OS survey

[Zucca]

I'm interested to know what OS you guys use primarily.
Please fill in this little survey. :)

Also discussing is more than welcome.
I already cast my vote for Linux. I use Gentoo Linux as my primary OS and Arch Linux on my server. Also There's Maemo Linux on my Phone. ;)

[Wing-0]

Windows 7 here... unfortunately.

I used Ubuntu on the PS3 until I had to format it and haven't had the time to install it in this computer, which is now my primary computer. Will do so eventually.

[The HuBBs]

7 for me but I plan on getting AmigaOS4.1. I wish it was still called Workbench the fact that the amiga brand lives on makes me happy.

[Zucca]

Amiga was so ahead of its time when it was on sale...

[Missagh]

Vista for browsing and general bs... and OSX for all professional work. I cannot handle Windows under any pro practices.

[meteor9]

Windows XP. I'd love to move up to 7 or even just Vista (since Vista had a lot of useful stuff and the annoying bits were easily disabled), but for now, groady ol' XP.

Linux would be far too much of a hassle, although I do have a spare PC I could train with. I just don't have the patience for a lot of things and with the Linux community being LEGENDARILY unhelpful, I'm not sure I'd want to bother.

Mac...heh, macs. We've reached a point where there's really no point to go for a mac, I think. PCs can do just about everything the same and you can actually control them. Mac's "It just works and don't you dare question it" approach really wouldn't gel with me.

Also I don't have one so I guess it's kind of a moot point anyway.

[Zucca]

XP is the best Windows there is.
I've used Vista and 7. Vista was horrible, 7 is barely acceptable. XP is just fine.

[The HuBBs]

you're joking right? W7 is amzing. It's ten times more stable, accessible and all around better than XP.

[Semix]

People use stuff other than windows? I've heard of linux but no one I know in person at all uses something other that windows, although i have seen a mac here and there

[rodrigo]

ubuntu

[Zucca]

you're joking right? W7 is amzing. It's ten times more stable, accessible and all around better than XP.

Nope. Not joking.
At my work for example if we need to print more than one copy Win7 only prints one. So we have to repeat the procedure as many times as we want copies. This is same with all the Win7 machines at our work place.
Also earlier Win7 crashed the program that tried to print in A5 size. Now it's been fixed.
And my mom also has Win7 on her laptop. Win 7 doesn't have any kind of sense when NOT to go into sleep mode: shutting down win7 usually meant some system upgrades. My mom always closes the lid at shutdown because there's just no point to stay waiting for the upgrades to finish. But when she closes the lid win7 starts the hibernation process... Next when she powers up her laptop win7 a) continues the upgrade or b) failt to upgrade and the system is somewhat corrupt. Rebooting few times seemed to fix the system back.
Although Win7 has better UI than XP but that doesn't forgive all these nasty bugs.
I guess many of these bugs will be gone in next service pack upgrade....

[BenoitRen]

Windows 7, more accessible? They changed, added and removed a lot of things for no reason, which actually makes it less accessible, in my experience.

I don't get where people get the notion that Windows Vista and Windows 7 are more stable than Windows XP, considering that I've never seen Windows XP crash unless there was a driver problem (I'm looking at you, nVidia!).

[The HuBBs]

Because it is. The stuff they took out for 7 was filler crap that helped cause so many issues with Vista. I don't know about you but I had a ton of issues with XP from vanilla to sp2.

[Wing-0]

@Semix: I used Ubuntu and Red Hat back in the day. They are good for working or school. Browsing the net, listening to music, chatting, etc. were easy for me to do in them. Still, watching videos online (like porn or Youtube) were a real pain in the ass because of codecs, blah, blah, blah...

So far Windows 7 serves its purpose to let me have fun and work. Still, several programs I like for electronic circuits simulation, programming of PLCs (programmable logic circuits) don't work properly, which is a tremendous annoyance.

I've wanted to install a Linux OS in this machine to work with complex simulations, but the warranty hasn't expired just yet, which means I can't open the machine nor mess with it by installing stuff like a different OS without voiding it. Still, this December I'm going to install a decent Linux distribution.

[BenoitRen]

I don't know about you but I had a ton of issues with XP from vanilla to sp2.

Yes, XP without Service Packs until Service Pack 2 was a rocky road, or so I hear. After that, though? It was just fine. It got even better with Service Pack 3, performance-wise.