Gaming Groups and their OS's

[Jack99]

All windows here, although I doubt it will do a difference. Only I will subscribe to the DDI

 

[Jackelope King]

My old face-to-face group has two mac users, but since they don't game online, no worries.

My current online group is 100% PC, and we'd kill for a good virtual tabletop (even if we likely wouldn't be playing D&D on it).

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Myself and one other player with Macs. Neither of us have new enough machines to dual boot as of right now.

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

100% Windows.

At least one ALSO has a Mac, and another uses Linux for everything but electronic gaming. However, both are, in fact, electronic gamers and understand that most of the software they want is only available for the PC. Actually, the Mac-user seems to prefer his PC anyway, probably because it's a laptop.

A bigger issue in my group is that two don't have internet access, and one doesn't have a computer.

So, 17/18 have Windows, 1/18 has no PC, and 15/18 have internet access.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

100% windows.
Ive never even met anyone who uses another OS, let alone see them in stores.

 

[SteveC]

Am I the only one who sees the contradictions in this statement?

No contradiction. My gaming friends tend to be IT professionals, so they:

1) Understand that non windows applications get the shaft.

2) Can find a way to run software on a platform that they don't favor.

Honestly, if I want to play a game with my friend who lives in Seattle and, for example, I needed to get access to a Mac to do so, I would do so.

I guess I don't see what's so confusing about that.

--Steve

 

[Mr. Patient]

We're 50% Macs in a group of 8, and I believe I'm the only one with an Intel Mac. And though I might be able to dual-boot my MacBook, I have no intention of purchasing Windows or a virtualizing environment just to run DDI. (I would be very interested in a "reduced" DDI subscription that featured just the Dragon & Dungeon content, though!).

 

[HellHound]

Myself and one of our players have multiple systems - I have a Mac, a Linux Box, and a bunch of Windows systems.

But none of us don't have a windows system.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

To my knowledge my group is 100% Windows (at home at least) and that includes 2 I.T. professionals.

 

[GreatLemur]

We've got one guy on a Mac (I think he's the only one, anyway...), but he runs Windows on it without any trouble.