What OS are you on?

Home I have XP, At the Office XP, OSX, Linux just for cross-tests...

I use Ubuntu Breezy Linux at home, Mac OS X Tiger at Uni and Windows XP at work

Mac OS 10.3.9 at home. If I had a job, I am certain it would not be sitting in front of a computer (though I can dream)

Nope, Its in pursuit of learning too!

Oh great so it's not going to a waste, what a relief.

Just don't do what I did when I went cold turkey on to Linux and that was to keep (wanting to) go back to windows.

Keep at it and you'll learn to get used to it

I run XP pro, although I like exploring linux ... they're pretty different

I have XP Pro, OS X and Suse 9.3 (Linux). All on seperate computers at the house.

At my day job, I have XP Pro, then several servers with Red Hat (Linux).

Renegade wrote: Keep at it and you'll learn to get used to it

Agreed. They're definately different. Another common mistake is to compare the two, expecting Linux to have all the same features as Windows.

This is a good article: http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
Linux is not Windows.

Back on-topic: I (am forced to) use Windows 2000 at work and (voluntarily) use SuSE at home. Although I'd quite like to test out some other distros (especially Gentoo, compiling your own kernel certainly looks like it could speed stuff up).

On a seperate note, I also use Cygwin at work. It's nowhere near a full Linux distro, but having had a taste of the power of Linux, I can't get by on Windoze alone.

Cool Linux != Windows article, Jeeves. Thanks for the link!

I have Win XP at home and work, but I'm also trying Ubuntu linux

XP MCE on my desktop (MythTV just wasn't cutting it), Suse 10 on my dev machine/file server and Debian Sarge on my hosted server.

have been using XP for a looong time now.. will upgrade to vista once they release a service pack for it

I am using at home and at work mac os x 10.3.9, windows 2000 and of course which i like most suse 9.3 , what i like most is mac os x and linux.

Now I have Linux, OSX and Win XP all on the same box.

yeah, in a way is good to mix windows with linux.

I run Windows XP Home and Suse Linux (64bit) on my laptop.

-Greg

GNU/Linux mainly. Gentoo at home, Debian at uni, Debian on the server.

What is this Windows you speak of?

A real Linux user...

I use Windows XP at work and at home. But I'm open to learning LINUX.

Has anyone tried XGL out yet? If you haven't give it a go, never before has an OS been so beautiful, but so functional.

It's got the desktop on a rotating 3D cube, just press ctrl-alt-click and drag. Windows have a little life of their own, when you drag them it's like they're squidgy - almost organic - press ctrl and they'll stick to things and peel off as you drag them away from what they're stuck to. Press F12 when you've got lots of windows on the screen and they all jump into clear space, re-arranging themselves and resizing so you can see them all. Alt-tab's been improved so you can see a small image of the window contents. To top it off everything's actually faster because most of the work is being done by the graphics card.

Am personally not good enough with Linux enough to actually install it, but have tried the Live CD which you can get at: http://kororaa.org/static.php?page=static060318-181203

It's a Live CD, which basically means that you download an ISO file, stick it on a CD and boot from it. Instant Linux! Bear in mind the following:

• This new desktop requires either an nVidia or ATI graphics card with 3D support (I think, tell me if I'm wrong about this).
• Because manufacturers are lazy and don't support Linux very well it will quite possible not work on your PC.
• It might not work for other reasons: It's damn hard to fit everything and make it work on one CD and XGL is not mainstream yet (although it has got Novell working on it).

Although:

• It's one CD;
• and if it doesn't work only about 10 minutes of your time.
• It'll either work or not work, no messing around installing stuff!

Go on give it a go, you'll love it, trust me!

Home/Dorm: WinXP
School: depends on the project and lab...but either CentOS ["enterprise" linux], Solaris, or WinXP

I'm getting ready to snake a computer from school (they're getting rid of it), and install Fedora on it for personal use in my room.

I've got Windows 2000...never used anything but windows..no Macs, no Linux. Just windows.

WinXP everywhere. It`s enought for all that I do. And for games

Windows XP everywhere

So who's upgrading to Windows Vista? Have you had a look at the really confusing license structure yet? Anyone actually understand it?

I`ll wait for official release and may be first service pack for it Before it will be not full compatable with all programs, and also will contain a lot of errors and problem with drivers.
And the second reason I still not upgrade to new Win 0 Vista is 64bit system. It`s not a good idea to use it as 32bit. So for it I must upgrade my PC. I did not whant to do it now....

