21 engineers on Hacker News describe using Unix first-hand: 6 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Overall, the things I did do would've been better on Unix, and I would've gotten plugged into that scene earlier.”
endorse · personal · neilv · 2023-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unix has all the same problems just to a lesser degree.”
regret · production · Ericson2314 · 2021-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in this enlightened era, we run Unix and recognize the importance of the CLI.”
endorse · production · qwertyuiop924 · 2016-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then we moved to UNIX and were glad we did when DEC was starting to tank.”
endorse · production · epalmer · 2016-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would kill to have a modern-day equivalent of the native UNIX desktop I had on a 4/110”
endorse · production · 1 yr · technofiend · 2016-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“which is the main bugbear that I have with Unix”
regret · production · w_t_payne · 2012-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have been using text-based logs and text-based pipes on unix for decades, even though it has always been inefficient to parse”
endorse · production · 20 yr · CrLf · 2011-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't hate Ubuntu. Or Unix. Or Linux. I've been using them in various iterations for fifteen years.”
endorse · personal · 15 yr · baughj · 2011-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unix is old clunky and hard to configure... I have been using it since the early 90's because there is no alternative with traction.”
mixed · personal · 18 yr · nwmcsween · 2010-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Unix systems for 30 years and never noticed this.”
neutral · personal · 30 yr · jasomill · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we moved to Unix machines later in the course we'd really appreciate them!”
neutral · personal · arethuza · 2025-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it wasn't a case of not knowing Linux (using Unix before Linux existed).”
neutral · production · robomartin · 2024-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“had been using Xenix and honest to god AT&T UNIX in my previous job”
neutral · production · dajt · 2023-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using unix and linux for about a quarter of a century.”
neutral · personal · 25 yr · InclinedPlane · 2018-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only OS options we use these days are flavors of UNIX”
neutral · production · rbanffy · 2018-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Unix on and off for 20 years, and I've done a bunch of Unix development work here and there”
neutral · production · 20 yr · to3m · 2016-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“so that we can execute 35 year-old COBOL code on UNIX hardware and a SQL database.”
neutral · production · kyllo · 2015-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using, studying, and working with *nix systems basically forever”
neutral · production · saidajigumi · 2015-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“became a Unix admin in the mid-90s, managed the configuration management system and base configuration of a site”
neutral · production · 15 yr · lamontcg · 2015-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Although I haven't had anything like that happen in my 26 years of running unix boxes”
neutral · production · 26 yr · felixgallo · 2014-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“using a cross compiler on unix”
neutral · production · eckyptang · 2012-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?