Poll: What Operating System do you use?
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For my laptop I have Vista Home Premium installed, while on my home gaming machine I use XP.
Prefer Vista for general stuff, but if I am going to do any proper gaming then it has to be XP for me still.
One day I may start to dual-boot with Linux and XP/Vista.
Prefer Vista for general stuff, but if I am going to do any proper gaming then it has to be XP for me still.
One day I may start to dual-boot with Linux and XP/Vista.
OSX Tiger. If I was employed I'd have bought Leopard by now but que sera. I have a desktop running XP but since I don't use it for games, It rarely gets switched on. I got sick of XP crashing on me. In the year since I bought my MacBook it has never crashed once. The only problem I've had is the death of the onboard speakers.
Vista =P
Vista is really pretty, but other than that it is pretty pathetic.
I'd have chosen XP, but my mom claimed that I couldn't get a laptop with it anymore (which I knew was a load, but I didn't have time to fuss around with it).
All in all, it isn't too bad, but I also have a widescreen display, which makes everything other than viewing movies difficult (I can't find wallpapers, games look stretched horizontally, etc.)
Vista is really pretty, but other than that it is pretty pathetic.
I'd have chosen XP, but my mom claimed that I couldn't get a laptop with it anymore (which I knew was a load, but I didn't have time to fuss around with it).
All in all, it isn't too bad, but I also have a widescreen display, which makes everything other than viewing movies difficult (I can't find wallpapers, games look stretched horizontally, etc.)
Ubuntu Gutsy for everything except for studio recording and (modern) gaming, for which I use Win XP on a separate computer. Haven't touched Vista, since there's no way in hell I'm paying $400 for a full version. Dumbed down versions of hardware make me rather irritated, but in software it's so blatantly greedy I don't know where to begin.
I have an old XP Pro license that I bought during my college days and only if my workplace would provide a Vista license would I even consider installing it.
I just wish Microsoft would really implement their anti-piracy schemes all the way. Let's see what would happen to Microsoft if they lost their unofficial user-base. Then maybe gamedevs would start developing portable games, which honestly isn't that much work if you use OpenGL. There's a horde of open source devs out there who would gladly spend considerable time on making GNU-based systems into specialized and capable gaming platforms (I'm one of them).
Piracy is what keeps Microsoft alive.
EDIT: These kind of statements usually spark debate, so I'm starting a separate thread if you care for some ranting of mine on the topic.
I have an old XP Pro license that I bought during my college days and only if my workplace would provide a Vista license would I even consider installing it.
I just wish Microsoft would really implement their anti-piracy schemes all the way. Let's see what would happen to Microsoft if they lost their unofficial user-base. Then maybe gamedevs would start developing portable games, which honestly isn't that much work if you use OpenGL. There's a horde of open source devs out there who would gladly spend considerable time on making GNU-based systems into specialized and capable gaming platforms (I'm one of them).
Piracy is what keeps Microsoft alive.
EDIT: These kind of statements usually spark debate, so I'm starting a separate thread if you care for some ranting of mine on the topic.
OSX 10.3 at home. I can't be arsed to upgrade, I'll skint myself buying a new MacBook Pro at some point though.
since they are free I want to try them all.
I use XP now. I used to use Vista, and I think as long as you have 2GB of memory, most of the complaints are kinda unwarranted. (It'll normally perform about as well as XP would with 2GB) On the other hand, it doesn't really make enough glorious advances for me to reconsider it on my last hard drive format.
using mac OSX 10.3 on my MacBook, and I love the stability. I'm using windows XP on my desktop...which is starting to behave oddly (again) and I've only had the installation on it for about a year, so I'll be looking at cleaning it up, and perhaps doing an xp/linux dual-boot, or just a simple xp job. Though patching various things (on a fairly sluggish connection) will be a pain about as far up the rear as they can get.
Right now I'm using OSX Tiger, and Windows XP on my iMac through the wonders of partitioning for dummies, which is also known as Boot Camp. I'm planning to move to a Macbook Pro, and a dedicated gaming desktop when I upgrade so then I'll probably be using Leopard, and Vista.
Work issues aside, my primary vehicle of choice is leopard. It's true my most frequently used laptop is still running tiger, but I doubt it has the system resources for leopard. I keep XP around for the time being, but I really only tolerate it for games.
I used to use Linux Ubuntu but some of my software didn't work properly so I was forced to move to Windows XP.
XP and Windows 2000.
The windows 2000 is largely for putting on older software and it never sees an internet connection.
The windows 2000 is largely for putting on older software and it never sees an internet connection.
