What operating system do you use?

[crimson_menace]

At work, XP. At home, whatever the OS the ps3 runs on. I'd use my roomies' pc, but it's retarded. It's got windows ME, and a 13gig hdd, with such an insignificant amount of RAM -- that I think it's measured in KB's.

My ps3 > roomies' pc.

 

[Barracuda]

I never said anything negative about it, and I did use it for more than year after it was released and never experienced any real problems - I liked it. How often did you reformat / reinstall the OS during that time period?

I surprisingly only had to restore it about twice, maybe three times in the time period that it was mine alone. When it was the family computer we had to restore it once. All due to viruses though.

 

[kjb]

Ubuntu 7.10

 

[Vasco]

Vista Home Premium (x86 I think) on my lappy and then XP Home on my main PC (which will be soon replaced by a new one with Vista x64).

 

[Thiele]

Winslosh XtraPissy Home S***Pile2.

Fun. Or not so much.

Surely Windows can't be that bad. (I could be wrong, i've never used an OS ther than Windows)

Sometimes mine locks up if i try to close too many things at once, and i have to click shut down 5 times, last night it refused to shut down, so i had to turn it off at the power point because i lost patience.

 

[Exsurantoel]

Vista is pretty good, it never freezes If you have lots of hardware for XP though, you're stuffed

 

[livemusic]

Windows XP Pro SP2. I would like to try Ubuntu some time.

 

[dice1998]

Windows 7 Ultimate on Desktop & Laptop

A Custom version of Windows 7 for netbooks called EEE7, which is Windows 7 Ultimate, EXTREMELY slimmed down (for netbooks).

 

[livemusic]

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

Well, just to update I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium x64 at my desktop and Windows 7 Home Basic x64 at the laptop we bought this week.

Edit: And I did try Ubuntu (and several other linux distros) since my last post in this thread.

 

[nick09]

Talk about being dug up from the grave. Voted "Other" for Windows 7 and nowadays I rarely use Ubuntu since I can maintain my Windows install. Though I know for a fact that Linux can be used as a backup when you have virus trouble. Linux for me is just used to get information on old computer hardware for when I need to get windows drivers, backup when windows is bad, and I use the Live CD when I want to get data before I wipe a PC.

 

[dice1998]

It's better than duplicating threads, and this thread interests me anyways (thank you search function).

 

[Lain]

lol seriously?

Anyway, I voted Vista (Vista fixed, AKA Win 7), Mac OS X, Linux, and Vintage (Mac OS 7.5.5)

 

[Owen.C93]

Talk about being dug up from the grave. Voted "Other" for Windows 7 and nowadays I rarely use Ubuntu since I can maintain my Windows install. Though I know for a fact that Linux can be used as a backup when you have virus trouble. Linux for me is just used to get information on old computer hardware for when I need to get windows drivers, backup when windows is bad, and I use the Live CD when I want to get data before I wipe a PC.

I'm the other way round, Ubuntu all the time except for Photoshop or gaming where I need Win 7. Now that I have a decent desktop I rarely use my Windows partition anymore :L.

 

[Villain]

Personal laptop: OSX Snow Leopard
Home Office: Windows Vista
Work: Windows XP

 

[Ddrizle]

Windows XP/Windows 7 - Newer Home PC (Dual Boot)
Windows XP - Older Home PC
Windows 7 - Laptop
Windows XP - Work

 

[Horde_R35]

Windows 7 Ultimate x64:tup:!

 

[nick09]

I'm the other way round, Ubuntu all the time except for Photoshop or gaming where I need Win 7. Now that I have a decent desktop I rarely use my Windows partition anymore :L.

To be honest I was a big Linux user 1-2 years ago due to fear of viruses taking down windows and having to lose my files. I'm not so scarred of them anymore and I use windows everyday without being worried about my system. I should really set my maintenance programs to scan once a week to make it simple. That's another thing, anti-virus software has become great, free, and easy to use nowadays. I personally use the free version of Avast! anti-virus and don't see a reason why to get the paid version.

 

[ivoyared]

Windows 7 Home Premium x32

 

[Azuremen]

Windows 7 Pro 64 bit - 2 desktops.
Windows 7 Pro 32 bit - netbook
Windows XP Pro SP3 - another desktop

 

[Tornado]

Windows 7 Professional 32-bit - Laptop
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit - Desktop
Windows XP Home SP3 32-bit/Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit/Ubuntu 10.10 - Other Desktop

 

[itsbenjibrand]

I have a desktop computer with Windows Millenium Edition. I only use it because it has a DVD player , if it weren't for having all my dvds that computer would be in the trash bin.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

PC: Still XP SP3 (Hope to change to Win7 Ultimate 64bit sometime soon)
Laptop: Win7 Home Premium 64bit

 

[Crash]

Mac OS X Snow Leopard - Laptop
Windows 7 Professional x64 - Desktop

 

[E28]

Vista at home, Win 7 at school (although half the computers at school are old and can barely run 7).

 

[DQuaN]

1 laptop, 2 desktops, all running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and dual booted with Ubuntu.

 

[BobK]

A desktop running linux (Slackware 12.2).
A desktop running linux (Debian lenny).
A desktop running Windows XP home entertainment edition
A NAS running linux
A Xoom running Android 3.0 (honeycomb, linux)

Actually the Debian box dual boots into Debian and Slack 13.1. And I suppose I should call it GNU/Linux on the Debian box, but I don't.

If you want to count emulators/virtual machines, in the last month I've used Windows 3.11, MS-DOS 6.2, Freedos, TRSDOS 2.3 and LDOS.

 

[Robin]

1 Desktop - Windows 7 Professional 64bit
1 Desktop - Windows XP Home Edition 32bit
1 Desktop - Windows 95

1 Laptop - Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
1 Laptop - Windows XP Professional 32bit

And a few other laptops lying around running ancient OS's.

 

[Sharky.]

Desktop - Win 7 Ultimate x64
Laptop - Win 7 Pro x86

Considering dual-booting the laptop with Fedora for t3h lulz...

 

[Moglet]

Desktop - Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Phone - Android 2.1

 

[Owen.C93]

To be honest I was a big Linux user 1-2 years ago due to fear of viruses taking down windows and having to lose my files. I'm not so scarred of them anymore and I use windows everyday without being worried about my system. I should really set my maintenance programs to scan once a week to make it simple. That's another thing, anti-virus software has become great, free, and easy to use nowadays. I personally use the free version of Avast! anti-virus and don't see a reason why to get the paid version.

If you know what your doing with Windows with regards to AV and keeping everything clean and in order then it's a very very solid and fast OS. But for everyday things I find Ubuntu much faster and requiring less maintenance. But I'm also one for customising and testing things, so having every program for free and a great community really allows me to have some fun with linux.


I've seen some leaks of Windows 8 that don't immediately excite me, but you can bet I'll be the first to download the Beta when it's available.