Tech Discussion Thread: Long live the Calculator Master Race

[Luveria]

The best one.

Windows 8.

[Kamchastkia]

Windows 7, but secret lover of Linux distros

[Ryzlia]

Pear Linux 8, Rosa Linux, and Manjaro Cinammon. (Triple boot computer)

Windows-free for 5 months, and loving it!

[Shnercropolis]

Windows 8.

By the way, Ubuntu. For your poll. Put it there.

Debian is already on there.

[The Emerald Legion]

Windows 95.

My computer is top of the line, designed for this advanced operating system. With 2 whole KB of ram. And a floppy disk drive.

(More seriously speaking, I do have a computer with a floppy disk drive and windows 95. But I use a windows 7 MSI a6200. That has metal plates bolted to the back to keep the hinges from smashing through the plastic shell again.)

[Kamchastkia]

I'm still on 7.

So you're making your opinion of 8 without having spent time with it?

Windows 8 sucked when I used it for 3 months approx. NEVER. GOING. BACK.

[Pandeeria]

So you're making your opinion of 8 without having spent time with it?

Windows 8 sucked when I used it for 3 months approx. NEVER. GOING. BACK.

Hey! Windows 8 was pretty decent.

[Luveria]

Windows 8 sucked when I used it for 3 months approx. NEVER. GOING. BACK.

Hey! Windows 8 was pretty decent.

Windows 8 is wonderful with Classic Shell, which adds back the taskbar and start menu.

[Kamchastkia]

Windows 8 sucked when I used it for 3 months approx. NEVER. GOING. BACK.

Hey! Windows 8 was pretty decent.

Metro is the worst thing ever to come to Desktop Computing.

[Regnum Dominae]

Hey! Windows 8 was pretty decent.

Metro is the worst thing ever to come to Desktop Computing.

But with 8.1 you can boot straight to desktop.

[Shnercropolis]

Who uses that totally rad OS in the poll? Speak now or forever hold your totally rad OS.

[Blazedtown]

Windows because I'm not a hipster with daddy's money to spend on an overpriced status symbol.

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

The real question is what OS haven't I used?

What about ChromeOS?

Well I haven't used that one but I hear Tiny Core Linux is similar which I have used.

[Pandeeria]

Hey! Windows 8 was pretty decent.

Metro is the worst thing ever to come to Desktop Computing.

I'll admit it works better for phones and tablets, but it's not that bad. 8 is a solid and stable OS.

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

Anyone used FreeBSD?

[Breadknife]

The machines that are currently switched on number 2 3 WinXPs, 1 Win2K, 1xFedora (needs updating), and an Android tablet (not sure what version, without ).

I've got other versions of Windows available (or alternately-bootable-into), including a Win98 machine¹, as well a couple more frequently used Linux distros (a far older Fedora and a Puppy-onna-USB) and (if it counts) an Arduino.

I really ought to see if a Raspberry Pi can power as many servos as the Arduino does, one day, but right now I'm Pi-less. I also apologise for the lack of Mac/IOS (just I've really never been a big Mac person since the era of the Apple][, with some casual use of the Mac Classic when that was around). I don't apologise that Win8.05±0.05 isn't part of my ensemble, but that's already an argument I see has happened.


¹ And it would be a matter or moments to boot it up, but I really need to replace the CMOS battery at some point. An amazingly simple job that I just haven't got around to yet. I can even see a number of screwdrivers.

[Shnercropolis]

What about ChromeOS?

Well I haven't used that one but I hear Tiny Core Linux is similar which I have used.

D: how could you even get anything done with TCL?

Anyway chromeOS is mostly web-based and boots from an unchangeable built-in flash memory. Pretty much my definition of a bad OS.

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

Well I haven't used that one but I hear Tiny Core Linux is similar which I have used.

D: how could you even get anything done with TCL?

Anyway chromeOS is mostly web-based and boots from an unchangeable built-in flash memory. Pretty much my definition of a bad OS.

I loved tiny core! It was one of my favorites once you got it running. It was so small and only had what YOU wanted.

[Shnercropolis]

D: how could you even get anything done with TCL?

Anyway chromeOS is mostly web-based and boots from an unchangeable built-in flash memory. Pretty much my definition of a bad OS.

I loved tiny core! It was one of my favorites once you got it running. It was so small and only had what YOU wanted.

Sounds familiar...

[Aeken]

One which is best suited for GPS, which I'm guessing is Android.

Nokia Windows Phones come with an excellent GPS, coupled with a really great free GPS app called Nokia Drive, which uses Navteq maps and is extremely accurate.

HERE Maps could be useful as well.

[Ainin]

Nokia Windows Phones come with an excellent GPS, coupled with a really great free GPS app called Nokia Drive, which uses Navteq maps and is extremely accurate.

HERE Maps could be useful as well.

Actually, I'm pretty sure HERE Maps and Nokia Drive (or is it HERE Drive now?) use the same mapping technology.

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

I loved tiny core! It was one of my favorites once you got it running. It was so small and only had what YOU wanted.

Sounds familiar...

I tried Arch. I'll admit I couldn't figure it out. I tried and tried but it never detected my wireless card. I liked Tiny Core because it did.

[Shnercropolis]

Sounds familiar...

I tried Arch. I'll admit I couldn't figure it out. I tried and tried but it never detected my wireless card. I liked Tiny Core because it did.

I cannot tell you how many hours and hours it took to make my wireless card work with mint. I had to fix a compiler error in the driver!

[Thurask]

Windows 8.1, but only because my laptop came with W8.

I do have a soft spot in my heart for Crunchbang, though.

[Pandeeria]

Anyone used FreeBSD?

Strange. The name sounds vaguely familiar. I don't believe I have though.