The 2020 Operating System Thread

[RukyCon]

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Still on Windows 7, even though support is ending really soon, i still plan on using it for the foreseeable future. But if i do have to "upgrade" in the future, then i will likely jump ship to Linux, but hopefully, that won't be for a few more years.

[Dan81]

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Okay, let's see:

makn PC- Win10 Enterprise LTSC
Sempron AM3 - XP SP3
P3 CuMine Slot1 (original, not slotket) - Win98SE
HP DV6000 - Win7 x86 SP1
Acer Aspire 7520 - Win7 x64 SP1
Acer Aspire 5536 - same
Acer Aspire 5520 - same
Dell Latitude E6400 - same as 7520 (is 10 capable by a long shot tho)
ASUS X59SL - Win7 x64 SP1
ASUS X51L - Win XP SP3
Acer Aspire 5738Z - Win7 SP1 x64
Compaq Armada E500 - Win98SE
Compaq Armada 110 - Win2000 Pro SP4


That's about all. Not included is a AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 that I put up for sale, running 8.1.

[bigbeark]

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I am using Linux Mint 19.3 Mate 64-bit on all my machines. The only 32-bit machines that can cope at all seem to be Intel P4s with HyperThreading and those just barely. The oldest 64-bit machines I use are 939 dual cores.

[pfrcom]

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Currently dual-booting MX Linux and Win10 on several notebooks, with MX as default

Rarely boot Win10, usually only to apply updates

My tips for MX:

1. Change preferences via GUI MX Tools, no need to consider CLI

a. "MX Tweak" to change from "Display panel vertically" to "Display panel horizontally" (don't forget to click Apply after making change)

b. "Repo Manager" to change updates source (for Australians, I found Australia, Sydney - mirror.datamossa.io to be better than Melbourne's default)

c. "Boot Options" to set default O/S

I prefer MX version 18.3 to current 19, because they dropped some minor menu items (to date I've missed Solitaire and SMTube, both of which can be readily installed anyway)

Bundle includes Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice

I'm glad to have left *buntu behind - have dabbled with it since days when Canonical sent CDs through snail mail

[donnie0511]

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for home use windows 7 for work i have server 2016

[Topcat]

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for home use windows 7 for work i have server 2016

I've been wondering how S2k16 standard carves down into a workstation OS....I don't have a copy to test with.... S2K8 and S2K12 both were excellent for this.

[Uranium-235]

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Mainstream system? You'll have to be more specific

Personal laptop - Lenovo flex 6 14 (touch). Win 10 64 home (didn't have a choice, but it works great anyways)

Gaming system - Custom. Win 10 Pro (newer games require it)

I use both those I guess my mainstream systems are Win 10

others include


Shop system - Custom (older - Phenom II 910) - Win7 pro 64

Housecall laptop - Lenovo, don't remember model - Win 7 pro. Won't use personal laptop because it's not cheap (though I bought lightly used from my sister, and upgraded the shit out of it). This lenovo is cheap, stolen or broken, not that big a deal

[Topcat]

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Mainstream system? You'll have to be more specific

...and to whom were you addressing that question?

[Uranium-235]

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I guess you since you asked it?

guess you can say I have TWO mainstream systems, but since they're both forms of win 10 64 (diff being editions). The answer is obvious

side note: I develop .net on a virtualized version of 7 pro 32-bit on the lenovo flex

[Topcat]

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I guess you since you asked it?

I (like you) have different systems for different things....but no matter who you are, we always have one system that we favor/gets used the heaviest....that's the 'mainstream' system.

[donnie0511]

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in regards to carving server 2016 into a workstation i disabled telemetry enabled wifi sound cards works out of box the system itself is a hp workstation xw6600 8gb ram 1.75 tb hard drive space total

[Topcat]

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in regards to carving server 2016 into a workstation i disabled telemetry enabled wifi sound cards works out of box the system itself is a hp workstation xw6600 8gb ram 1.75 tb hard drive space total

On server versions, telemetry/CEIP should be disabled by default afaik....atleast it was in previous versions.

[Curious.George]

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I (like you) have different systems for different things....but no matter who you are, we always have one system that we favor/gets used the heaviest....that's the 'mainstream' system.

That's not the case, for me, at all.

I deal with email/WWW on this (W7) box, prepare documentation on another W7 box, write code on a NetBSD box, check the code for portability on still another Solaris/SPARC box, run my VMs on an ESXi server, my core network services (ARP, DNS, NTP, etc.) are hosted on a small NetBSD server that's up 24/7/365, another NetBSD server handles my file repository/VCS/DBMS, next week I'll start a hardware design on another W7 box, then do the design for the enclosure on yet another, etc.

On any given day, the time spent on any particular machine will vary but none is truly "favored" (the machines are all powered up, but "sleeping", so I can sit down in front of any of them and be "working" within seconds).

It would simply be too difficult to maintain ONE machine (under one OS) that had all of the capabilities that I need. <shrug>

[Topcat]

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That's not the case, for me, at all.

I deal with email/WWW on this (W7) box, prepare documentation on another W7 box, write code on a NetBSD box, check the code for portability on still another Solaris/SPARC box, run my VMs on an ESXi server, my core network services (ARP, DNS, NTP, etc.) are hosted on a small NetBSD server that's up 24/7/365, another NetBSD server handles my file repository/VCS/DBMS, next week I'll start a hardware design on another W7 box, then do the design for the enclosure on yet another, etc.

On any given day, the time spent on any particular machine will vary but none is truly "favored" (the machines are all powered up, but "sleeping", so I can sit down in front of any of them and be "working" within seconds).

It would simply be too difficult to maintain ONE machine (under one OS) that had all of the capabilities that I need. <shrug>

Allow me to rephrase: 99.9987% of those have one system they mainstream.

[Curious.George]

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Allow me to rephrase: 99.9987% of those have one system they mainstream.

Note, however, that 84.69% of all statistics are made up...

[Topcat]

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Note, however, that 84.69% of all statistics are made up...

We were talking about mainstream computers, not mainstream media!!

[donnie0511]

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about telemetry on server 2016 it not installed until first round of updates and is auto enabled when updated and you can not opt out of updates because it is based on windows 10

[Topcat]

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about telemetry on server 2016 it not installed until first round of updates and is auto enabled when updated and you can not opt out of updates because it is based on windows 10

You can opt out of updates with win10pro with gpedit.

In Server, CEIP (telemetry) can be disabled in Server Manager.

In 10Pro, GPEDIT:

1) Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Internet Communication Management > Internet Communication settings

2) Then double-click the Turn off Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program policy.

3) Set to Enabled

4) Exit GPEDIT & Reboot

Stop forced updates dead in their tracks in GPEDIT:

Administrative Templates > System > Internet Communication Management > Internet Communication Settings

Set the “Turn off access to all Windows Update features” to Enabled.