Friday poll: which operating system do you use?
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@hlehyaric Then obviously we need a rebellion army of angry koalas. We do not, however, need an idiot character with irritating voice & stupid droopy ears.
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@Steffie said in Friday poll: which operating system do you use?:
army of angry koalas
I foresee some divisions here… I strongly support the Platypuses Flying Squadron .
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@Gwen-Dragon That's the bright side coming from this poll .
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@hlehyaric said in Friday poll: which operating system do you use?:
Platypuses
Our native monotremes pride themselves on their Latin and mathematical veracity. Ergo, their correct plural is
platy3.1415926535
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@hlehyaric Pffff. Pretty sure some are snotty enough to select Android in the poll to hide the fact they have Windows installed on their PC.
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@Ornorm Many of us are running Android, cause you know… there aren't so many options out there. Sigh
Though there are some alternatives to Android, you struggle a little bit to get rid of it (BTW, I haven't even tried ) -
@Ornorm well, I mostly use my Windows PCs and almost don't use my android phone unless I'm not at home, in my case I voted my main system. I guess many people just use phones if they vote for mobile OSes.
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@hlehyaric said in Friday poll: which operating system do you use?:
Though there are some alternatives to Android
Yes. Too few... And, to be honest, apart from what we can think about MS, I thought it was "healthier" when MS had its own OS for phones (Nokia for example) because, for me, having more than two big competitors in the phone OS industry "breaks" the monopoly a bit.
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@Ornorm Yeah. And they were better than android on middle-to-low range price. But they had a very poor apps support.
They also planned an android2winphone wrapper. Which never saw the light.
But I'm happy that Nokia is back to the (almost) stock Android even if they should release few sailfish phones (with android support) too ^^, -
@Hadden89 said in Friday poll: which operating system do you use?:
android2winphone wrapper
Are you referring to Microsoft Launcher? (which seems to be quite successful - more than 10M installations on the PlayStore)
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@Ornorm Nope. A wrapper which convert - or make usable - the android apps&google play services - on the now defunct Windows Phone. And android MS apps are not so bad as the launcher or the keyboard.
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@hlehyaric By coincidence (not joking), I just watched the video Apple guy gets his first PC and I thought the "guy" could be you...
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In hindsight the poll should have been split in two and ask for the main operating system.
- What is your main desktop operating system?
- What is your main mobile operating system?
As it presents itself users will just list all operating systems they use, even if they use one of them rarely to never. I would expect to see even less Vivaldi MacOS/iOS users, because Vivaldi has no iOS version and sync is important. Moreover Linux is likely well overrepresented because people are likely to have a second install on some harddrive or a raspberry pi. Not that it matters much, since Vivaldi collects the operating system data of active users anyway.
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@Ornorm , I use Windows Phone for a long time. It is true that the Store was not as wide as that of Android, although it had enough apps, and also less junk that are half the apps for Android.
Anyway as mobile OS was much better than Android in every respect. Too bad he's disappeared from the market. -
@Gort said in Friday poll: which operating system do you use?:
Voted.
I mainly use Linux and Android, but I do have a Windows 10 installation that I not very often use. Feels a bit unfair that I've given Windows the same score as I would Linux and Android, despite the usage difference.
Also glad that Linux is prominent amongst the Vivaldi community.
I maintain a Windows (10, but not sure what build) installation purely for one piece of software (the remapping tool for tuning my modern-car's ECU). I have almost-exclusively used some *nix variant since the millennium. As a result, I voted only "Linux" because I thought it unfair to give Windows the same score. Similarly, I have an Android device but I can't remember the last time I used it, so it didn't feel fair clicking "Android" either. So basically I just use GNU/Linux and whatever the Nokia 3310 runs.
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@jfsvivaldi01 said in Friday poll: which operating system do you use?:
I've found the primary benefit to running Linux is that after installing it on a device and configuring it, I don't have to think about it.
^^^This.
I didn't boot my Win10 installation for a few months and it spent literally days and days updating, rebooting, updating. When it was done, I accidentally clicked an optional driver-update and it broke the system, which required further repair-effort and babysitting. That's ignoring the fact that every single program I had installed also wanted to spend geological timeframes updating itself. I have a Gentoo box that's quicker and less-painful to update!
In contrast, the similarly out-of-date Debian partition on the same machine just required a single 15-minute "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" to be completely up-to-date, kernel, OS, programs, the lot. I could have done it via the GUI or just let it update automatically, but I wanted to see what was going on, just in case there was a problem.
I no longer even use Windows at work, because I need something that "just works" and gets out of the way, and I need to get my work done. I don't have time to mess around fixing something that's broken yet again, resetting my default apps or settings, or simply waiting on that blue boot-screen for some update I didn't schedule, when I've got deadlines to meet.
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It would also be interesting to see a poll of CPU-architecture. I know amd64 would probably take 9/10 of the vote, and it's not always easy for the average Android user to know what variant of ARM they're probably using, but I'd still be curious to see how many people there are still using i386.
It's now 18 years since the last 32-bit desktop CPU from Intel, 14 years since their last 32-bit laptop CPU, and 10 since their last 32-bit netbook CPU. Until recently, I was using all 3. Now I only have the netbook in daily use, but it looks and runs exactly as it did in 2008, so unless you're a gamer it's easy to forget just how much hardware has moved on. While there are still i386 users out there, it's still worth compiling Vivaldi for them - and that means the i386 hardware stays out of landfill just a little bit longer.
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32bit puppy linux user here..no problems and no headaches.
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@Priest72 So, not a sick puppy, then?