Lifehacker is running a poll on what Windows version people are using. We’re expanding it to all operating systems. Now if you’re like Uncle Dave (one with Vista, two with XP, two with OSX) you have multiple OS’ and versions going. Since the poll software apparently will only let you vote once, enter the OS you use the most.
And if you have something else, tell us what. And why.
I run XP in the office and Vista at home on my media centre and PC. My non-media centre at home is mid range i7 based with a decent graphics card, which seems to provide enough grunt to overcome Vista sluggishness, but the media centre runs like a dog with 2g of RAM.
Now that I’m using XBMC as a media player (fantastic product btw)and I watch very little broadcast TV, I may look as going to linux on the media centre machine. PC Games are the only reason I don’t have a Mac or linux main PC.
39% OSX to 24% XP! Wow, Dave, I had no idea that you had such a deeply disturbed following… Are you a closet artist or something?
I use two computers at work, plus two laptops (one travels back and forth from work), plus at home a desktop machine.
One desktop at work is running XP. One desktop at work is running VMWare with XP and Vista Enterprise. The desktop at home is running Vista Ultimate. The Dell laptop is running Vista Ultimate. The second laptop is a Mac iBook G4 running Mac OS.
So, how exactly would I answer this poll? I’m sure I’m not the only geek out there with more than two machines…
I use Vista and like its configurability. If Win7 will run OK on my laptop and the upgrade price is reasonable, I might upgrade a few months after the release.
My wife uses OSX and likes it, mostly for the pretty user interface. I know enough about Unix to fix things under the interface if needed.
Both of us use laptops, by the way.
Commodore 64 not a option?
#4 – You like Vistas configurability? You’re going to fix your wifes OSX “under the interface?” You sound like a retard and your wife sounds fat.
I’ve been using Vista on all my machines since it came out. Its a very under-appreciated OS.
I’m trying out the Windows 7 RC on my main system right now.
Work: 1 Linux (Fedora), 1 Sun
Home: 1 Win XP, 1 Mac OSX, 5 Linux (3 Fedora, 1 SUSE, 1 home brew), 1 virtual Mac on Linux, 1 virtual Linux (Ubuntu) on XP.
Future? I am done with MS. I’ll keep my XP copy as a virtual machine when current hardware dies. Linux workstations and Mac laptop (dual boot with Linux) is in the cards.
Me?
* Vista 64-bit
* XP on Bootcamp
* 2 x OS X.5.7
Vista has NEVER crashed, XP randomly does, my 2003 powerBook had frozen a few times, the new MBPro has yet to.
Will I upgrade Win7? No, as everything is stable. Why upset stability?
I dual boot Ubuntu Linux and Vista, although I spend 90+% of my time in Linux. I installed Linux because the laptop came with Vista Home. I paid for a 64 bit processor and I wanted to use it.
Vista is pleasant but boring. Linux is hours of fun tweaking and learning. And fast, fast, fast.
Two machines running XP Pro, one on XP Home, and one on Vista.
I like my XP Pro but it is time to upgrade the whole machine to something a lot faster. I’ll probably stick with XP and rebuild.
“My wife uses OSX and likes it, mostly for the pretty user interface. I know enough about Unix to fix things under the interface if needed.”
The devil you say, OSX NEVER breaks, I know this because Apple is running the commercial constantly. Now would you like to recant?
Two custom built machines. My main machine runs Kubuntu 9.04 while the other PC runs Windows XP. The Windows machine is hardly used except to help troubleshoot friends and co-workers PCs. The linux machine runs Virtualbox so that I can try other Linux distributions
At work, my station uses a WinTerm that connects to a server running Windows Server 2003. I hate IE 7.0. So far I haven’t been able to get Firefox installed.
You could also just check your log files. Then determine the people who fill out the forms vs the actual number of OS users to this site and see if any certain OS lends itself to peeps answered stupid surveys.
We had a lot of computers donated to the convent. The ones that had Vista load we just backed over them with the church bus and shit canned them.
#14 dunno has a good point. I want — no, I demand to see a comparison between the stats on your log files compared to the poll. I’ve long suspected some posters here are delusional.
I key in the OS I wrote, from memory, into my Altair 680 every time I turn it on.
Let’s see — going left to right around the room: for reliable downloading and file storage, Fedora Linux; for media, browsing and games, Pre-XP. On my wife’s side: for iTunes, OS X; for media, games, email and browsing, XP Media Center Edition.
That doesn’t count the laptop or the “retired” machines, but the mix there is about the same.
These surveys never have the right box for me. We should be able to pick multiple answers.
XP for all but one vista box bought crazy cheap in acer scratch n dent sale.
Next year it’s W7 64bit on intel 6 core westmere, ssd cache, much DDR 3.
It appears that the Vistards aren’t fairing well.