[COLOR=“Blue”]1[/COLOR]) An old [COLOR=“blue”]Windows XP[/COLOR] computer
(Even though Microsoft no longer supports XP…I still use it for basic functions. I use PANDA CLOUD for it’s virus protection.
[COLOR=“blue”]2[/COLOR]) My 2nd PC has [COLOR=“blue”]Windows Vista[/COLOR] in it.
I often use it to go online. I also use it to test programs for viruses…before I put them on my main PC. It has AVG FREE for virus protection.
[COLOR=“blue”]3[/COLOR]) My main PC has [COLOR=“blue”]Windows 7[/COLOR] in it. This PC is reserved for my most important files. I have Microsoft Security Essentials in it for virus protection.
This is my only PC that can properly handle HTML 5 games (through Google Chrome).
Note:In all 3 PCs I have Advanced System Care that helps optimize and check for malware.
I like Windows XP. It’s a shame Microsoft abandoned it. The school where I work, most of the PCs use Windows XP. Our tech specialist said he wants to basically trash all the XP machines and upgrade because of security reasons.
Mainly to test the compatibility of games I’ve made. Vista is fine for doing simple tasks like surfing the web.
A lot of free games on the internet work well with XP.
I have 5 laptops (all from a company that just changed PC policy, okay specced, all running a version of Linux and Load balancer, thus all 5 combined can make an quite okay server)
One old AF lappy, my first laptop running ubuntu 10.04 atm.
One Asus 10" lappy, ran Window 7 Home Basic, but is now running Mint Cinnamon.
One Fujitsu 13" lappy, quite powerful I have to say, running XUbuntu 14.04, it was running W7 earlier.
And my desktop running Windows 7 home professional, it works as a terminal client towards all of my Linux laptops and as my main computer. It is the most powerful of 'em, running 2x256GB SSDs in RAID0, an I7 processor and a ASUS GeForce GTX Titan Z.
I use the desktop for most everything, but little to no gaming
My main computer is a Compaq desktop I bought in 2007 or 2008 running Windows 7 x64. AT one point I was dual booting with Fedora 14, but I rarely logged in to that half, so eventually I just made it pure Windows after the hard drive crashed irreversibly.
My laptop is a hand-me-down Dell Latitude (only way I’d ever own a Dell) and it’s running Ubuntu. Apparently the previous owner wasn’t impressed with Dell’s ability to be fixed either.
Within the next few years, I’m going to build a computer to replace my current one.
As for free programs, I have plenty I like. AVG for anti-virus, OpenOffice or LibreOffice and they’re menus so I don’t have to deal with Microsoft Office’s pretty little buttons, GNU Cash for my bookkeeping, Notepad++ for my coding, and FileZilla for FTPing. The other favorites are more art based, like SmoothDraw.
I do have an 120gb SSD though, so it runs nicely after a few years.
Celeron D 3.06Ghz and 2G ram :((