What OS do you use?

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I use Linux specifically Ubuntu which gets the job done for me. I find it is the best Linux distribution.

What OS do you use?

I'm on Manjaro Linux (testing branch) with Gnome desktop. Can't go without Pacman and MHWD.

This one,(desktop system) has the current Debian Jessie with MATE. XFCE, Desktops, and the OpenBox WM on it. -- I've been running for a few months before Jessie became the current Stable Edition of Debian

My Toughbook is still running the now sadly missed CrunchBang spin of Debian Wheezy on it with an upgraded 3.16 Kernel. It's also running a hakced version of the current Debian Stable in Virtualbox. -- I'm debating on whether I should rust install current stable with MATE DE on the drive outright.

I use OpenBSD for servers and Linux for workstations.

I doubt that anyone here has ever seen DOS. Plenty have seen MS-DOS and other microcomputer disk operating systems, but unless they worked for the right company at the right time in the right capacity in the 1960s or maybe early 1970s, it is doubtful that they ever saw DOS.

I have to use windows 7, the music software that I run only works with 7-- not even 8.1 and certainly not any linux distro. That being said I've used Debian in the past and it was good, if you really like fiddling with stuff.

The 60's and the '70's was pretty much the 'wild west' era of computingdue to the fact that until the advent of Bell Labs UNIX, every computer was pretty much a proprietary system. UNIX finally provided a standardised OS platform. -- Still though there was a lot of wierd stuff running on hardware into the 80's, and a lot of Zero Tolerance, mission critical equipment has proprietary software written in Assembly code controlling it. Sattelites, space exploration. and some military hardware comes to mind.

That being said, I remember QDOS systems in the 80's and 90's.

Out of curiousity, what music software are you running?

It's actually not the software, it's the hardware to run the software. I have an old soundblaster audigy 2 zs platinum circa 2004. I don't record, I only use vst instruments so I need the asio drivers for low latency and I don't see the need to drop $400+ for an entire mixing solution when all I need are the asio drivers. That being said I'm not young anymore so I don't really enjoy fiddling with stuff anymore, lol. I'd rather just use the package that just works and troubleshoot if I run into problems. I don't see that happening with a Linux distro. Granted Bill Gates is the devil, but I'll deal with the devil for simple convenience nowadays.

Here is some info about the DOS operating sytem. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/360_and_successors:

The weirdest OS I ever wrote software for was a Data General Supernova.

The program was on punch cards. I would load the punch cards onto a Data General Nova to compile the program and produce an executable on a paper tape. I would then take the paper tape over to the Supernova, start it up, enter the program to read the paper tape with toggle switches, and load the paper tape. Once the paper tape was loaded, it would then execute.

What I thought was the oddest thing about the Nova family of minicomputers was the autoincrement and autodecrement memory locations. There were something like 8 or 16 of each in a specific area of low memory. You would write a value into the location and then every time you accessed the value at that location it would automagically decrement or increment the memory depending on its address.

In general, though, I liked the PDP-11 and VAX computers best for doing assembly language.

I'm currently using OS X Yosemite on my Apple Macbook laptop.

I was a Linux evangelist for a while, but to be honest, I've gotten sick of using it, so nowadays I mainly use Windows 7. Ironic, as I used to hate Windows 7, but now that I've figured out how to customize it to my liking, I'd say it's one of the best operating systems Microsoft's ever made, up there with Windows 2000 and MS DOS 6.22.

I might get back into Linux again if I get bored, but for now, Win7 just works. I've also been curious about giving some flavor of BSD a try, though I've heard there aren't any good AMD graphics drivers for it. I'm also thinking of giving Gentoo another try, though you really need to have another Linux distro already set up to install it. As it is, I'm planning on wiping my hard drive and starting fresh, as I don't like Xubuntu 15.04, and Win7 has been having some minor, but annoying issues ever since I switched motherboards.

I am currently running Windows Vista Home Premium on my Lenovo 3000 series desktop. Contrary to popular belief, Vista has been very reliable and I have had almost no major problems in my time of using it. My Lenovo Thinkpad R61i laptop is running Windows XP Pro, but I don't use my laptop as much as my desktop. I will also sometimes on occasion tinker with old Windows OS's and Linux OS's on my old desktops and laptop.

Windows 7 Home Premium

My main computer is running Windows 7, though I intend to install Manjaro Linux on it ( way better for programming and just about everything else )

I also have an older laptop that's running Manjaro Linux which I use for programming. I want to install Manjaro on the main computer because it's newer and has better performance so I can use it for more intensive graphics / game programming.

Vista and 7 are almost the same thing, the only reason Vista got such a bad rep is because they released it too soon and OEMs shipped it on horrendously underpowered machines. Vista/7 really need at least 4GB of ram and a good dual core CPU (like a Core2 Duo; NOT an early one like a Pentium D or Athlon 64x2) to shine.

Also, I just wiped the OS drive on my desktop, so right now I only have 7 installed. I did it to resolve some issues with slow bootups, allocate more space for Windows 7, and because I was too lazy to go through the process of overwriting GRUB with the Windows bootloader. Truth be told, I kind of regret it now, since there are tons of settings I have to go back to and change again. Reinstalling wasn't as big a deal with XP, since Nlite could preconfigure all my tweaks for me, but for some reason, NTLite isn't as good for that with 7.

My experience is similar. I mostly use Windows 7. Initially I disliked it, because of the changes from XP that weren't improvements. But I've discovered some changes that are improvements, and learned how to take advantage of them. I also use Classic Shell (which is free), which makes the Start Menu useful, and Everything (also free), which is a good file-search utility (Windows used to have one, but no longer ).

I'm learning Linux, since it's better for some things, it's free, and it's more customizable. I use Antergos, which is a variant of Arch, with the default Cinammon UI. Antergos is easy to install, and I prefer Cinammon to the other Linux UI's that I've tried. Arch is lean and easy to customize.

I learned about Antergos on WP!