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Ask HN: Why do you use your OS?

• angersock 12y ago
  Because manually triggering interrupts to change state in RAM and kick off DMA to drives and bus devices (like network cards) is tedious and slow. What are you trying to get at?
  • walshemj 12y ago
    and toggling in programs from the front panel is tedious :-) (had to do that on a PDP once)
• staunch 12y ago
  I tried not to use it but the darn computer won't operate itself!
• benologist 12y ago
  I use OS X, I think they got a lot of stuff right like key combinations are nice and feel more "first class" than Windows esp. with software like spotlight or alfred. It's not a very good experience overall, lots of stupid stuff like Finder, buggy updates, buggy software (not always apple's fault).
• deleted 12y ago
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• lazylizard 12y ago
  at home, direct x. at work, vsphere client , excel, visio and occasionally, i run yosemite in virtualbox to run application loader to upload an ipa file.. otherwise most of everything else is rhel or centos. doesnt matter at this point which os.