What OS do you use?

My first box had windows 3.1 on it with a free upgrade to win95. Used that up to late 90s (after, also, buying win98) when I started using slackware linux.
Was on slackware for a few years, then tried gentoo for a few years. Shortly after drobbins left that project, I moved to debian and have been using it ever since.

still using XP here




i still have Windows 3.1 on a floppy

Ubuntu

OS X...

$.02

Arch Linux xD

drdos, ms, win3.1, win95, yggdrasil, freedos, win98, several random corporate unix and unix-like variants, random pre-OS X mac OSes, winXP, knoppix, debian, mepis, kanotix, palmos, pclinuxOS, OS X variants, ubuntu, vista, linux mint, several other ubuntu based and debian based distro whose names i've forgotten (including one from asus), win7, android.


All and all i'd have to say my favorite OSes so far have all been debian based (or ubuntu based, which is debian based).

I'm excited that (i heard) the new Mint will be straight from debian, not ubuntu based. I also look forward to trying out chromeOS. while google's market dominance makes me uncomfortable, they are make some great and innovative software products.

Always been with windows. XP the longest, and just upgraded to WIN 7 in August when I built my new i7 system. I don't have any real use for any mac OS ATM, but I do want to try something Linux based at some point...

StrengthFromWithin- if you just want to goof around and 'test the water', many linux distros have 'live CDs' that you can boot up and won't touch your hard drive. Keep in mind that they are running from your optical drive and won't be as fast as if they were on a hdd and are limited on software. But live CDs are a good way for a new guy to shop around.

Perfect examples of this are Knoppix, all the Buntu spins, and several others.

And if you decide to install, these LiveCDs can prove a valuable resource for rescuing an otherwise "hosed" box.

Running Linux Mint on one HDD and XP on another.

loving any distribution of Linux kinda starting to hate windows (crashes too much). windows 7 isn't bad but you have to have hardware that can handle the requirements real well, although lower than vista's requirements, windows 7 glitches out on lower quality graphics cards usually the built in graphics chipsets. I am hating on windows alot lately cause even at school where we have brand new desktops the graphics still every so often get glitchy. Linux makes more sense to me with its journaled file system. if only Linux could offer the security windows does then Linux would own the market.

kylekk262 said:<quote> if only Linux could offer the security windows does then Linux would own the market. </quote>

Oh, dude... linux is WAY more secure than windohs.
It's more secure, stable and versatile than windohs.
Linux doesn't 'own the market' because most people; don't know how, are too afraid or are too stupid to install an operating system for themselves. As well as; linux rarely comes pre-installed on home computers and there is no big linux marketing department, so many people aren't even aware of an alternative to miker$oft products.

On the other hand, I think you'd be surprised with how many of the websites you visit are served from a linux machine(s). The main reason is security and stability. Webmasters need their machines to serve their sites. Not waste time and resources on malware scanners and be offline because of crashes or rebooting every other day.
There are many electronic devices using embedded linuxes. That list is is growing rapidly. My bigscreen tv is linux driven, for an example.

And it's true there are journaling file systems for linux. There are other file systems to choose from, depending on your needs. XFS, for example, is an excellent choice for, say, storing movies.

I am really liking Ubuntu 10.10. I found a down-loader through Mozilla that downloads for real-play (Linux Alien version for real-player). It is an add-on I have been trying to build a video driver for chrome9. Chrome9 is the on-board video for this motherboard. I have the 256 mb ATI Radeon and the on-board is 256 mb. http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/drivers.jsp

I am going to try this beta version. Fedora has this problem whipped but I am running Ubuntu. Via and Linux is new ground I guess.

React OS
RHEL 5
UBUNTU
Win 7
OSX
SUN OS

Fun with comptuers!

How is ReactOS coming along? I use to follow the news on it, but have never used it.

React OS is still poking along. Cool stuff coming out of the project still. Once some of the drivers have gotten written, running on bare metal may be realized soon. Anyway, it's still worth checking out if you're a developer of any caliber.

http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Version_Status

React OS-
I hope I don't catch any flak for this but after another quick glimpse of their homepage, I didn't see that they address anything about security. I have to wonder if it will be, at least, as suceptible to malware as the original M$ product? Will the user, still, have to populate resources with virus and malware sniffers/ scanners?
Still, it does sound like a fun experiment. Especially for folks that HAVE to have a windohs environment.

Thanks to the new SATA drive I picked up that doesn't rely on the master/slave setup I have found a safe way to dual boot the Ubuntu 10.10 and the Fedora 14 for me that is. I have Ubuntu on the SATA drive and Fedora on the master drive. Fedora is using lvm on the two master drive drives and of course my cd rom is on the slave drive. I just have to reset when I want to go back to Ubuntu by resetting my first boot hard drive information to BIOS. Its a cool work around for me.

Running Windows 7 Home Premium x64, Windows Server 2008 r2, (I need server for testing) and Open Suse Linux 11.4 Milestone 4 in a multi boot configuration.

Mr. RainbowTrout,
Ever played with Virtualbox? If you have landed on, at least, a tentative distro, most have a virtualbox that you can set-up a virtual machine that will pretty much act like the real thing for anything you want to implement.
It will save your box from boot n reboot stress.
Example; I can start and stop m$dos 6.22 - winxpee from the media that I was licenced to use. I can start n stop linux disros from the 90s - today without partitioning and rebooting, all within my debian linux environment.
Don't beat your computer with re-boots.