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What OS do you use?

Which Operating Systems do you use on your home computers?

  • Windows XP/2003/Vista

    Votes: 181 67.3%
  • Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000

    Votes: 23 8.6%
  • Mac OS X

    Votes: 96 35.7%
  • Mac OS 9 or earlier

    Votes: 5 1.9%
  • Linux/BSD/Unix (any variant)

    Votes: 44 16.4%
  • Something else

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • I don't have a home computer

    Votes: 0 0.0%

I have Windows XP Pro on desktop and Windows XP Home on laptop.

At work, I have Windows XP Pro on desktop and laptops. Servers, I have bunch of different OSes, including Red Hat linux Enterprise, Windows 2000, Novell Netware, and even one Windows NT machine (really need to get rid of that).
 

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Tortoise said:
Anyone notice that the percentages in the poll total way above 100%
Some of us have multiple computers. Some computers have multiple OS on them.

I voted for XP, OS/X and Linux.

Cheers, -- N
 


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

Yes, which, while I suppose it makes the poll a more complete representation of the OSes represented here, invalidates the underlying agenda of the poll which ought to be "is the DDI unavailable to you due to the DirectX platform choice?"

Anyways...

Vista and XP at home on desktops, 2k on the aging laptop I don't use anymore.
 

Kaffis said:
Yes, which, while I suppose it makes the poll a more complete representation of the OSes represented here, invalidates the underlying agenda of the poll which ought to be "is the DDI unavailable to you due to the DirectX platform choice?"

It also gives people who use multiple OSes a statistical oddity. I have four computers that I use regularly (work, family desktop, home server, personal laptop). All the OSes (XP, Vista Home Pro, NT 2003, Vista Ultimate) are under one selection. I'm significantly underrepresented compared to the guy who has a Mac at home and a PC at work.
 


This poll has a major flaw in that in will not account people who own multiple computers with different OS ( I won a Mac with OS X and a PC with Windows XP).
 


Scott_Rouse said:
This poll has a major flaw in that in will not account people who own multiple computers with different OS ( I won a Mac with OS X and a PC with Windows XP).
Yeah, it's an internet poll. Entertainment purposes, external use only, do not taunt, etc. :)

I've got two Macs and one PC, so if one person couldn't make a game, I could theoretically host the rest of us around the table, while the 4th person played along at home (on his home box). Dunno if this kind of mixed-mode gaming is supported, but it would help my group. (As would OS/X support, of course.)

Cheers, -- N
 

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