What operating system are you using?
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immaletyoufinish
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That depends entirely on what your goals are. For a lot of my use cases Windows is neither compatible nor easy to use in the slightest.
That being said I have a 50/50 split. The main box runs Win8 because reasons and inside that I've got an Ubuntu VM which I use about half the time to do dev, scripting and scraping.
Personally I think using both Windows and Linux in one machine through the use of a Virtual Machine is pretty much the ideal setup. Linux is just ridiculously powerful if you know how to use it right. Windows just has some stuff you need. They both have their advantages and disadvantages, so by using them both you just get the best of both worlds. I'm 100% satisfied with my setup.
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The Scarlet Pimp
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i use linux. you can partition the drive and have linux and windows.
choppa2choppa
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El Capitan but have windows 7 on a VM for SEO, also use ubuntu/debian for server related stuff.
umerjutt00
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Using Windows 10 on 2 laptops. It takes much less resources and load times are fast too as compared to Win 7.
MoneyFinder
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OpenSUSE Linux 
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Windows 8 partition mostly just cause of compatibility with common stuff and cbf running a vm, I feel like windows has become increasingly cancerous though and is almost unbearable at windows 8 unless you change a lotta stuff around (wtf were they thinking with windows 8 startup menu??)
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Ditto. In many cases, unix is the "only" real way to go especially if you are a developer. I love Unix without a doubt. I do also have unix VMs in my Win 8.1 for different reasons. For other reasons, I already have a ubuntu VPS which I can "putty-into" anytime.
What I assumed in my previous post is the fact that most of the users here are IMers and use off-the-shelf software solutions. Allthough some of them are web based, many of them are still "windows-only" , or "stable-on-windows". Hence, the comment.
What I assumed in my previous post is the fact that most of the users here are IMers and use off-the-shelf software solutions. Allthough some of them are web based, many of them are still "windows-only" , or "stable-on-windows". Hence, the comment.
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kahuna74
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No viruses, free upgrades forever, you can do a lot of stuff quicker from the command line when you get good at it.
HoNeYBiRD
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I'm using Windows 10 Pro since 6 months now. Usually i'm slow in upgrading OSes to the latest release, i switched from Win XP to Win 7 when Win 8 was already out, but this time i switched early enough. I thought i won't like Win 10 after Win 7, but i actually do.
One serious pro of Win 10 is that if you run your system throughout weeks without shutting it down, all the previous Win OSes starts to lag after some time, just a few days, Win 10 doesn't do that, it's as fast at the end of the 3rd week as it was on day one. At first i thought it's because the new install, when every OS performs better, but it wasn't the case, Win 10 kept its fast performance. It's overall faster, resource optimization is better than in any previous Win OSes. I know because i used this exact same config with Win 7 and now with Win 10 it's faster, performs better.
After a half year of usage i needed to came to the conclusion that Win 10 is superior to any previous Win OSes (at least out of those i used, i have never tried Vista, Win 8, 8.1). I don't have high expectations though, Win XP was already good enough for me.
One serious pro of Win 10 is that if you run your system throughout weeks without shutting it down, all the previous Win OSes starts to lag after some time, just a few days, Win 10 doesn't do that, it's as fast at the end of the 3rd week as it was on day one. At first i thought it's because the new install, when every OS performs better, but it wasn't the case, Win 10 kept its fast performance. It's overall faster, resource optimization is better than in any previous Win OSes. I know because i used this exact same config with Win 7 and now with Win 10 it's faster, performs better.
After a half year of usage i needed to came to the conclusion that Win 10 is superior to any previous Win OSes (at least out of those i used, i have never tried Vista, Win 8, 8.1). I don't have high expectations though, Win XP was already good enough for me.