Tech Discussion Thread: Long live the Calculator Master Race

[Chinese Regions]

Windows 7

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

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!

I feel your pain! Unfortunately, the drivers for my weird hardware would have problems like that over and over again. After 6 months I just settled with XP which I used Nlite to cut unneded features off the install disk.

[Marquesan]

Windows 8.1 on the laptop, Windows Phone 8 Amber on my Lumia.

Awwww yea.

[Mandicoria]

Windows 7, used to also use 8 but I ditched it.

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

Anyone used FreeBSD?

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

It's a Berkely Software Distribution or BSD. It was one of the first open source decendants of Unix and the original 386BSD contained actual UNIX code. It is really simple and straightforward compared to linux. It actually makes sense at the inner workings level! Unoftunately, support for it is even worse than linux forcing me to only use it in niche areas.

[The United Colonies of Earth]

Windows 8 Phone and Windows XP for the school computers.

[Shnercropolis]

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

It's a Berkely Software Distribution or BSD. It was one of the first open source decendants of Unix and the original 386BSD contained actual UNIX code. It is really simple and straightforward compared to linux. It actually makes sense at the inner workings level! Unoftunately, support for it is even worse than linux forcing me to only use it in niche areas.

An OS that makes sense on the inside? Ludicrous.

[Ainin]

Windows 8.1 on the laptop, Windows Phone 8 Amber on my Lumia.

Awwww yea.

*high five*

[Pandeeria]

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

It's a Berkely Software Distribution or BSD. It was one of the first open source decendants of Unix and the original 386BSD contained actual UNIX code. It is really simple and straightforward compared to linux. It actually makes sense at the inner workings level! Unoftunately, support for it is even worse than linux forcing me to only use it in niche areas.

Hmmmm. I actually really liked Unix. The sounds really familiar, but I don't think I've used it.

[Lemanrussland]

Windows 7, OpenBSD 5.4, and Debian 7 mostly.

[Lemanrussland]

Anyone used FreeBSD?

Yes, though not a whole lot. I think a lot of the more advanced features (jails, mandatory access controls, access control lists, clustering and so on) are really interesting, though I haven't really tried using any of them.

[Ieperithem]

Windows 7 here, but it's nice to see that mac has been beaten out by essentially every major option.

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

It's a Berkely Software Distribution or BSD. It was one of the first open source decendants of Unix and the original 386BSD contained actual UNIX code. It is really simple and straightforward compared to linux. It actually makes sense at the inner workings level! Unoftunately, support for it is even worse than linux forcing me to only use it in niche areas.

An OS that makes sense on the inside? Ludicrous.

LOL! That was the reason I loved FreeBSD. I could actually compile my own kernel my own way and somewhat understand how it worked in a month. It was really beautifully simple.

[Metox]

An OS that makes sense on the inside? Ludicrous.

LOL! That was the reason I loved FreeBSD. I could actually compile my own kernel my own way and somewhat understand how it worked in a month. It was really beautifully simple.

Are the jokes about it being mind-bogglingly difficult to install substantiated at all?

[Lemanrussland]

LOL! That was the reason I loved FreeBSD. I could actually compile my own kernel my own way and somewhat understand how it worked in a month. It was really beautifully simple.

Are the jokes about it being mind-bogglingly difficult to install substantiated at all?

It's not that bad if you're a more technical user. I really wouldn't recommend it for desktops or anything like that. (if you want BSD on the desktop, try PC-BSD)

I forgot to mention, I've been meaning to put pfSense on my router, does anyone here use it at home?

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

LOL! That was the reason I loved FreeBSD. I could actually compile my own kernel my own way and somewhat understand how it worked in a month. It was really beautifully simple.

Are the jokes about it being mind-bogglingly difficult to install substantiated at all?

If I remember correctly, there was a somewhat graphical installer (command line graphics) that I found made it very quick and easy to install on your hardrive. After that it got real hard real quick if you didn't choose the version with a GUI already with the install disk (4 GB for no apparent reason). You were left with a commandline and had to compile everything from the base up. However It's not to bad if you don't need cutting edge features and have somewhat established (1 year old) hardware. The BSD Ports system is simply brilliant if you can use it right and makes compiling stuuf as easy as any linux package manager does downloading. I think you could get a BSD up and running within two weeks with all the features if you try hard enough. My favorite part was the wicked low ram usage. 5 MB used when you only have the command shell running.

Note: The last time I used it was Christmas of 2012.

[Lemanrussland]

Are the jokes about it being mind-bogglingly difficult to install substantiated at all?

If I remember correctly, there was a somewhat graphical installer (command line graphics) that I found made it very quick and easy to install on your hardrive. After that it got real hard real quick if you didn't choose the version with a GUI already with the install disk (4 GB for no apparent reason). You were left with a commandline and had to compile everything from the base up. However It's not to bad if you don't need cutting edge features and have somewhat established (1 year old) hardware. The BSD Ports system is simply brilliant if you can use it right and makes compiling stuuf as easy as any linux package manager does downloading. I think you could get a BSD up and running within two weeks with all the features if you try hard enough. My favorite part was the wicked low ram usage. 5 MB used when you only have the command shell running.

Note: The last time I used it was Christmas of 2012.

I don't think you necessarily need to use ports/compile everything, they do distribute binary packages.

If I remember correctly, there are also some installer isos with more stuff on them (smaller than the huge 4.4GB one, but not as small as the boot-only iso)

[Entas Sol Soverign Empire]

If I remember correctly, there was a somewhat graphical installer (command line graphics) that I found made it very quick and easy to install on your hardrive. After that it got real hard real quick if you didn't choose the version with a GUI already with the install disk (4 GB for no apparent reason). You were left with a commandline and had to compile everything from the base up. However It's not to bad if you don't need cutting edge features and have somewhat established (1 year old) hardware. The BSD Ports system is simply brilliant if you can use it right and makes compiling stuuf as easy as any linux package manager does downloading. I think you could get a BSD up and running within two weeks with all the features if you try hard enough. My favorite part was the wicked low ram usage. 5 MB used when you only have the command shell running.

Note: The last time I used it was Christmas of 2012.

I don't think you necessarily need to use ports/compile everything, they do distribute binary packages.

If I remember correctly, there are also some installer isos with more stuff on them (smaller than the huge 4.4GB one, but not as small as the boot-only iso)

I forgot! There we're binaries. I don't really remember why I didn't use them though. It could of been that ports were just way too fun.

[Astracarn]

Windows 8.

[Thurask]

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

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

And since I use my phone enough to count, BlackBerry 10 on top of that.

[Aeken]

It's called OSX. But I use Windows 8.1.

[Masophia]

Windows 8 on the desktop, and Windows 7 on my laptop.

[Shnercropolis]

It's called OSX. But I use Windows 8.1.

No, it's called Mac OS. It's just that for some reason, Apple stopped making new versions and started updating Mac OS 10.

[Aeken]

It's called OSX. But I use Windows 8.1.

No, it's called Mac OS. It's just that for some reason, Apple stopped making new versions and started updating Mac OS 10.

I guess if you're referring to all of them.

[Soviet Russia Republic]

Windows 7