What operating system do you use?
By taiguy
@taiguy (478)
United States
April 11, 2008 3:05pm CST
Which operating system or version of windows do you use? XP, Vista, Linux, Max OSX ? Amiga?
I use Linux at work and at home. We actually sell our software to Windows users, but use an extra "library" to let our unix/linux source code compile on windows.
At home I am not seeing any push towards needing Windows in the future. All the windows games now run on Linux through it's windows emulation software.
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18 responses
@Guardian208 (1095)
• United States
11 Apr 08
I use WinXP at work and 3 home computers. I use Vista on a laptop. I used to have Linux as a file server at home but I redeigned my home network and didn't need that extra box.
The reason I use WinXP is that some of my software is not available on Linux. How do you and how hard is it to use the emulator software? I would love to try it because I like the stability of Linux.
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@Guardian208 (1095)
• United States
12 Apr 08
I will give it a try. Thanks for the tip and also for the BR.
@motorheadbanger (441)
• United States
11 Apr 08
Two Windows XP computers and a Windows Vista computer occupy my house. Although soon it will be two Vista and one XP computer. Right now I am using Windows XP.
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@boonos (11)
• Philippines
12 Apr 08
elow... I also use XP but im curious of vista...
I think im going to try usting vista...
@markb658 (40)
• Ireland
12 Apr 08
Linux, for everything!, I said good bye to windows about 4 years ago and havn't used, let alone installed it again at home, Pure linux head here, Ubuntu to be exact, I work in a theatre, system admin, and i have every computer running linux, Suse in the box office and Ubuntu on the rest, and they love it in there!
@wrangel15 (1443)
• Philippines
16 Apr 08
I also use Ubuntu right now. I enjoy using it so far. I started using Linux three months ago. There's no problem running Windows programs on it because of the emulator. I also have VirtualBox installed on it so I can run Windows while runing Ubuntu.
@egdcltd (12059)
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11 Apr 08
I've got XP on my desktop. and Vista on my laptop. I did have Linux installed as an alternate operating system on my desktop, but it wouldn't talk to my modem. So, as the desktop was the only computer I had, I'd load XP, go to the support site, download and print off stuff that was supposed to help, turn off and restart the PC in Linux, try to get the modem to work, turn off Linux, reboot Windows...Needless to say, I gave up on it, and removed Linux.
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@taiguy (478)
• United States
11 Apr 08
Doesn't sound too far off. Took me a couple weeks to setup a modem in linux the first time I used it. Modems are tricky because they are all "WinModems" which don't use standard IRQ functionality so it's not neccessarily all linux's fault. On the good side alot has changed over the last few years to where now you can simply plug in your DSL router and enable into the control panel without problems. I would say modem was definately the trickiest by far. I also have a imbed sound card which linux does not see. It does think the RAID chip is a sound card though.
@egdcltd (12059)
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12 Apr 08
Yes, it was a speedtouch modem, and there was no "out of the box" support for Linux. I've now got a Netgear one, not sure what the support is like for Linux on that. I don't have the spare hard disk space currently for another operating system; maybe I'll pick up a third HD for my main PC.
@RedX922 (143)
• Romania
11 Apr 08
personal? i use XP because...Vista is a monster who eats a lot of memory...my computer isn't so good to work properly with vista...a have 256 ram and 128 video... i have this computer for 4 years...LInux...Linux is a operating system with what i don't understand...i don't know who to use it...
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@taiguy (478)
• United States
11 Apr 08
Linux is just as easy to use as Windows these days -- providing you are actually a little computer savvy. Everything now is all GUI based (egh), but you can still pop a command-line window and do stuff that way. I think it's still a little more for programmers than regular users, but it really has come along way towards "user friendliness" (ugh, who cares about the user? just give me POWER! :)
It is too bad vista takes up so much memory. I would like to setup a couple windows boxes on older (i.e. 400mhz - 1ghz) computers to test the performance of some of my software, but if I have to use win98 it's kinda pointless.
@joimarquez (1836)
• United States
12 Apr 08
Im still using xp, i dont think i will be upgrading to vista soon....i have alot of applications that dont support vista and if they do...i will have to upgrade or buy a new software to work on vista. Although ive already seen how vista works. its really has nice graphics.
@joimarquez (1836)
• United States
12 Apr 08
Im still using xp, i dont think i will be upgrading to vista soon....i have alot of applications that dont support vista and if they do...i will have to upgrade or buy a new software to work on vista. Although ive already seen how vista works. its really has nice graphics.
@kevsgirlalways (5883)
• Malaysia
12 Apr 08
at home my laptop has windows vista home premium. but my laptop at office is using windows xp professional SP2. 
@mindofdude (69)
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14 Apr 08
Well i have a multi-arrangement of operating systems.
I use Vista & xp pro at my work and use Linux on my desktop at home and xp pro on my laptop.
only just managed to get used to vista tho, its a freaky OS.
Loving Linux tho, if i could i'd convert my whole work to linux desktops lol.
@bayernfan (1430)
• Canada
13 Apr 08
I use Windows XP 64-bit in one computer and Kubuntu 7.10 64-bit in another computer. I have no need or desire to move to Vista. My computers are fully capable of running Vista, but I am happy with the OSes that I use and I follow the motto:
If it isn't broken, then don't fix it.
@jesbellaine (4139)
• Philippines
12 Apr 08
We have Windows 98 Second Edition for old PC, Windows XP professional for a desktop, Windows Vista for the new laptop and another desktop for LINUX machine. Yes, most of the application and software nowadays are based on Linux so maybe you are right.
@Mythion (188)
• Israel
17 Apr 08
I've had experience with linux mandrake, redhat and debian. I think they don't fit the public at start, you'll have to learn to install and use it(terminal and stuff) if you come from a windows background but after you install it it's much better, more comfortable, can work with much less of a computer than windows(XP needs 256mb RAM just to work normally and Vista needs a minimum of 512mb RAM) and looks better(with KDE and such).
@asheshpatel (178)
• India
12 Apr 08
i use XP and it is very good so i say use xp it is faster then vista but vista has lots of features and i play lots of games using xp its good.
@ironyofitall (82)
• India
12 Apr 08
I am still using Windows XP. I have used Microsoft Vista, but don't think it is in any way better than XP. Windows Vista is no more than eye candy. It's the worst OS I ever expected from Microsoft.
XP for me :)
@leocatubig (409)
• Philippines
12 Apr 08
Our Computer's O.S is Windows XP . I don't know about other o.s just windows.
