- 1993-1998 SunOS and later Solaris on Sun servers
- Used at University
- 1995-1996 Attempted to configure an x86 PC to be a Linux server
- Slackware install using 40+ floppy disks
- Miserable experience that resulted in total failure
- 1998-2002 PowerPC Apple iMac
- Started with MacOS 8 but disliked it
- Switched to Yellow Dog Linux, but didn’t understand RPM packages
- Switched to MacOS X beta and liked it
- 2002-2020 Cygwin running on top of Windows
- Gave me a Bash shell for scripting my Xilinx builds
- Later used scripting for synchronizing all my computers
- Eventually switched from Cygwin to WSL
- 2002-2020 Occasional use of Linux on a x86 PC
- Debian attempted a few times but met with failure
- Ubuntu was the only distro that installed successfully
- Mostly using Windows
- Ocasionally testing OpenBSD
- 2010-2020 Occasional use of Linux on older laptops
- Ubuntu is the only distro I used consistently
- Other distros I tried are Mint and Fedora
- Successfully used Yocto Project to build Linux for Freescale iMX6
- 2015-2024 MacBook Pro and MacOS X
- Extremely good computer
- Homebrew package manager
- MacOS X is excellent, it is basically BSD with a nice GUI
- 2020 Heavy use of Linux
- Purchased a laptop to use with Linux only
- Linux quickly becomes my primary OS on personal and work computers
- Started with Ubuntu 18.04, upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, but ended up distro-hopping after 21.04 due to Gnome
- Distro hopping a lot, mostly with VMs, but sometimes to real hardware
- Purchased an Intel NUC specifically to test Linux distros and my install scripts
- Switched from Ubuntu to Kubuntu to Mint before settling on Siduction (Debian)