List all the OS you currently actively use (computers & phones/tablets)

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Limp Gawd
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Sorry if already asked but simple question. Narrowed to computers and phone/tablets so not to include whatever in house systems your other devices may use. Or your work devices...

Mine:

Windows 10 Pro (1511)
Windows 7 Pro SP1 (7601)
Windows XP Pro SP3 (don't remember the build)
Android 6.0
Nokia Series 30+
 
Windows 10 on my Dell Venue 8 Pro
Windows 7/Linux Mint dual boot on my Desktop
Windows 7 on my laptop
Windows 7 on my kids desktop
 
Desktop PC: Windows 8.1 Pro
MacBook Pro: El Capitan 10.11.6
HTC 10: Android 6.0.1 (rooted)
Samsung Tab S2: Android 6.0.1
 
new PC: Win7Pro64 - Win10Pro Dual Boot

old PC: Win Vista 64 (currently using daily) - Win XP 32 (rarely active, no online use) Dual Boot

Galaxy S4 and S5: Android
 
In order of time spent in the OS:

Mac OS X 10.10 - general desktop + content creation + general laptop
Gentoo - file/web servers + wife's laptop
Windows 10 - work
CentOS 6 - storage server
Windows 7 - games + legacy apps
Windows XP and 7 embedded - specialised systems
 
Windows 10 Pro - Home Desktop, Work Laptop
Windows 7 Pro - Work VM for administration stuff.
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter - Homelab VM
Ubuntu 16.04 Server - Homelab VM
Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop - Homelab laptop
Mac OSX El Capitan - Personal laptop
iOS 10 - Iphone 6 and Ipad
 
old PC: Win Vista 64 (currently using daily) - Win XP 32 (rarely active, no online use) Dual Boot

Yeah I don't particularly want to go online with my dated XP either (not that the ancient Toshiba running the said XP really has any need for such either)
 
- Ubuntu MATE 16.04, main PC.
- Ubuntu MATE 15.??, work laptop.
- Windows 10, Gaming PC.
- Windows 10, daughters i5 NUC.
- Windows 7, HTPC.
- AmigaOS 3.1, Amiga 1200 with 68030 overclocked to 40Mhz and 128mb fastram @ Indivision AGA MkIICr.
- AmigaOS 3.1, Amiga 500 with 68030 overclocked to 40Mhz and 128mb fastram @ Indivision OCS/ECS.
- 2012 Mac Mini, 16GB ram, home made SSD Fusion drive, OSX 10.11.6.
- PPC based Mac Mini, overclocked to 1.5Ghz, MorphOS 3.9.
- Nexus 9, Android 6.0.1.
- Nexus 5 Android 6.0.1.
- VM for testing, Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 running under Parallels.
- Windows SBS 2011 server.
 
Windows 7 for gaming pc
Windows Server 2008 R2 (Virtual server, runs ma VMz)
Ubuntu 16 or whatver is new (Minecraft server)
Windows Server 2003 Standard (Antivirus VM)
Windows XP sp3 about 4-5 older laptops run this (Various classic gaming setups)

Coming soon.. Mac OS X vm as a music server
 
Reformatting an intel NUC soon to run Kodibuntu/Kodi or some type of linux variant.
Windows 7 on HTPC as I had a spare key.. Oddly it's the ult edition.
Windows 8.1 on my parents small laptop
Windows 10 x3 on the three main computers (mine, brothers, parents). Desktops.
Mac OSX on my macbook air.
Android 5/6/7 on Samsung Galaxy S5 - Nexus 5 (original)/Moto G 3rd Gen/ Nexus 6P respectively.
 
Home use:
Win 7 x64
Android 6.0.1

Work:
VxWorks 5.4.1
VMX/VAX
Windows 3.1
Windows NT 4
OS/2
Windows XP
Plus a few other embedded OS Kernels that are Unix/Linux based
 
Home use:
Win 7 x64
Android 6.0.1

Work:
VxWorks 5.4.1
VMX/VAX
Windows 3.1
Windows NT 4
OS/2
Windows XP
Plus a few other embedded OS Kernels that are Unix/Linux based

Wow! Windows 3.1? At work?! Really?

