What OS do you use?

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Not true. Of the publications and graphics people I've known, it's been split pretty evenly between the two platform. As one said, "Yeah, in 1990 Mac was significantly better than PC for graphics, but now (pre-2000), it's a toss-up."

Yep.

But sadly my end is split on the OSX side. Sigh.

 

[XCorvis]

Just out of curiousity (as I'm on XP @work and Vista @home), why did you lump NT and Win2K in with Win95/Win98/WinME? Just as a general 'old Windows' catch all? Because from a technical point of view, NT and 2K definitely belong grouped with XP, 2K3, and Vista; Vista's version number 'under the hood' is NT6.

I couldn't exactly remember the split (like you mention), so I went with "still supported by Microsoft" vs "on your own".

 

[Nifft]

1 PC (WinXP & Linux)
2 Macs (OS/X)

Cheers, -- N

 

[Thanee]

XP professional on notebook
XP professional on old desktop
Vista ultimate on new desktop

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

And I am really sort of burnt over vista. So much so, I am considering refurbishing my laptop that had xp on it that my shiny new vista machine was meant to replace.

Why not just get XP for the new machine then?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Tharian]

On my desktop (which is really old at this point), I run Kubuntu (Linux). Mind you, it hasn't been booted since I moved into my new flat a few months ago.

My laptop is a dual boot system with Ubuntu and Windows XP Home. I strongly prefer the Ubuntu side and have virtually everything running on this side (I'm using it currently). I have Windows XP on this box to handle some of the MSN messenger cam chats I have with someone because I haven't finished setting up the webcam drivers. Once I get that done, I'll likely not boot into the XP side very often.

As it stands, I have no plans to buy a Vista box. Money and a lack of desire to move to that OS are the key factors in that decision.

 

[azhrei_fje]

I have four SOHO machines running Linux (two Kubuntu 7.04, one CentOS 4, one SUSE 10.1). One is my accounting machine, one is a file server, one is my wife's desktop, and the last is a general purpose machine I use for playing with new software or for testing deployment of a web site or Java app or something similar.

My new laptop is a MacBook Pro with OSX and two virtual machines, one for WinXP and one for RHEL4 Server. The Windows VM is booted when I want to play poker or run DM Genie, otherwise I don't use it. There are also two spare laptops (Kubuntu 6.10 and WinXP) that haven't been powered up in quite awhile.

I teach and consult in the Linux/Unix IT market, so I'm not a typical home user. Had you already figured that out?

 

[ZombieButch]

At present, we have 5 computers in the house*: three PC's (one desktop and two laptops) and two Macs (an old iMac and a new MacBook).

*There are more than that, but the others are in mothballs at the moment, destined for donation in the near future.

 

[Tortoise]

Anyone notice that the percentages in the poll total way above 100%

 

[Steve Jung]

Anyone notice that the percentages in the poll total way above 100%

You can select multiple things to cover people who have more than one computer.
I have OSX 10.4.10 on my iMac and my MacBook.