Dreadnought
Deity
I use Windows XP
What OS do you use?(Please leave in OT)
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Grohan
Bug-hunter
Windows XP. It's very good and stable compared to my previous OS... Windows ME!
Lozzy_Ozzy
Rapture
Grohan said:Windows XP. It's very good and stable compared to my previous OS... Windows ME!
Yes, although when I get my new HD i'm going to put a (or some) form(s) of Linux on it.
Linux. Mandriva 2006.0, at the moment.
As for why ... Well, I have used Unix at work off and on since 1985, so I am comfortable with it. I have played with Linux since about 1998, putting it on a small partition just to see how good it was, etc. Then, about 2 yrs ago, during on of my regular "reformat & reinstall WIndows" episodes, WIndows wouldn't load. It simply refused. At that point, I said, "Screw it. I've had enough of this crap." I wiped the drive clean, and nstalled Mandrake 10.0. Since then, I have been able to do everything I used to do in WIndows (the only real game I play is Civ - and it can be played using the Cedega "emulator"). And I have none of the virus/spyware headaches I used to have with Windows Life is just much happier.
As for why ... Well, I have used Unix at work off and on since 1985, so I am comfortable with it. I have played with Linux since about 1998, putting it on a small partition just to see how good it was, etc. Then, about 2 yrs ago, during on of my regular "reformat & reinstall WIndows" episodes, WIndows wouldn't load. It simply refused. At that point, I said, "Screw it. I've had enough of this crap." I wiped the drive clean, and nstalled Mandrake 10.0. Since then, I have been able to do everything I used to do in WIndows (the only real game I play is Civ - and it can be played using the Cedega "emulator"). And I have none of the virus/spyware headaches I used to have with Windows Life is just much happier.
Abaddon
Deity
Yea im with the XP crowd- i really dont get all the bashing of windows.. for me XP seems very stable...
MarineCorps
Explosion!
Xp home SP2. Most likely won't change OS for another few years, Vista doesn't look promising enough.
The whole Windows line (XP Pro currently), but I'm firing up Mandrake 10.1 on an old unused (other than Folding@Home) workstation and seeing what I can make of it. Unfortunately the ISO I downloaded may be corrupt, but I've got RedHat 9.0 around here somewhere if I can't get by the problem.
dickie
Chieftain
Mac OSX (Tiger) on my Mac. Windows and Ubuntu linux on my PC. Best of all worlds.
CivEmperor
Warlord
Mainly Windows XP... however I hate it so I've recently got another computer running Knoppix, and I plan on getting a Mac with OS X.
t92300
Yip Thats Me
SUSE 9.2 and win98SE very rarely when I want to play games.
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
Windows XP Home SP2.
Gentoo Linux mainly, though I do have partitions with Debian and Ubuntu that I use to test software on. I just recently installed a new pure ~amd64 Gentoo using gcc-4.0.2 and modular xorg and despite expecting a myriad of problems happily ran into very few, the biggest of which is direct rendering still not being supported for my radeon X800 card which leaving me no choice but except using the closed source ati-drivers for decent 3D. Oh, and I can't run Civ on that partition either because wine and xorg aren't playing well together.
diablodelmar
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Windows XP pentium m
I just found a place that sells the ten most popular distros of Linux on CD for $40 including shipping. Once I get RedHat/F@H going on the PC I'm working on now, I forsee eight other nearly-identical old workstations each getting a different flavor of Linux as well. 
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