I've never messed with Linux. Maybe I will soon. Windows just has so many great and convienient features.

WebMaster94 wrote: Windows just has so many great and convienient features.

Errrrr... Anyway!

Well when you do try Linux, don't expect it to be like Windows. The nicest thing is that you're free to do whatever you want with Linux, that's the point: Free as in freedom, not just free as in beer.

windows xp here with a linux pc for messing about on.

Renegade wrote: I use Ubuntu Breezy Linux at home

Have you upgraded to Dapper Drake yet Renegade? What do you think?

I finally got so annoyed with the lack of a decent online package repository in SuSE that I switched two weekends ago. It works like a charm, still wish I had time/intelligence enough to install Gentoo. Maybe one day, it's a learning curve!

No, I haven't switched yet. How is the installer? I heard it was a liveCD installer and is rather difficult to work with.

Windows at home and linux at work.

I also develop on embedded linux platforms with my job.

Sounds like fun nichevalue. I work for a company that makes credit card terminals, so lots of embedded development there.

Although I don't work on that stuff, I mess about with web based interfaces, databases and such. What does your company do?

Funny that you use Windows at home after you've had a taste of Linux?! Doesn't it drive you mad that there's no Vim? What happens when you want to pipe the output of find to grep?

Renegade wrote: How is the installer? I heard it was a liveCD installer and is rather difficult to work with.

I found it simple, absolutely fine, even on my - reasonably - old machine (Athlon XP 3200, 512 meg of RAM). In fact I was very impressed that I could play Mahjong and surf the Internet even while the installer was doing it's thing.

Where did you hear it's difficult?

I love slackware myself, used it for many years.

Currently, i'm using Windows Vista RC1. I'll be using it on one of my workstations at home for a good while yet. It's a massive improvement to XP.

What else but Windows XP at home and office. Works great for me.

Don't want anything else but that doesn't mean I like Mr. Gates.

Thanks to him though.

Have been running vista for about a month.
have a P4 1.5mhz pc, geforce mx graphics card - nowt flashy

XP or the software on it used to crash at least 2-3 times a week for various reasons.
I use vista for the same stuff as i used XP.

Summary so far :

My pc might have a few gray hairs but as far as vista goes? ...
will let you know when I get any problems with it!!

I use 3..

window XP
Window 2000 server ( needs to update)
Window 98 ( my old pentium 2 PC)

windows xp

2000 at work, XP at home. I have installed Ubuntu Linux but not got around to trying t properly yet.

conrad;211863 wrote: XP Pro the best OS out there

Oh, that was my line! with a slight variation of OS - OS X Panther

I'm using Win XP, but I'd like to shift over to a Mac someday soon, just for the graphics capabilities. I used to create television commercials on one, and I greatly miss the experience.

harper wrote: I used to create television commercials on one, and I greatly miss the experience.

That's interesting, what software did you use to create commercials?

I use Windows XP, and am hoping to upgrade to Vista. I would use Macs, but I don't think that it is for the best because all the software I use if designed for Microsoft.

Windows XP Media Center Edition

I'm using XP and have no plans of upgrading to Vista for a while

Still Windows XP

Using Windows XP Pro on this computer, Windows 2000 Pro on a security study related machine and OpenBSD for my apartment gateway. There are also 3 other computers in my house, 1 MAC and 2 Linux distros (both Ubuntu).

I like to experiment very much so I am often moving from one machine to another for various software quality assurance tests and security related evaluations.

I am also using Windows XP, really great! Tried MAC on a laptop before and I felt like I'm in grade school taking up Trigonometry, lols

At home I use Windows XP PRO, at school I have to be contended with Windows 98.

I have XP at home.

xp pro corp.

i had never use the mac os because i heard that Mac os only run or designed only for the Apple computers and are not applicable for all others.I am also using Xp (home) at home and pro in my office.

windows xp

Currently XP. Sometimes boot into Linux.

I use Mac OS 10.4.10 at home on my Intel-based iMac, and use Parallels Desktop software to run the occasional PC app.

At the office, I use an Apple Powermac G5 using Mac OS 10.4.10.

Also have a Dell PowerEdge server running the Microsoft Server 2003 operating system (we use this system as our file server).

Vista on both the Desktop and Laptop. It came installed on both. I would not have bought it otherwise. Not complaints per se - I just don't think I would have spent $$$ just to upgrade to it.