding more memory to the Atari ST or Amiga. Or even the 8bit computers.

I started on 8-bit systems, mainly AMSDOS/Locomotive BASIC 1.0 and Locomotive BASIC 1.1, and occasional dalliances with CP/M 2.2 and CP/M Plus (v3.1) on the old Amstrad CPC range. With the odd BBC, and Spectrum thrown in for good measure.

Eventually I moved over to PC, and like a few on here, I can say that I have used the following in anger:

• various flavours/versions of DOS


• Win 3 thru 3.11


• Win 95


• Win 98/98SE


• Win XP

Also having some exposure to Win 2 (don't ask), a PC version of GEM, Win 7 and Win 10, a few versions of OSX/MacOS, and various Unixes.

I probably used RiscOS at some point as well, there was a lab of Archimedes A3000's at high school, before an incoming head of the Computing department blew his entire years' budget in the space of a week replacing all of them and a number of the school's ageing BBC's with PCs.

I run Fedora Linux on my laptop and my desktop. All the rest is retro stuff. Two C64 running basic, one Amiga 500 with one meg of ram running AmigaOS 1.3, a desktop running windows xp and an IBM Aptiva running Windows 98SE.

Thanks to the wonderful thing that is virtualisation, Vulp has tried several OSes

• MSDOS 6 (with VM)


• Windows 3.1 (with VM)


• Windows 95 (both real boot and VM)


• Windows 98 (including SE) (both real boot and VM)


• Windows ME (with VM)


• Windows 2000 (both real boot and VM)


• Windows XP (both real boot and VM)


• Windows 7 (both real boot on public computers and VM)


• Windows 8 (including 8.1) (real boot)


• Windows 10 (both real boot on public computers and VM)

macOS 10.10 (with VM, hackintosh distro for experimental purpose)

• FreeBSD (with VM)


• PC-BSD (with VM)


• NetBSD (with VM)


• OpenBSD (with VM)


• OpenIndiana (with VM)


• Minix (with VM)

Last edited by Vulphere on 19 Nov 2021 at 4:02 pm UTC