Which OS are you using now?

[Discord]

So which OS do you use most of the time for private purposes (EoFF posting), alternatively which OS do you prefer to use?

[escobert]

Windows XP 64 bit edition :p

[ZeZipster]

Why is there no DOS? :confused:

[Discord]

Windows XP 64 bit edition :p

That goes under WinXP! *gets the cricket bat out*

[Freya]

My other comp broke so right now i'm on our old one that has 98.

[Tempest]

Vista. Yay. :|

[Odaisé Gaelach]

Windows XP all the way, baby! :love:

[bipper]

I am on a slackware box, but I run an emulation of windowsXP out of VMware. I am entirely at a loss as to what I should vote!

[Jebus]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Jebusabsolute/KN2XB7XBSBS57OXELA4QVP2LE3RODTOE.jpg

Why say anything when an image could say far more than I ever could?

[Meat Puppet]

windows 2000

[rubah]

Your choices were despicable. I improved them slightly.

Right now I am using mac os 10.4.9 "Tiger".

[Xaven]

Why put 2000 with XP? Most of the people who use a Windows version previous to XP use 2000. :P But whatever.

Windows XP. I keep my computer clean as a whistle. A very clean whistle, mind you.

[Owen Macwere]

My old computer had Melinum 98 It wasn't bad. My current desktop has XP pro. it's the best. My laptop has Vista which suck. :/

[Sergeant Hartman]

Put your hands up for Windows XP.

[demondude]

Put your hands up for Windows XP.

[Little Blue]

Put your hands up for Windows XP.

[Sergeant Hartman]

Put your hands up for Windows XP.
Don't forget to wave 'em like ya just don't care.

[Cloud_omnislash_Strife]

Windows XP

Ive had this computer for years...

[Mirage]

32bit Vista. 64bit is only useful for getting annoyed by poor driver support for now. Had I known that by the time I bought my AMD64, I would have gotten a dual core CPU instead. :(

[starseeker]

Windows XP, although I may end up with Vista sometime in the next few months.

[sephirothishere]

OS: Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2 (5.1 - 2600)

Installed: Thu Apr 05 10:57:43 2007 (9wks 3days 1hr 19mins 18secs ago)

Yup... I HAVE TO REBOOT LIKE EVERY WEEK! But it's a nifty laptop so I turn it off when I am taking it for a walk.

I like how it runs, I have it made to look like vista though.so ho humm. It runs fast ;d

[Mirage]

My windows boxes stay up for months, unless there are hardware errors. (which I suspect my vista box has, Linux was unstable on it too.)

[scrumpleberry]

Windows XP.

I like it, and I don't really want to change it.

[Odaisé Gaelach]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Jebusabsolute/KN2XB7XBSBS57OXELA4QVP2LE3RODTOE.jpg

Why say anything when an image could say far more than I ever could?

Correction - both Linux and Mac OS X are built on Unix.

[Mirage]

Another correction - Linux needs quite a few restarts too.

A third correction - If you're going to make one poll option for all Linux distros and kernel versions, there should just be one Windows option too, maybe two if you want to separate the NT based windowses from the earlier crap.

-edit-
JUST WORDFILTER THE SHI-WORD TO CRAP AND BE DONE WITH IT.

And where's my Windows NT 4.0? :(

[blackmage_nuke]

I use XP because it looks like someone with their eyes closed sticking their tounge out at you XP

[Polaris]

Windows 2000 :( I suck I know:(

[Jess]

I have Windows XP. The only reason I like Vista is because it looks prettier. :jess:

[Peegee]

Vista sucks. You can install it on my pc after you pry it off my cold cold dead corpse :)

I use windows xp. I'd use linux except why?

[Quindiana Jones]

Unfortunately I'm using Windows XP. I'd much rather be using Linux Ubuntu.

[Mirage]

Vista sucks. You can install it on my pc after you pry it off my cold cold dead corpse :)

I use windows xp. I'd use linux except why?

What makes it suck? Must be something I've yet to notice.

[Sefie1999AD]

I use Windows XP, though I also have Windows 2000 installed on this computer.

[Maxico]

Shocking poll reveals that the most used "Operating System" or "OS" is Windows, followed by Mac and Linux!

News at eleven.

[Slothy]

Currently XP on my desktop. For my laptop that is coming soon I plan on dual booting XP and some version of Linux.

[Discord]

Your choices were despicable. I improved them slightly.

Right now I am using mac os 10.4.9 "Tiger".

Noooooooooooooo! Now I have all those Apple products in -MY- pole! Life is a cruel thing.


Why put 2000 with XP? Most of the people who use a Windows version previous to XP use 2000. :P But whatever.

Windows XP. I keep my computer clean as a whistle. A very clean whistle, mind you.

Because 2000 and XP have very similar architectures (NT), while 95/98/ME were more or less based on DOS... Vista is kind of weird, so it got a separate bar (apart from being weird I wanted to know how many people actually use it).



A third correction - If you're going to make one poll option for all Linux distros and kernel versions, there should just be one Windows option too, maybe two if you want to separate the NT based windowses from the earlier crap.

I could, but with an immense number of EoFFers using Linux, it wouldn't make too much sense.

[Denmark]

The answer to both of those questions, for me at least, is Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

[escobert]

Also, my Mac runs 8.6 (since 8.6 is the leetness of mac) so it would also fit into OS 9 or earlier ("Classic")

[Nominus Experse]

I run Windows XP at the moment. I will likely upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate when I feel it's safe.

Linux interests me, but seeing as it's basically a mirror of other OSs with only a few differences, I see no real reason to switch - at the moment.