What do you use Windows 3.1 for?
 
Windows 10 at home. Android phone and tablets. Windows 8 at work. Occasional use of Mint, continue to attempt and fail to learn it better.
 
Antergos linux
Debian 7 and 8
Ubuntu server
VMWare ESXi (hypervisor)
OSX El Capitan
OSX Lion
Windows 10 (3 gaming boxes)
Windows 8 (virtual)
Windows 7 (virtual)
 
Windows 10 Pro (Gaming machine and Server)
Windows 10 Home (Dell E6510 Laptop)
Windows 7 Ultimate (HP DV7 Laptop)
Windows XP SP3 (Alienware Laptop)
iOS 9 on iPad 3
iOS 10 on iPhone SE
tvOS on Apple TV4
Android 4.something on my LG gTAB
OSX El Capitan on my MacBook Air
 
Win 10 on my Desktop
Win 10 on two side biz laptops
Win 7 on laptop (Soon to be a linux distort)
Android 6.0 + 5.0.1

Windows 7 at work, as well as OS X 10.11.whatever
 
Windows 10 Pro 1607 on 2 desktops and one Surface Pro 3
Windows 7 in 3 Virtual Machines
Windows Vista Ultimate in One Virtual Machine
Windows XP in 2 Virtual Machines
Ubuntu 16.04 in 2 Virtual machine and One Desktop
Linux Mint in one Desktop
Windows 10 Mobile 14393.189 (Release Preview)
 
Windows 10 Pro (Gaming PC/Work from home/HTPC/etc.)
Windows 7 Pro (Machine @ work)
Mac OSX 10.10 (Other machine @ work I barely touch, but it's there)
Android 6.0 (Moto X Pure Edition Phone)

We probably have some old iPads running a 5 year old version of iOS somewhere in my office, but I don't have any personally.
 
Personal Systems:
iOS 10.0.1: iPhone, iPad
WatchOS 3.0: Apple Watch
tvOS 6.2.1: Apple TV 2
tvOS 7.2.1: Apple TV 3
tvOS 10.0: Apple TV 4
Mac OS 10.12: iMac
Windows 7: Gaming PC


Work Systems:
Windows 7: Workstation
AIX 7: Various servers
Redhat EL 6/7: Various Servers
 
Windows 10 for my desktop, laptop and the wife's laptop.
Android N on my and my wife's Nexus 5X phones and my Nexus tablet
Android M on the Nvidia ShieldTV streaming box
RasbianOS on my RPi Ubuquiti Unifi controller
SynologyOS on my Synology NAS
OpenElec (Kodi) on the car-mounted RPi.

Work:
About a billion systems and machines across the DoD, but my personal desktops are still on Windows 7
 
Hmm. OK. I'll bite. Here are all the systems I run at home:

Workstation
  • Primary OS: Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon Edition
  • Secondary OS (for games): Windows 10 Pro (Anniversary Edition)
HTPC's (3x)
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Edition (so there is no GUI) with Kodi configured to run directly ontop of Openbox.

Virtualized Server:
Proxmox (Debian Jessie based) with the following Containers/VM's
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: Dedicated to SMB Network Shares
  • Ubuntu 14.04 Server Container: Dedicated to NetAtalk (Apple file sharing and time machine)
  • Ubuntu 14.04 Mythbuntu Container: (MythTV PVR Backend)
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: Dedicated DHCP server for HD Homerun tuners on separate network.
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: General use server (offline downloads, archive files, etc.)
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: Dedicated SFTP server
  • Ubuntu 14.04 Server Virtual Machine: Mounts NAS folders, performs reverse encyption and presents encrypted files to Crashplan backup container.
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: Dedicated to Crashplan backup application.
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: Dedicated to Ubiquiti Unifi application to manage my two Wifi AP's
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: Dedicated to TeamSpeak3 server
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: Dedicated to NTOPNG network statistics collection. (in process, having problems with getting container to listen in promiscuous mode)
  • Ubuntu 16.04 Server Container: Dedicated to CSGO Server.
Router:
  • pfSense (BSD based Router/Firewall OS)

