Linux users and/or developers?

Long time developer of Oracle applications so very much at home with Unix OS.
I have Ubuntu on 3 machines at home and i hardly use Windows.... well, this year I have been using my daughter's laptop a lot and that has windows installed. ... I'll have to do something about it soon. ;)
 
Long time developer of Oracle applications so very much at home with Unix OS.
I have Ubuntu on 3 machines at home and i hardly use Windows.... well, this year I have been using my daughter's laptop a lot and that has windows installed. ... I'll have to do something about it soon. ;)

I have Windows 10 on one machine. Installed it about a year ago - for about 4 or 5 years I haven't had any computers running Windows. When I went on the forums to research generally about Windows 10, I saw numerous people claim that with Windows 10 one doesn't need third-party anti-virus, anti-malware software anymore, that the built-in Microsoft software was sufficient. So, I thought, that's probably reasonable, it is 2015 (at the time), and Microsoft presumably has enough resources to develop proper anti-virus/malware software. So, within 10 minutes of installing Windows 10, I had rather nasty malware on the system. I hadn't even installed any suspicious software, or downloaded anything from a shady website. It was from an application I installed from the official Microsoft store! I assumed that software in the Microsoft store would be curated like a Linux repo. Well, it's not, and you can't get away from using third-party anti-virus, anti-malware software on Windows, even in 2016.

And that was after like 15 hours of wrestling to get Windows installed on the machine in the first place. I had the official image directly from microsoft.com on a usb stick, but everytime it complained about missing drivers. So I tried various CDs which had come with the motherboard, video card, etc. Asked on numerous forums, &c. Finally, I came across a thread on some obscure forum where someone had asked about something similar, and the recommendation was, once Windows complains about missing drivers, to pull the usb stick out of the usb port and then plug it back in. That's completely stupid, I thought. Well, turns out that was the solution.....
 
My daughter's laptop is still running windows 7 :) she has a Mac now so she left her old laptop for me to use in front of the telly :)
I'm not a fan of Microsoft at all.... to me, personally, if it's made by Microsoft it's cr4p. I used to like windows more when the user could configure the OS but now Windows takes control of everything..... and I don't feel like I want to find a way to override windows ..... I prefer to use my time in something that I actually enjoy :) and I've had enough of computers by now lol

When working with windows then a third party solutions is almost guaranteed a better solution.
 
My daughter's laptop is still running windows 7 :) she has a Mac now so she left her old laptop for me to use in front of the telly :)
I'm not a fan of Microsoft at all.... to me, personally, if it's made by Microsoft it's cr4p. I used to like windows more when the user could configure the OS but now Windows takes control of everything..... and I don't feel like I want to find a way to override windows ..... I prefer to use my time in something that I actually enjoy :) and I've had enough of computers by now lol

When working with windows then a third party solutions is almost guaranteed a better solution.

Philosophically, I don't like proprietary, closed software. And, moreover, pragmatically, it tends to be crap.
 
I posted here 2012 using mint,,,,,still using it lol
I had mint on some machines once upon a time. it had some security issues a few months (?) back, as I recall. I've tried a variety of distros. Of newish ones, Ubuntu Mate seems pretty nice - I have it on a couple of machines.
 
I was a C programmer for 20 years, mostly on VMS, some of it on Unix but never actually Linux. Nowadays I'm more of a manager, but I still dabble in C# and PHP. Using Windows and Linux (Mint/Centos) at work. At home, I have several Macs, several Linux (Mint/Ubuntu/Microcore/Arch) machines and several Windows machines.

I did have a curly ginger beard in the early days (my hair isn't ginger!!).
 
I bought a new/small laptop a few months ago with the intention of putting a clean Win 10 install on and dual booting with a distro. Ran a couple of distros as live systems for a while. Mainly Mint & Ubuntu. Ended up installing Mint 18 and after a few weeks removed the Win 10 partition, reinstalled Mint 18 on it's own and haven't looked back since.

In regard to Ben Hunt's comments about the Mint security issues. Those were with the forums I believe and not the distro itself.

Mint has been working fine for me from day one.
 
I bought a new/small laptop a few months ago with the intention of putting a clean Win 10 install on and dual booting with a distro. Ran a couple of distros as live systems for a while. Mainly Mint & Ubuntu. Ended up installing Mint 18 and after a few weeks removed the Win 10 partition, reinstalled Mint 18 on it's own and haven't looked back since.

In regard to Ben Hunt's comments about the Mint security issues. Those were with the forums I believe and not the distro itself.

Mint has been working fine for me from day one.

The ISOs from the website were compromised: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994 . Hopefully security has been improved since then.
 
I turned my back on windows after the pushy w10 notification, and don't really like w10.
Tbh my old w7 OS was a tad dodgy, as in having to skip the update to check legit copies.
They allowed pirated copies to go through the free upgrade, but in w10 you cannot choose which updates you want to install. Sneeky fecker.
So I made the switch to Ubuntu Mate and haven't looked back. The whole terminal based UI appeals to my nerdy side.
I have since paid for an oem copy of w7 and have that on a duel boot, but I rarely use it.
On the dev side of things I went through a stage of learning android development, java and html. Nearly released an app but kind of hit a wall with a few tweaks I couldn't find the answer too. Was fun though.

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