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A heavily customized Arch Linux setup with a tiling window manager (not a desktop) and a lot of other cool things

GUIs are overrated. For power users, the command line is usually better.

Also, the Windows 8 UI sucks unless you like your computer to look like your phone. If course, Windows sucks in general as well but that's another story

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OK, fine. Much as I wanted to leave that as my entire post... : )

• #! (CrunchBang) Linux (Debian based) on servers and forensics VMs
• OS X 10.9.1DP2 on daily driver MacBook Pro
• OS X 10.9 GM on hackintosh graphics workstation
• Debian on Rπ
• System 7.5.5 on Mac SE/30
• NetBSD on Quadra 700
• Windows 7 in VM when I have to hold my users' hands

- Windows 8.1 -- primarily for gaming;
- Linux Mint 16 (Cinnamon DE);
- Sabayon GNU/Linux (Xfce4 + OpenBox).

GUIs are overrated for server management, especially given that it's not hard to get Windows clients to connect to a Linux server via Samba. At the end of the day, you don't need to pay the price of an adequate used car for Windows Server.

Having said that, WYSIWYG interfaces are popular for a reason—and they speed up anything that's not server related. Try programming in Eclipse, LiteIDE, NetBeans or MS Visual Studio vs. programming in Vim with GCC and see for yourself.

I'm not speaking from ignorance here, but thanks for assuming that. I've programmed in several of the IDEs you mention as well as Emacs and Vim.

You're assuming that people use Vim with the CLI with gcc as separate programs. It's possible to use Vim as an IDE that is more efficient than your GUI IDEs due to its lack of reliance on the mouse.

I didn't say that you were ignorant or that Vim, Emacs, Nano and similar programs were useless. Unix commands have an error rate ranging from 3 to 53 percent among people with computer related jobs, though, so unless we're talking low level modules or scripting, these programs have very few advantages over conventional IDEs.

Windows 7
Manjaro Linux 0.8.8, Kernel: 3.12.1

windows 8

Backtrack linux r5

Windows 8 at home and at work. Windows XP on my old gaming machine, but it's still waiting for me to replace the mobo so I'm
not sure that counts!

Android phone (Xperia Z1)

Windows 8.0, by choice, and I love it.

Had so many issues with 8.1.

My favorite version of Windows overall is probably XP Professional 64-bit edition, though on my laptop I'm currently running Windows 7 Home Premium. I couldn't find any 64-bit XP drivers for my sound card or GPU, and I didn't want to limit my machine's performance by going with the normal 32-bit version of XP. Not to say that the 32-bit version of XP is bad, as I still run it in a Virtualbox VM for apps with compatibility problems, but there's no point on installing it on a machine with more than 2GB of RAM, and my laptop has 6GB.

I've also used various distros of Linux, two of my favorites being Crunchbang and Linux Mint. Linux is a great OS for day-to-day tasks like writing documents and surfing the web, but the one thing that keeps me from switching to it full time is the fact that it's absolutely terrible for gaming. If you're lucky enough to have a supported graphics card, you can get certain games running through Wine or the native port of Steam, but it's not really worth it since Windows still delivers better gaming performance, and much much better compatibility.

I have Ubuntu 13.10 and backtrack 5 (though I may replace BT5 with kali linux soon)

Looks like we have a few other BT5 users here, but that's to be expected on a site for people with aspergers. We can't make friends IRL so we make our homes online. Inevitably, something comes along and threatens our virtual sanctuary so we learn to deffend it because while some people think it's just some shady website, to us it's home, it's where we go as soon as we get back from school or work to visit with the people we care about... or maybe that's just me...

On my main PC:
- Windows 7 Black Edition, 64-bit
- Fedora 20 "Heisenbug"

On my secondary/admin PC:
- Windows XP 64-bit