Author Topic: Which Operating System Do You Mainly Use? (Read 16059 times)

UnplayedNamer · « **on:** May 11, 2006, 04:15:38 pm »

Just out of interest...

Ubuntu 5.10 for me

phaedrus · « **Reply #1 on:** May 11, 2006, 04:58:15 pm »

Slackware! The Granddaddy of all Distros! Still the best. (As if you couldn't tell from my .sig.)

Jeff

Raumkraut · « **Reply #2 on:** May 11, 2006, 05:29:13 pm »

For gaming I mostly use Win XP, and I have a larger percentage of machines which run Mandriva, but neither of those were the question, so my answer is PCLinuxOS.

(It's good having control over which OS you use at work!)

phaedrus · « **Reply #3 on:** May 11, 2006, 07:28:58 pm »

Quote from: "Raumkraut"

(It's good having control over which OS you use at work!)

Absolutely. I'm a Linux admin in a mostly Linux environment. Whenever I have to work with windows, it drives me nuts--sorry to the windows partisans out there, but I just don't understand how you get work done without going crazy.

Heaven is tabbed terminal emulators on a dualhead workstation with 4 desktops/monitor.

Jeff

Stof · « **Reply #4 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:35:45 pm »

Am I the only Mandriva user ?

[EVIL]Unknown · « **Reply #5 on:** May 11, 2006, 09:07:22 pm »

windows xp....

yeah i know bill gates has warped my fragilistic mind :eek:

Moofed · « **Reply #6 on:** May 11, 2006, 11:54:49 pm »

Arch Linux

werepants · « **Reply #7 on:** May 12, 2006, 01:26:47 am »

I use XP mostly, but I am currently working on getting Yoper Linux set up (supposed to be fast) and am eagerly waiting for suse 10.1 final to finish downloading. Once I find a distro that performs like I want it to for gaming, XP will be banished from my HD

kozak6 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 12, 2006, 07:48:01 am »

Windows XP.

I'm sorry.
:cry: :cry: :cry:

Vector_Matt · « **Reply #9 on:** May 12, 2006, 12:40:36 pm »

Quote from: "Raumkraut"

Whenever I have to work with windows, it drives me nuts--sorry to the windows partisans out there, but I just don't understand how you get work done without going crazy.

What makes you think Windows doesn't drive us crazy?

I use Win XP untill ReactOS get a good release out.

SLAVE|Mietz · « **Reply #10 on:** May 12, 2006, 07:44:37 pm »

server: win2k
multimedia-pc: winxp
next server will be on linux

Draconishinobi · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2006, 02:56:41 am »

Fedora Core (4 on laptop, 5 on desktop)

Fluffy · « **Reply #12 on:** May 13, 2006, 04:29:52 am »

I use Linux only. My computer is self-assembled. I haven't bought Windows for it. I always find something better to spend my money on. But I like Windows.

I earn money fixing Windows problems.

I have 2 hard drives, 80 and 200GB. All my essential stuff is on the smaller drive, which is RAID-mirrored to the first portion of the bigger drive. Some of it is also encrypted using dmcrypt. The swap space is on both drives striped for higher performance. The rest of 200GB drive is for non-essential easy replaceable stuff.

I take the small drive with me when I go to work and leave the other one safe at home. The RAID just runs in degraded mode and resyncs when I'm back.

I boot unbootable PCs from my disk. It will boot on nearly any i386 compatible PC. From there I can run memtest, SMART tests to check for bad blocks, testdisk to recover partition table, sleuthkit tools to analyze and recover data from the filesystem, ddrescue to backup failing disks, offline NT registry editor to view and change registry settings, and many other tools. The only problem is NTFS write support. Captive is slow, and the native driver is still limited (but nearly there).

Booting from HD instead of some Linux LiveCD allows me to always have the best version of every tool, and newest kernel which supports every ethernet/SATA/IDE controller out there. The memory requirements are also lower.

My distribution is PLD Th, bleeding edge development branch. Its greatest advantage is that I don't need English dictionary to read or write to the mailing lists. Living on the edge means that things break and it drives me crazy sometimes, but I can live with it.

UnplayedNamer · « **Reply #13 on:** May 13, 2006, 12:47:36 pm »

Quote from: "Stof"

Am I the only Mandriva user ?

I used Mandriva for about a year before Ubuntu. LE2005 was a great release and worked beautfully for me. Kinda got interested in GNOME though and Mandriva went to that yearly release cycle...oh and the bloody MCC menu editor ...grrrrr!