Work Issued Laptop
  • Windows 7 Enterprise
  • Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon Edition (Booted from USB stick when needed)

So those are my own systems, but I also manage a few more in my house:

Fiance's 27" iMac
  • OS X El Capitan

Fiance's Laptop
  • Primary OS: Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon Edition
  • Secondary OS: Windows 10 Pro (Anniversary Edition)
Stepson's Desktop
  • Primary OS: Windows 10 Pro (Anniversary Edition)
  • Secondary OS: Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon Edition
And then there's a handful of iOS (stepsons iPad, Fiance's iPhone) and Android (My Nexus 5x and 2013 Nexus 7) devices as well.
 
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Linux Mint MATE on all my machines and laptop. Android on LG phone and Nexus 7.

Windows XP and 10 as virtual machines under Linux host, for running Windows apps.
 
macOS for my primary iMac and MBP
IOS 10 for my zoo of i-devices
CentOS 7 for my folding system
ESXi for my home server (with Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD mix of different VMs)












(And a hardly ever used win 8 tablet)
 
Windows 7 Pro x64 (bare metal)
macOS Sierra (VM)

Android 4.0.4 on a Samsung Galaxy S
Android 4.4.4 (CyanogenMod 11) on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Android 5.1.1 on a LG G Flex 2
Android 6.0.1 on a Samsung Galaxy S7 Active
BlackBerry OS 10 on a BlackBerry Z10
 
Arch Linux - my laptop - most likely moving to a Chromebook after laptop dies.
Arch Linux - primary work laptop - Latitude E7470 - with Win10 VM for Office 2013 until the migration to 365 is complete. Then Windows 10 can die in a fire.
Arch Linux - secondary work laptop - XPS 13
Windows 10 Home - wife's laptop - she's going Chromebook after grad school whenever the current laptop dies
iOS 10 - wife's iPhone 6S - she hates it with a passion. She'll be JUMPing to Android soon enough.
iOS 10 - son's iPad
Android 6.0.1 - my LG G5
CyanogenMod 10.1 (Android 4.1.2) - old slow ass Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - used strictly for Google Opinion Rewards :D
 
Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 Pro
Windows 10 Pro
ChromeOS
Android Marshmallow
 
Wow! Windows 3.1? At work?! Really?

What do you use Windows 3.1 for?

We need it for a specific low level program that drives a couple dozen pieces of custom hardware. The transfer of commands has to be within a few microseconds at most, and most modern OS's can't guarantee that low level of latency. An RTOS could, but no one wants to spend the time/money to re-write the software from scratch. And yes, the PC in question is isolated from the Internet, for obvious reasons.
 
We need it for a specific low level program that drives a couple dozen pieces of custom hardware. The transfer of commands has to be within a few microseconds at most, and most modern OS's can't guarantee that low level of latency. An RTOS could, but no one wants to spend the time/money to re-write the software from scratch. And yes, the PC in question is isolated from the Internet, for obvious reasons.

I had no idea that old Windows 3.1 systems had lower latency I/O than modern systems.

Or is it just that the old 16bit code doesn't run well on modern operating systems?
 
I live in a Windows World!

Gaming PC: Dual-boot with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Pro 1607
Work PC: Windows 7 Enterprise SP1
Surface Pro 4: Windows 10 Pro 1511
Phone: What operating system?
I had no idea that old Windows 3.1 systems had lower latency I/O than modern systems.

Or is it just that the old 16bit code doesn't run well on modern operating systems?
I would imagine it is a combination of increased complexity in the operation of modern operating systems. Things like the kernel and command queuing, the scheduler, etc.
 
I would imagine it is a combination of increased complexity in the operation of modern operating systems. Things like the kernel and command queuing, the scheduler, etc.

Yeah, Linux has special low latency kernels for stuff like that, but that - again - would require a rewrite of the code.

