Thread: Whats your OS?

Originally Posted by parkerskouson

I'm not very excited for windows 8. I think it is too touch oriented rather than a mouse and keyboard... Ill stick to the alpha of Ubuntu 12.12

I suppose with the advent of the smart phones gaining dominance, the tablet gaining market share and may out distance the laptop, the young folks coming up will be much more comfortable with touch screens. I love my droid .Wave of the future stuff. The mouse and external keyboard may be going the way of the floppy disc.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I suppose with the advent of the smart phones gaining dominance, the tablet gaining market share and may out distance the laptop, the young folks coming up will be much more comfortable with touch screens. I love my droid .Wave of the future stuff. The mouse and external keyboard may be going the way of the floppy disc.

I see this as well which I dont look forward to. I had this conversation with other developers and the concensus was, sure touch has its place but we really prefer a keyboard for development.

Geek

XP Pro on my dinosaur desktop (ran Win2K when I built it back in '92). Dual boot OSX and Linux on my old Power Book G4. Droid on my HTC EVO 4G.

Trust me, I love my tablet and my HTC Evo 4g! Don't get me wrong! I just can't stand typing more than about 200 characters although an actually keyboard. Not the tiny flat keyboards, real keyboards with some bulk!

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I have a Macbook Pro at the moment - it has Mountain Lion on it (after a weekend lost to the vagaries of recovery partitions and IT technicians who apparently do not know how to partition a hard drive correctly).

I have a refurbed Mac Pro with Mountain Lion. If you partition a drive you lose the recovery partition. Really easy to reinstall with a little app called Carbon Copy Cloner even after the fact.

Keyboard and mouse will probably be around for awhile. Eventually all we'll have to do is think it and it will be on the screen .....

Originally Posted by parkerskouson

Trust me, I love my tablet and my HTC Evo 4g! Don't get me wrong! I just can't stand typing more than about 200 characters although an actually keyboard. Not the tiny flat keyboards, real keyboards with some bulk!

I came across a tablet/laptop with 2 screens. One where the keyboard should be. When turned into a laptop a keyboard came up on that screen. Clearly designed as a gimmick as essentially it was useless unless you watch your fingers, because with a virtual keyboard you clearly lack home key markings making touch typing impossible
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I can type faster than I can speak. Keyboard and mouse won't be gone just yet for any sort of serious writing/number-crunching work. Also, they're a lot quieter than voice commands (which have their uses).

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

I can type faster than I can speak. Keyboard and mouse won't be gone just yet for any sort of serious writing/number-crunching work. Also, they're a lot quieter than voice commands (which have their uses).

Lol you clearly are not from the west of Scotland. Voice recognition doesn't work particularly well with a Glaswegian accent.

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Originally Posted by JBHoren

I'm JimmyHAD's sysadmin. I started working with the Unix command line in 1984...

Wooohooo!!! It is so great to see we have a lot of Unixers in this forum!!!
I too started with the simple (but very effective) terminal command line. The first Unix beast I was working with was a PDP-11, then VAX-11. Very serious stuff! :-) Unix rules! ;-)