Operating System Poll

[elgarak]

Since I recently switched to a Mac, I thought it interesting to find how many people are using which OS.

What's yours?

 

[Fallingwater]

The poll needs a multi-vote option.
I have Windows XP and Linux on double boot.

 

[jtr1962]

The poll needs a multi-vote option.
I have Windows XP and Linux on double boot.

Agreed. I'm running XP on my primary machine and '98 on my other one. I've even got computers with DOS 5.0 and Win3.1, but since I never use them any more I don't think they count.

 

[PhantomPhoton]

Voted other. I use all 3. Unfortunately winblows gets most of my time, though I Prefer using Linux. I multiboot and so have OSX installed. But I rarely need the Mac suite of powerful programs so it sees far less use; maybe twice a month.

 

[elgarak]

Frag, must've have had brain freeze; totally forgot about dual- and multiple boot systems and multiple comps.

So let's re-formulate: What's your primary OS? The one you do most of the work under?

 

[Fallingwater]

Agreed. I'm running XP on my primary machine and '98 on my other one. I've even got computers with DOS 5.0 and Win3.1, but since I never use them any more I don't think they count.

Heh, I forgot about Win98. My old Athlon has that exclusively, as my old-games box. Everything that doesn't work right on XP (I'm looking at you, Mechwarrior 2) gets played on that one.

 

[greenstuffs]

Vista reminds me the Windows ME fiasco lol people with vista are not by choice but because now all new computers come with vista preloaded.

 

[Kilovolt]

... people with vista are not by choice but because now all new computers come with vista preloaded.

Yes it was a sad surprise finding myself with Vista after buying a new notebook. I was hoping for an improved OS....

 

[LEDninja]

Mac OSX - new iMac

Mac OS 9.2.2 - 300MHz G3 - surfing CPF
Mac OS 8.6 - 300MHz G3 - everything else (none of my old hardware/software works on OS9)

Mac OS 6.0.7 Mac LC(III) & Classic

 

[The_LED_Museum]

The poll needed multi-options; two of my computers use Windows XP and the other two use Windows 98.

 

[MikeLip]

My home machine is XP, the spanking new machine at work is Vista. Vista makes XP *look* dated, but I'm not sure yet that I like it.

 

[h_nu]

I have a multi-boot menu with XP and Debian but I don't go on the Internet in Windows anymore. Maybe the anti-virus, firewall, and other Windows utilities is too much load for my PC. Linux seems faster.

 

[PhotonBoy]

My PC is about 2.5 years old. If I can't get a new PC with XP, I'll switch to Linux, probably Ubuntu. I'm planning on buying an Ubuntu learner machine to complement my current XP box. Macs are too expensive and I simply don't respect nor trust Steve Jobs.

 

[electromage]

I've been using linux for about 6 years, starting with Red Hat, and trying out Mandrake, Suse, Gentoo, and Debian along the way. I mostly tinkered with it until Ubuntu came out. I put it on my laptop and one of my extra machines and was so impressed that I finally decided that I was in a good position to drop Windows completely. I've been using Ubuntu as my primary OS for three years now. I still have a few servers running Debian, and my router running Red Hat, but I'm planning on standardizing everything on Ubuntu very soon. I've seen quite a lot of progress in open-source software in the past few years, and I am happy to see it compete with what Microsoft and others have spent billions of dollars developing.

I also like to help people use and make the most of Linux, so if anyone is interested in trying it out, or switching, I'd be happy to help.

 

[JimmyM]

Currently I use mostly XP, but in a week or so I'm switching to Vista-64. My new laptop will have 4GB ram, so I need a 64bit OS to propely utilize all the ram. I'm more than a little hesitant to go with Vista. I might dual boot with XP for a while.

 

[Marduke]

Currently I use mostly XP, but in a week or so I'm switching to Vista-64. My new laptop will have 4GB ram, so I need a 64bit OS to propely utilize all the ram. I'm more than a little hesitant to go with Vista. I might dual boot with XP for a while.

You might want to look into XP-Pro x64 edition. I dual boot that on a Mac Pro at work.

 

[JimmyM]

You might want to look into XP-Pro x64 edition. I dual boot that on a Mac Pro at work.

I was looking into that, but driver support is atrocious. So it's either Windows Server 2003-64 or Vista-64. I'll try both to see what works.

 

[meuge]

Since I recently switched to a Mac, I thought it interesting to find how many people are using which OS.

What's yours?

I am very impressed that Linux is at 8%. I would say that 2-3 years ago, I'd be amazed if ANYONE would be using it as their primary desktop OS, other than a few-and-far-between diehards.

It's getting up there with MacOS!

 

[electromage]

Currently I use mostly XP, but in a week or so I'm switching to Vista-64. My new laptop will have 4GB ram, so I need a 64bit OS to propely utilize all the ram. I'm more than a little hesitant to go with Vista. I might dual boot with XP for a while.

I'm running Ubuntu 64-bit with 4GB of RAM

 

[LaserFreak]

Agreed. I'm running XP on my primary machine and '98 on my other one. I've even got computers with DOS 5.0 and Win3.1, but since I never use them any more I don't think they count.

OMG...DOS 5.0. Ah the good old days...the days where nobody knew what the "Blue screen of death" was. I learned how to use a REAL computer (I'm comparing Apple IIe's with 8086 and 286 systems) back when 286's were top of the line. Honking huge 50 MB SCSI drives.....the list goes on.