What operating system does your primary computer use?

[Pike]

By "primary computer", I mean whichever computer you use the most.

Myself, I dual-boot Win7 and Kubuntu Linux.

[Galuf]

i recently got a laptop on christmas and it is windows 8

[Shauna]

Windows 8.1, because my friend got me a legit key for free for my new PC and I thought I'd try out the new Windows OS and see how I like it.

It's fine.

[Psychotic]

Another Windows 8.1 user here!

[Scotty_ffgamer]

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[Levian]

Using Windows 8 with a touchscreen ^^ great combo

[Pike]

This thread makes me feel out-of-date for having Windows 7 installed!

[Iceglow]

I have Windows 7 running on my laptop. To be honest, I've no particular desire to upgrade to Windows 8. However, when I eventually build a desktop PC I guess I shall have to go up to at least 8 if not straight on to 10.

[Ayen]

Windows 7.

[Madame Adequate]

Windows 7.

[escobert]

I'm a Windows 8 users x3 Desktop, Laptop and Mobile.

[DMKA]

I recently built myself a new rig and upgraded to Windows 8.1. It runs well but I do miss the old programs layout.

[Yar]

Just bought myself a Mac

[Denmark]

i'm getting a brand new laptop this week (maybe, provided it doesn't get stuck in alaska for a week) that will have windows 7 and the computer i've had for the past 4 years has windows 7

and my work computer has windows 7, if that counts (it doesn't)

[Pumpkin]

Windows 7

[Mirage]

Windows 7 on my main battlestation.

8.1 on my Surface Pro 2.

[Sephex]

Windows 7. It makes my balls tingle.

[Night Fury]

Windows 8.1 or something.

[Egami]

OS X (Mavericks).

[blackmage_nuke]

Dual Boot win7 and ubuntu

[Spuuky]

Need Windows for too many games, and I don't see the point in dual-booting.

Also I can bend Windows 7 to my will at this point, so I am going to put off upgrading until my job requires me to know a different OS better than I know Windows 7.

[Jessweeee♪]

My desktop pc has Windows 7, my laptop has Linux Mint because I needed a free OS, I barely know what I'm doing with it.

[Pike]

and I don't see the point in dual-booting.

This is very understandable; I consider myself a special case because I've been using Linux for ten years so I can do a lot with it and I enjoy using it (this all sounds really nerdy) so sometimes I'll miss it and switch over for months at a time.

That's all me being a turbonerd, though.

[Sephex]

and I don't see the point in dual-booting.

This is very understandable; I consider myself a special case because I've been using Linux for ten years so I can do a lot with it and I enjoy using it (this all sounds really nerdy) so sometimes I'll miss it and switch over for months at a time.

That's all me being a turbonerd, though.

I would say that you have a preference for your own property like most normal people do!

[Madame Adequate]

I've toyed with the idea of dual-booting and learning to be pro and use Linux, but honestly I'm just not sure what Linux would do that Windows doesn't already do. Windows is very far from a perfect OS, sure, but it does everything I want it to reliably and quickly enough for me (Okay that might be the SSD more than the OS :p) so I'm too lazy to really bother.

[Shoeberto]

Windows for my HTPC, Ubuntu for my work and personal laptops. Windows is on both of the laptops though I don't have much of a reason to boot into them.

It's a hard thing to recommend to most people unless you really have the motivation to stick with it and figure out the nuances. It's hard for me to go back to Windows for anything other than games, though. As a developer there's just no analogues for Windows that come close to matching the workflows that Linux gives you. (And I have no desire to pay Apple tax ever)

[Goldenboko]

Desktop is Windows 7, laptop is Mac (I like the battery life for going to campus and such).

[CimminyCricket]

I have two on my main computer but one runs on a VM, so I'm technically not dual booting. I use Win 8.1 Pro and Win 7 Pro on my desktop. My laptop is still running its native Win 7 Home Premium. I have a couple of VMs running different Linux distros, but I don't use them very often. Out of all of the OSs I use 8.1 is by far my favorite. I don't know if I'll bother upgrading to Win 10 to be honest (side note: it'll be a free upgrade for those with 7 and 8-8.1 for the first year of its release [this is for you Pike]).