Operating System Poll

[pokerfan]

Poll question: Operating System Poll

What are you using right now?

[arcadian]

1. Other: What's an operating system?

:rofl:

[qnr]

2. Primarily Linux, but other was most appropriate. Although, I suppose

it would depend upon the interpretation of 'using' and 'right now'. I'm typing this in Linux, but I'm doing some coding on an Oberon machine and I have an Atari 8-bit running a game too.

[HopeHoops]

3. How about multiple ones?

Mac OSX, OS9
Win Vista, XP, 98SE, 2000 Pro
Linux (although that box is not deployed right now).

[pokerfan]

5. what are you using right now, i.e. on what OS are you reading this?

For multiple boot machines, what are you booted into right now?

[HopeHoops]

6. Oh, right NOW - actually, I'm typing on a Vista laptop but checking news on a Mac Mini (OS X).

I've also got work sitting on the Mac OS 9 laptop which I'm reluctantly going to have to return to after this post.

[DS1]

4. I'm really enjoying Windows7

And don't mind that I've essentially committed myself to buying the Ultimate version upon release.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Windows 7 has impressed me thoroughly.

[Strong Atheist]

7. Windows 98 was the most stable of the Windows... nt.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. XP with the NTFS file system was way more stable.

[DS1]

10. When XP came out I'd have Quake3, 3DS Max, Photoshop and winamp all running

This was unheard of with 98. That much graphics power required was an instead BSOD

[DarkTirade]

12. 98 was crap. 98 SE(special edition), however, was the most stable until XP SP2. :)

BIIIIG difference between 98 and 98 SE. 98 was, like Vista, released before they'd ironed the bugs out. So the second release, 98 SE, was with most of the bugs fixed. :)

I had a system running 98 SE until the hardware on that system died.

[no name no slogan]

13. Screw that. Windows ME was da BOMB

:hide:

[DarkTirade]

14. ...

:spray:

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

15. No, Microsoft BOB was da bomb!

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

16. I've missed all the fun releases

My (home) Windows timeline: 3.11 => 98 => XP. No Bob or Me.

[backscatter712]

11. Linux Mint!!!

http://www.linuxmint.com/

[pokerfan]

17. So many distros, so little time

It looks like what I've done to ubuntu. I got rid of one of the panels, keeping just the bottom one. Collapsed the three menus (aps, places, system) into the 'main menu.' I know Mint is more than just a theme but I do appreciate a clean desktop:

[qnr]

18. Every time I see Linux Mint, I think of Atari MiNT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT
http://sparemint.org/sparemint/

[tabbycat31]

19. other

2 computers.
My desktop is XP
My laptop is Vista

i have no issues with vista

[Q3JR4]

20. XP, but not by choice.

I don't own this laptop so can't install linux.

Q3JR4.

[Pierre.Suave]

21. Max OSX 10.5 Leopard...

and the iPhone OSX as well.