Poll: What Operating System do you use?

[Azile]

Windows XP.

I've given Linux a chance a few times but quickly realized that I would never ever find the energy it takes to be able to use it to it's fullest potential. Besides, Windows XP does what it's supposed to do and does it good enough without too much trouble.

 

[Shamanic Enzan]

I am a Vistard, Home Premium

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

XP all the way, baby. I avoid Macs on principal-- their owners always seem to be the prickiest of pricks (no offense to non-prick Mac owners), and I don't want to be lumped in with that crowd.

Plus, who's retard idea was it to put the _ [] X buttons on the LEFT side of the window?

 

[Anton P. Nym]

I remember a time when a computer ran super fast on 512MB of ram though. What the heck happened to those days?

Never mind that: What happened to the days when 64MB of RAM was sufficient?

Pfft. You'll never need more than 640kB. (Yeah, I had one of those doohickies. I even gamed on it; Test Drive, Art of War, the obligatory chess... and then I threw in a VGA card to play M1 Tank Platoon. That was a mistake.)

-- Steve

 

[JimboG]

Vista HP on my desktop (with SP1 RC1), XP on my laptop (If I could afford Vista on it, I would put it on).

That being said, I would like to dual-boot on my desktop with Vista and Linux, although It's most likely pointless.

Had Windows 98/ME, they both sucked. More crashes than destruction derby with drunk guys.

Vista - Absolutely no problems, SP1 makes a slight improvement to speed, mem usage, FPS and OCing stability. (Yeah, I'm a techno freak/Hardcore gamer. I care about these things)

 

[REDPill357]

I use XP on my computer at my dad's house, XP on the family laptop at my mom's house, and 2000 on the computer in my sisters' room at my mom's house.

 

[KurtNiisan]

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.

- So true. When I got my laptop I tried installing XP on it so I could game, but it seems that all new computer components don't have drivers for XP. So I got stuck with Vista, but it turned out ok. I haven't had any problems with it and I've had my laptop for about 6 months now.

 

[Melaisis]

XP. Professional.

For about five years.

 

[John Galt]

I use XP. It's easy, simple, and not full of bugs like Vista. Although the architecture firm I interned at used Vista and it looked like it ran quite well for them, unfortunately for me, they give the teenage interns the 'Windows 2000 ghetto machine'.

Mac OSX looks nice but my experience with it in middle school tells me it's for people who refuse to learn how the magical blue smoke inside the computer works. Or folks who like to make funny videos, it's pretty much the same demographic.

 

[vector92]

I'm running vista ultimate
it looks great and it lets me play halo 2 on my pc but besides that i liked xp a lot more while i had it

 

[ABeck]

Windows XP on the computer in my room, and Windows Vista Premium on the computer in my living room (basically I use the Vista computer for video gaming [it's new] while my XP based system is for everything else... internet, writing, etc).

 

[pugslayer]

Vista, admitably i have 4 GB of RAM so some of the problems might not apply to me, but I've never had any problems that people talk about.
Which is to say I find Vista to be better "gasp!" and more intuitive.

 

[Carbon016]

I found ME slow but it hardly ever gave me a BSOD. My legacy days were with Win 3.1[1 for Workgroups]. Start Bar is for jerks.

 

[Jindrak]

I use XP, but I'd like to learn the finer points of linux. The HD in my laptop isn't too large though, so I doubt I could dual-boot prior to upgrading my computer (which I need to do anyway).

 

[Jesterz]

Windows XP. Grew up with Windows. Simple, customisable and i can't think of a good third point...Maybe i should rethink my OS....Nah, I'm too lazy.

 

[Same River New Water]

I missed the poll, but mark me down for OSX Leopard. After using a Mac, Windows seems frustrating to use - you think "WHAT? How can it not have this feature? It's so obvious!"

PCs are better for games, but that's more because Macs are absolutely terrible for gaming than because PCs tend to be very good. The hassle of getting an average game to work on PC is just too much stress for the reward.