AzaToth · « **Reply #14 on:** May 13, 2006, 06:48:58 pm »

I am usually using Linux, but at the moment. I'm using Microsoft windows on a hp Tablet PC. I don't think tremulous will work so good here using a pen on a touchscreen. (at the moment I'm writing this sitting on the toilet and writing ).

OverFlow · « **Reply #15 on:** May 13, 2006, 07:12:16 pm »

Tremulous builds used by unique IPs:

22355 win_mingw-x86
6754 linux-x86
118 win_msvc-x86
87 macosx-ppc
79 linux-x86_64
23 freebsd-x86
4 linux-ppc
1 win_msvc-x86-debug

I use windows xp by the way.

[HUN]N.M.I. · « **Reply #16 on:** May 13, 2006, 09:36:41 pm »

Let the cowards use Linux. Windows XP is the real OS for real men! Danger, adventure, openness! That's what hardcore users need!

SLAVE|Mietz · « **Reply #17 on:** May 13, 2006, 09:46:12 pm »

Quote from: "[HUN

N.M.I."]Let the cowards use Linux. Windows XP is the real OS for real men! Danger, adventure, openness! That's what hardcore users need!

Having Windows is like playing Diablo 2 on Hardcore mode, i like it

Its the hardcore leet-OS

phaedrus · « **Reply #18 on:** May 13, 2006, 10:33:04 pm »

Quote from: "[HUN

N.M.I."]Let the cowards use Linux. Windows XP is the real OS for real men! Danger, adventure, openness! That's what hardcore users need!

Someone hasn't used 'sed' before.

Jeff

Draconishinobi · « **Reply #19 on:** May 15, 2006, 04:47:23 am »

Quote from: "SLAVE|Mietz"

Quote from: "[HUN
N.M.I."]Let the cowards use Linux. Windows XP is the real OS for real men! Danger, adventure, openness! That's what hardcore users need!

Having Windows is like playing Diablo 2 on Hardcore mode, i like it
Its the hardcore leet-OS

1337 in that the 1337-ness of others (virus/worm/trojan makers, adware/spyware marketers, haxxors, and pretty much anyone else who wants to mess with you in any way whatsoever) is exercized upon you .... hardcore indeed ... masochistic :evil:

[db@]Megabite · « **Reply #20 on:** May 15, 2006, 08:55:53 am »

Funny that I did not have any virus/trojan/adware/spyware on my Windows box for years... maybe that I just know what I can savely click...

Would I not be the gamer I am I would still run gentoo at home... being the gamer I am and cedega sucking so much I stick to WinXP.

Running all servers on Debian, of course...

Cheers, Danny

Lava Croft · « **Reply #21 on:** May 15, 2006, 01:15:27 pm »

Win2k for the win!~ I also run a Damn Small Linux distro on a few boxes.

[db@]Megabite · « **Reply #22 on:** May 15, 2006, 01:50:48 pm »

I used Win2k until 4 months ago... I loved it (as far as one can "love" a Windows...

).
Just by then I got my new box and WinXP is finally mature enough for daily usage...

Cheers, Danny

nostril · « **Reply #23 on:** May 16, 2006, 01:54:42 pm »

Arch works for me. It's not bloated by unnecessary daemons and loads of other stuff that many other distros tend to install. Gentoo's real 1337 but compiling everything does not work for me.

I try to stay away from windows as much as possible. Neato for gaming ofcourse.

hodge · « **Reply #24 on:** May 18, 2006, 06:58:32 pm »

Any linux distro or freebsd. I can't stand windows.

Trainmaster · « **Reply #25 on:** May 18, 2006, 07:01:49 pm »

Windows 2000

UnplayedNamer · « **Reply #26 on:** June 08, 2006, 04:55:17 pm »

Thanks for all those who voted - I guess a 50:50 split between win:linux is a fitting result (completely ignoring ERR's more representative stats

..and the fact that half the linux users will be using different distros by now

)

Sandy · « **Reply #27 on:** June 08, 2006, 10:50:15 pm »

Puts hands up

I admit to being a "2 fast 2 furious" user (Gentoo). Although I generally don't fit the usual gentoo user profile of being a complete nobber.

benplaut · « **Reply #28 on:** June 09, 2006, 09:00:02 am »

i run Arch and Ubuntu.

Arch because it's up to date without much fiddling, Ubuntu becuase it has everything Arch does, plus a helluva good community.

2.6.16 kernel, InitNG, Openbox, everything but the kitchen sink custom-compiled.

I friggin hate gentoo, though :roll:

Sandy · « **Reply #29 on:** June 09, 2006, 09:05:55 am »

Quote from: "benplaut"

I friggin hate gentoo, though :roll:

You want a bit of a laugh? Go to http://funroll-loops.org/ (!)

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