[Kyri]

Windows XP Media Center, and I much rather keep this than get Vista.

[bipper]

Another correction - Linux needs quite a few restarts too.



Yeah cause the OS Frags Ram, misuses resources, and eats away at it's own file allocation table. Sounds like window I once had, then those kids broke it with a baseball. I have never been happier.

[Quindiana Jones]

My Linux never had any problems and didn't need any restarts. :D

Linux install time: A few hours tops.
Windows install time: A weekend. :mad2:

[Discord]

My Linux never had any problems and didn't need any restarts. :D

Linux install time: A few hours tops.
Windows install time: A weekend. :mad2:

Why on earth would you need a weekend to reinstall Windows? (unless you include the installation times of all the 3rd party apps that you "need", which isn't a problem with Linux due to their absence)

[bipper]

My Linux never had any problems and didn't need any restarts. :D

Linux install time: A few hours tops.
Windows install time: A weekend. :mad2:

Why on earth would you need a weekend to reinstall Windows? (unless you include the installation times of all the 3rd party apps that you "need", which isn't a problem with Linux due to their absence)

OSalt.com There is plenty of software available for Linux, should you ever need anything. A lot of it can require more skill to run, but it's fine by those who can use Linux to it's fullest. In fact, it is an industry observation that more of the accepted technologies are leaning more towards 3rd party standard com pliancy, which leaves little room for Microsoft's tendancies (of olde (I hope)) Let's see if Ozzy can turn around the behemoth and get MS on track to being a respectable corp. Doubt it though.

Meh, they are both alright, vista is stepping in a somewhat positive direction (become more complimentary to window's strategy, vs. trying to 'spray, pray, and fillet the market. Most clients and offices I work with still tend to be driven towards the Linux incentives vs that of Windows.

[Lynx]

i have a partioned hard drive so i can use linux or windows xp. so far i mostly use xp because linux confuses me seeing as im not very good with computers.

[Miriel]

I have a partitioned hard drive with OS X on one side for all my photography/design/photoshop needs and Windows XP for all my gaming needs.

[sirlaguna]

I'm using Windows 2000 here

[o_O]

Currently I'm using Gentoo Linux.

I quad-boot Gentoo, Arch, Vista and XP on this machine though. Gentoo is easily my most used OS, followed by Arch, XP and then Vista.

There should be a poll option for each distro. :p

[Rostum]

Windows XP. In my 3 or so years of using it I've only ever had one problem -- and that was to do with a corrupt HDD (though not sure what caused it).

I know people say OSX is meant to be really good and everything, but I also have it on a Mac, and I just find it a lot harder to organize files and navigate there. I'm just so used to the Windows layout -- I know where everything is, how to keep everything clean and organized, etc.

Never tried Linux out. Though when I was working as a graphic designer for this programming team, they all were using Linux and it looked too complicated (like typing out command lines to open things). That and their open source programs were becoming a problem overall with everything (compatibility issues mainly).

Just a personal preference though. :)

[Discord]

Well, you have to admit, MACs are for wusses! (sorry rubah. friends?:p)

[Renmiri]

Vista Aero AKA "Much ado about nothing" :mad:

[escobert]

Well, you have to admit, MACs are for wusses! (sorry rubah. friends?:p)

The new mac systems yes, the old mac systems 8.6 and older are kick ass and VERY stable. My Imac that runs 8.6 has NEVER been reformated ever, been beat to all hell and still runs. It has trouble starting up (the scandisk is broken) but other than that and that it doesn't like reading CDs sometimes it's fine. not very fast and very outdated now (hard to get much but diablo 2 and games to work on it, heck it only goes up to IE 5 or something xD)

[Mirage]

My Linux never had any problems and didn't need any restarts. :D

Linux install time: A few hours tops.
Windows install time: A weekend. :mad2:

My Ubuntu 7.04 wanted restarts each time I installed new OS updates, meaning about as many restarts as my WinNT based systems want!

And I have no idea how you go about installing Windows if you need an entire weekend.

[Odaisé Gaelach]

My Linux never had any problems and didn't need any restarts. :D

Linux install time: A few hours tops.
Windows install time: A weekend. :mad2:

I had to struggle with GRUB when I wanted to install Linux - it didn't like my RAID array. Finally, when I did get GRUB to work, it somehow destroyed itself a few days later. Don't really know how.

Linux install time: Constant, repeatedly fixing that bloody bootloader.
Windows install time: An hour, including RAID drivers.

[o_O]

My Ubuntu 7.04 wanted restarts each time I installed new OS updates, meaning about as many restarts as my WinNT based systems want!

And I have no idea how you go about installing Windows if you need an entire weekend.

Yeah, but that's Ubuntu. It's "Windows but Linux". :p

The only time it's actually necessary to reboot is when the kernel is changed. And even then, you only have to reboot when you want to use it; usually the current kernel is fine to use for as long as you want.

[~*~Celes~*~]

Windows XP ftw

[Mr.SimpleandClean]

"Windows Vista" such liars

[Suiko Jin]

OS X for me. I love it.

[Mirage]

"Windows Vista" such liars
What do you mean by that?

[Pike]

I use Linux~ and I haven't used Windows in about six months now XD So yeah...!

And I really dislike fanboys of either side of the Linux spectrum... both the "OMG LINUX IS PERFECT!!111" people and the "OMG LINUX SUCKS!!!1" people. All OS's have their strengths and weaknesses and you should use what works for you and makes you feel comfortable. I really enjoy using Linux, I find it to be very customizable and more intuitive than Windows, and the games that I play work on it, so I use it ^_^ But if you like something else better, then that's fine too~