I realy do hate Linux. The machines in the upper floors of the university's electrical building use them and I hate it. Most of the time I have to fire up VMWare and run Windows XP to do what I need to do.

 

My friend uses Ubuntu with Beryl. It makes me drool.

I did vote for the "other" -- I have a Macbook dual booting OSX and WinXP. I do not like XP at all, but have to use it -- it runs all of the programs I need to use on a daily basis. The one thing that makes it bearable is all of the ported Linux programs. I use Pidgin, The GIMP, Open Office, etc. and they all run perfectly well. The one time I tried to dual boot on my desktop computer ended up writing over my data. Which was not fun. The bootloader decided that I didn't need my Windows partition any more. Oh well.

I do create backups often now. Wish it wasn't the special Microsoft backup program, but I didn't feel like looking around.

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I use windows(xp) and except it, because i don't know any better, it does everything i need it to do, so i cant see the point in using anything else?

 

I've tried to give Linux a fair go but I have to agree with dknguyen, and for the same reasons too. Also I find that software development environments are better in Windows - and I expected that to be Linux's strong point but it wasn't.

Brian

 

i use vista for my work laptop (forced to do so) and xp at home
had a go on the macs (like the computer styling much more but auto cad is not running on it)

vista does what it needs to do but have som problems that things drop out (calendar) and other of those small help programes

XP used always fine but need to get the service packs in order to get auto cad latest version running smoothly (don't know why)

mac not realy experianced it but the time i went on it the learning curve whas much quicker than XP (more logical for my mind i think)

 

I neither love or hate either platform. They are tools. When you use them for what they do best they work well enough.

Up to about 10 years ago I used HPUX.

These days for much of what I do windows is the only choice. I use XP because it works.

I use Debian Linux on my server and Smoothwall for a firewall. For some reason I have never warmed up to the various Linux desktops. Not much point in it since most of the apps I use do not run there.

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Its better to think what you did from your OS other than researching what is the best OS. I'm always thinking about the work even a piracy copy didn't let me down yet.

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I use Linux at home and I wouldn't say I really love it but I like it more than Windows. Installing new software can be a pain and I still haven't managed to get my printer working but Windows is just too slow and I get impatiant.

I use Windows at work and on a PC in my bedroom which runs MPLab and it's a pain at work and not too bad on my bedroom PC as it's only Win2k with no antivirus or other crapware and reuns reaonably quick.

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