What Operating System Do You Use On Your Home Computer and Why?

[iowa_wildcat]

Ubuntu 14.04 because it just works every day and has extremely low maintenance.

 

[bstegs]

Win8 on my normal usage PC (gaming, remoting into work, video encoding)
Win7 on 3 laptops (wife's laptops and my hardly used laptop)
Ubuntu 14.04 on a netbook (streams spotify)
Ubuntun12.04/14.04 on my DVR (runs mythtv for recording)
OpenElec on a thin client under my tv

 

[dmclone]

90% of the time Chrome OS. Does 90% of what I need it to do

10% Windows 8. When I need to use something like ITunes.

 

[BikeSkiClone]

OS X Yosemite. Love it. Easy to use for what I need/want.

 

[wxman1]

Mac. It does what we want.

 

[iowa_wildcat]

I can see why you like Yosemite. It looks very convenient for many tasks.

 

[Jordanj6502]

Windows 7 on my desktop. Two of my laptops dual-boot a version of Ubuntu and Windows 7, default is Ubuntu, but windows is there if needed/wanted (though I rarely use my laptops these days). And my third laptop is older, and runs XP. Have considered upgrading it, but decided it is nice to have a legacy machine around.

Honestly though, my most used computing device is my phone, running Android 4.4.2

 

[Clonefan94]

Mac. OS, whatever animal they were using 2 years ago. I got the computer because that's what I had at work and the company would get me a copy of Adobe Suite if I had a Mac. The thing still works like a champ, so I haven't bothered to change to anything else.

And just for reference, I'm not here to start a debate. I've had macs at work before that were flat out bad. It just so happens this one hasn't given me any problems.

 

[Clonehomer]

Just reformatted my desktop from win8 to win7. I am running win10 on my laptop. I had a lot of driver issues when using ubuntu. Lenovo is a nightmare if you aren't running the native OS on the machine.

But mostly, I use my tablet around the house that's running Android (kit Kat).

 

[iowa_wildcat]

Clonehomer, how did you get a copy of Windows 10? I understood that it was not going to be released until the late part of 2015?

 

[IcSyU]

Beta is out.

 

[Mtowncyclone13]

Windows Vista. Because I use it for the Internet occasionally and some games a few hours per year. Don't need anything fancy for that.

 

[MaccloNe]

Yosemite on my Mac Mini. It just works.

 

[CycloneWarrior]

Just upgraded to Yosemite from mountain lion today, never downloaded mavericks. I don't have an iPhone, so I'm not really sure there's a ton of changes for me other than some of the design.

 

[ExCyment]

Mac. It does what we want.

Nah it does what it wants, good luck getting it to do what you want.

 

[3TrueFans]

What, nobody else uses Windows ME?

 

[BikeSkiClone]

Just upgraded to Yosemite from mountain lion today, never downloaded mavericks. I don't have an iPhone, so I'm not really sure there's a ton of changes for me other than some of the design.

Yeah, it's definitely more useful for those with other Apple products. I have an iPhone and have debated getting an iPad since I don't use my laptop anymore. I upgraded from Mavericks, as I just recently got this iMac. Continuity and syncing was a pretty big part of the Yosemite upgrade.

 

[mapnerd]

OS X on our Mac - need to upgrade to Yosemite soon.
xUbuntu 14.04 on a netbook.
iOS on our iPhones too. Need to upgrade those as well. Waiting for 8.1.

 

[stormchaser2014]

Windows 95. Can't ever part with Sim City Classic

 

[wxman1]

Nah it does what it wants, good luck getting it to do what you want.

We want to use the browser, Microsoft office and iPhoto.it does all of those.

I am not a mac guy but my old laptop died and we didn't see a need to replace it when my wife had a MacBook.