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Yep I agree
Started out on DEC VMS and when they went toes up switched to Windows.
But I have broke down and got serious about Linux and am determined to learn it well enough to program.
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All of my professional work, for the last twenty-odd years, has been in the MS stack. Over the course of those years there have been plenty of death marches, or overtime working, from home. So, I'm forced to us MS... in a VBox VM running on linux. Granted, I'm using Ubuntu (and I've upgraded every six months to the latest flavor), but I started way back when RedHat was still a hobby, before it went all enterprise-ey. Eventually, I switched to Ubuntu because I had neither the time, nor the mental capacity, to keep track of all the configuration files and settings of RedHat.
I must admit, however, that Visual Studio Code, and .NET CORE, look awfully interesting from a linux perspective.
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At work, we do Windows; our software runs on Windows (mostly because ,and 3rd party hardware support)
We do not expect to support any other OS in the near future (2, 3 years at least).
At home I use Windows (game PC) and Mac OS for everyday stuff (web, lightroom, itunes, traktor).
I'd rather be phishing!
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That's fair. Out of curiosity what do you do at work that requires Windows for 3rd party hardware support?
My first guess is user-facing applications for kiosks etc, but I might be completely missing the mark.
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I chip in: in my case it's for image acquisition boards, custom made boards for our enterprise, x-ray detectors and generators and similar stuff.
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Work laptop is win10.
Home is win7 and OpenVMS.
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I had to look up OpenVMS to find out what it was - looks really interesting! I'll have to try it out in a VM sometime
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: OpenVMS
Awesome sauce! Details please!
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That is awesome!
Spent a good part of my career in OpenVMS and may still have some opportunities to do so.
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My education and career up until 2002 was OpenVMS. I see no opportunities and I'm not looking for any. Joining the OpenVMS Hobbyist program allows me to keep from getting too rusty.
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When I started college in 1982, applications were done on punch cards on Apple II computers. However, over the Christmas break, a VAX/VMS system was installed. So, my college days finished out with VAX/VMS.
Then, for work, it was at a cereal manufacturing facility working in VAX/VMS - the first two years were rewriting applications from a PDP-11 to VAX/VMS in Fortran and FMS forms; after that, it was develop other system and maintain what was in place.
From there, it was a pulp and paper mill maintaining an ERP system on VAX/FMS, also in Fortran and FMS with some C for the check-writing application.
In 2011, I switched companies and didn't work with VMS anymore.
But... I recently started a new job and in the interview process, I was asked what my experience with OpenVMS was.. so there is hope yet! Even if it is rewriting applications into a Windows environment and shutting down the OpenVMS application.
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I'm the complete opposite. Exclusively Windows. 7 as work, company didn't trust anything beyond that yet.
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Wow - a lot of Windows users! Me, I've been OpenSUSE for about 10 years, and mostly Linux since since 1993. After about 2000, other 'nixes (eg Solaris) went by the board. Used Windows (XP/7) from about 2006-2012 as required by some corporate environments I contracted to, but never really got used to them, and happily left them behind .
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Windows 10 all over the place, at work and at home. I find Linux very interesting, but as I'm already pressed for time to keep up with all new .NET innovations like .NET Core, Windows is my priority. Some colleagues are venturing into the Linux world however, there was even an oddball that used OpenBSD, he left last year and as nobody got a clue what to do with the OpenBSD machine on which he installed a GIT server, we replaced it with Windows 10 and Gitea.
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Win 10, desktop and tablet - I work at home, so the desktop is mostly work, the tablet is wholly home. In addition, I use an Android Tablet (technically, I have 2 1/2 android tablets - it's complicated) and an Android phone.
Win10 still isn't as good as Win7 from a user POV, and it's still an ugly bugger. It's insistence on trying - seemingly increasingly desperately - to make me use Edge is annoying but unsuccessful.
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Windows 10, as our servers have been Windows based.
But in the process of swapping all our software (database, languages, GIS infrastructure, tools) over to open source.
Some of the tools and packages we use will only run comfortably on linux, so I will be dual-booting / migrating to Ubuntu over time.
About the only MS product I am doing anything on anymore is Visual Studio Code (Python dev).
MS Office has been switched out for Libre Office, Opera does for email, SQL Server / SSIS / SSRS has been replaced by open source based off PostgreSQL / Python / RabbitMQ.
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Anything that plays porn.
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At work it is Windows 7 and Servers from 2003 to 2012...
(there is a pressure from Microsoft to move to Windows 10 on desktops however)
At home I use Fedora with different VMs (including all kind of Windows XP/7/8/10/Servers), but just realized that for the last 3-4 months I didn't used any of the Windows VMs anymore...
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Work which is from home: Win 10
If I had time to develop at home, the personal laptop is Win 8.1.
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Work uses W7 still. At home, W10, Debian on the single board computers, and some flavor of Ubuntu on Docker, I believe.
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Same laptop. I bring it with me. Triple boot, but I live and breath in win 7.
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It's not one or the other. I've moved on to Windows after the DOS days and have been using/coding on it since then (and making a living out of it), but I do use Linux in VMs essentially for tinkering and learning on my own. I've never installed Linux outside a VM except for an old netbook I still use - its 2GB of RAM was getting a little too cramped for a modern Windows version. Months back, I've also used Linux on an (old) media PC hooked up to my projector, but playing back video at 1080p without proper hardware acceleration support was a non-starter.
I use Windows 10 primarily (I tend to keep up to date on my primary boxes), but still have the full set of Windows versions (clients/servers) in VMs for testing. Personally, I hate abandoning old versions of Windows if the software I write doesn't explicitly take advantage of features that are exclusive to the newer versions. For example, if it weren't for the fact that I'd rather use the latest .NET runtime, there's little reason the software I write for my own purposes couldn't still run even on XP.
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Work PC uses Windows as that's the most widely supported platform by third-party software, including IDEs for pretty much everything, including embedded tooling. Home PC is Windows for right about the same reason.
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