What OS do you use?

[Plane Sailing]

If it looks like this thread is going to degenerate into OS-wars, it will be closed.

...getting dangerously close at the moment...

 

[azhrei_fje]

If it looks like this thread is going to degenerate into OS-wars, it will be closed.

...getting dangerously close at the moment...

Oh, don't be a party pooper. ( <--- If you can't tell, that's a big grin! )

So far I like the Mac OS. I'm a Linux fanboy, but any flavor of Unix is fine with me. Call me a bigot, but I like operating systems with real memory protection. And I like having hardware that works on the Mac, compared to Linux. My Compaq laptop wouldn't suspend properly, making the standby feature useless (this was apparently a BIOS problem on the Compaq, since a custom ACPI DSDT table can apparently fix it). And that's a big problem.

I use Windows to run DM Genie and some of the Internet poker software, but that's it. Everything else is Linux, including all of the accounting and document preparation for a half-million dollar a year business (I run a corporate training and consulting business). I'm not IBM, but I would trust my business to a Unix system before anything else.

Games are not important to me, or I suppose I might be stuck with Windows. As it is, I occasionally play BZFlag or Mahjong (sp?) but that's it.

Operating systems are just tools. They are the raw resources needed to get a job done and nothing more. I treat them as such.

 

[sckeener]

My fiancé runs Mac os x.
I run XP64.
At work I use a mix of XP and Vista.
And the kids use XP, Vista, and Mac os x.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I have both Windows and Linux PCs but might not have Windoze much longer considering I absolutely refuse to switch to Vista with it's locked down DRMware. (Yes I know about the DRM and vendor spyware in XP, I go to great efforts to break every known instance of it.)

 

[Tharkun]

I voted Linux.

 

[Laslo Tremaine]

I have four computers at home right now...

• A home built PC for gaming, running Windows XP.
• A 12" PowerBook Al that I use for writing, browsing, etc. Running OS X 10.4.10 (this is probably the machine that I use the most...)
• A Mac Mini hooked up to the TV that I use for music and videos. Running OS X 10.4.10
• An old Graphite G3 Tower running OS X Server 10.4.10 that I use as a web/file server.

And at work I have a MacBook Pro running OS X, Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Primary Desktop: Windows XP
Secondary Desktop: Windows 98
Laptop: Windows 2000

 

[Glaken]

You couldn't PAY me to use any flavor of windows for my personal use. I have nothing but Macs in my house and don't see any reason to change. If WotC doesn't see the value in supporting Macs then they definitely don't deserve my business. I won't be buying any of the 4e stuff at all until they see it in them to support all players equally. I'd much rather give my money to company like PCGen and others that use programming that can support all users equally then be treated like a second class gamer.