What OS do you guys run around here?

What OS do you run most of the time

  • Windows 2000 (or older)

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • Windows XP

    Votes: 67 62.0%

  • Windows Vista

    Votes: 26 24.1%

  • Debian Based Distro

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • Red Hat Based Distro

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Slackware Based Distro

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • Solaris

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Mac OSX

    Votes: 5 4.6%

  • FreeBSD

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Linux/GNU source

    Votes: 2 1.9%
  • Total voters
    108
Jack Bauer said:
Vista Home Premium on my desktop, XP Pro on my laptop.
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How's Vista working out for you now on your desktop? Here besides a few initial problems with sound drivers and getting familiar with the changes the same version is generally running as stable as any other version of Windows. Once the improved versions of drivers by 3rd parties starting coming out it should stay running that way.
 
PC eye said:
How's Vista working out for you now on your desktop? Here besides a few initial problems with sound drivers and getting familiar with the changes the same version is generally running as stable as any other version of Windows. Once the improved versions of drivers by 3rd parties starting coming out it should stay running that way.
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Vistas working pretty good. I have not seen many problems at all and I think it is running pretty good. The only problem I had was trying to get my wireless adapter to work and I got that sorted out.
 
Jack Bauer said:
Vistas working pretty good. I have not seen many problems at all and I think it is running pretty good. The only problem I had was trying to get my wireless adapter to work and I got that sorted out.
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At least you were able to get online with Vista without a headache. That sounds all too familiar when trying to get online with Firefox on Linux distros were there is no drivers for the dsl connection here. The drawback being seen now however is the lack of being able to send pages or links with IE 7 in Vista since that is greyed out while IE 7 on XP has no problems that way?
 
need to be able to vote multiple times for those of us with more then one pc/os :P

i have vista on my gaming pc.
win2k on my game server pc.
winxp on my pc out in the other room for the rest of the family to use.
 
i don't know what am using. im loosing my mind !!!..
just kidding, a few 2000's and XP's..

and oh my lovely precious suse10.1 (<--did i say i was gonna stop using suse)
i wish 2000 had more votes than vista
 
Not quite! XP is still way ahead in the polls! Gee? Vista has been doing better then Linux however? :eek: "better then Linux?" :P
 
Linux is still based on the old UNIX platform despite improvements for increased cross platform support being that it is an open source or better phrased open ended type OS where new things are being sumitted. MS finally got smart with the drive tools know seen when booting with the installation disk or the ability to reduce or increase partition sizes in the Disk Management tool. That will sting Partition Magic and other retail softwares while GParted is now offering less cross platform support with their latest releases.
 
elitehacker said:
Linux has failed dismally as an alternative OS. People want their computers to just "work".
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You mean like Windows just works? ;) I don't think this forum would be half as busy if it wasn't for Windows lol

Admittedly, depending on your hardware / software requirements, Linux may take a little bit of setting up, but once it is setup you shouldn't be seeing any problems. It's all about stability and security.
 
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Well windows is more user-friendly and that is what the consumer wants. They don't want to use command prompts and commands to install programs.
 
elitehacker said:
Well windows is more user-friendly and that is what the consumer wants. They don't want to use command prompts and commands to install programs.
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you're right. I've been teaching some of my friends linux and they don't like it using the terminal. They don't want the "./make" , the "./configure"..lol
they just want to be able to double clikc the software...see the progression of installation and its completion.They do like linux however, mostly ubuntu, while some opted Mepis, but they won't ever use it as their primary OS..
 
What you seem to forget is that Linux is based on the antiquated UNIX platform when it comes to manual commands. The average user can or could move around and install programs with dos commands far easier. In those days you simply typed: "C:>A:" or "C:>B:" and pressed the enter/return key to reach the floppy dirve's prompt. There you typed "setup", "setup.exe", "install", or "install.exe" and pressed the enter/return key to start the installer there. The next prompt seen would be "insert disk #2" or "insert the next floppy". To save time many simply copied everything into a folder on the drive to install or reinstall from there.

Windows following Apple offered the Run command line prompt as the first method of using a desktop gui. That was before the eventual double click days later to be seen in 95 and NT.
 
I'm actually considering running Ubuntu on my laptop, but I'll probably have a dual boot with XP Home as well... But otherwise, my typical OS of choice is still XP.
 
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