I wonder why they didn't do it on NT to begin with. Would probably have been more reliable than 3.1
 
We need it for a specific low level program that drives a couple dozen pieces of custom hardware. The transfer of commands has to be within a few microseconds at most, and most modern OS's can't guarantee that low level of latency. An RTOS could, but no one wants to spend the time/money to re-write the software from scratch. And yes, the PC in question is isolated from the Internet, for obvious reasons.

Interesting, it's been so long since I've used 3.1 that I don't think I could even remember how to navigate it now...
 
Interesting, it's been so long since I've used 3.1 that I don't think I could even remember how to navigate it now...

I'm sure it would come back quickly.

I may fire it up in a VM. (Or maybe in DosBox? Will it run in DosBox?) For old times sake to play around.
 
Yeah, Linux has special low latency kernels for stuff like that, but that - again - would require a rewrite of the code.

I wonder why they didn't do it on NT to begin with. Would probably have been more reliable than 3.1

NT didn't exist yet. Our next system used VMS/VAX, which was essentially brought out by MSFT and the developers went on to create...Windows NT.
 
around 6 copys of windows 2012 r2 (my favorite os) one win 7 laptop 1 win 10 vm and a fre esxi servers with ubuntu and 2012 server r2 :p
 
3 PCs with Win 7 Pro (Workstation, Office and home server)
4 PCs with Win 10/Pro (HTPC, 3 Primegrid boxen)
1 PC with Win XP Pro (Retro gamer box)
2 XP Pro VMs (for old 16/32 bit software)
1 Win 3.1 VM (for the games!)
1 Phone with Android 6.0.1 (Galaxy S7)
1 Laptop with Linux Mint Mate
1 Zune HD with Windows CE 6
Do calculators count?
TI-84+SE (physical+VM): 2.55MP
TI-89 Titanium (phys/VM): 3.10

There are many more computers, laptops and servers with various Windows and Linux OS's (and one System 7), but they aren't really active.
 
Android 6/Marshmallow on LG G3 via Xenon HD Rom
Android 4.4.4/Kit Kat on GPD XD Emulator Device
Android 5.1/Lollipop on Moto E (x2)
Android 2.3.4/Gingerbread on Sony Xperia Play (retired)

Windows 7 Professional on Desktop (Xeon E3 1231 v3)
Windows 10 on HP Laptop (Envy 13, Skylake)

xUbuntu 14.04 on Acer E11 Cloudbook (Quadcore Baytrail)
xUbuntu 16.04 on Shuttle AM3 XPC (Phenom II x6)
Debian Jessy on Seagate Dockstar

^ Personal, below are work machines

About a dozen desktops (Mac Pros of various Intel generations) running MacOSX, mostly the last 3 versions (Yosem, El Capt, Sierra), includes Avid machines, Protools multitrack, Adobe Cloud seats, Cinema 4D, etc.
Windows Vista on the older Maya render machines
Fedora/Red Hat on the 16 blade render farm and Smoke machine
Windows 7 on the Chyron/Character Generator
Windows 7 on the broadcast server and livestreamer
Windows 7 on the disk recorder
Windows 8 on the laptop for the DMX setup
Windows XP (heh) on the Midi controlled lightboard laptop setup, this machine never connects to the lan OR the internet, thank god.
Windows XP for the switcher. Also not online.
Couple of iMacs for the interns, no idea what's on them.

We tend to not update a lot of the production machines, especially if they're not online/connected to the internet... uptime and stability is more important than OS updates. So when it works, we firewall it off or leave it off the lan and never allow it to update. If it goes online, it gets updated on regular patch cycles.

Some of the machines are also on a separate fiber network, like the render farm. They tend to stay in their own little corner away from the other machines and aren't connected to the other machines on the LAN. Everything that does need to have an output does so via SDI throughout the studio.
 
Windows 10 Enterprise on my machine listed in my signature.
Windows Vista x64 Ultimate/Windows XP (SP3) dual-boot on my QX9650 to play older games.
OS X 10.12 on my MBP
 
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