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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 11:46 AM
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Poll question: Operating System Poll
What are you using right now?
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 11:48 AM
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1. Other: What's an operating system?
:rofl:
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 11:49 AM
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2. Primarily Linux, but other was most appropriate. Although, I suppose
it would depend upon the interpretation of 'using' and 'right now'. I'm typing this in Linux, but I'm doing some coding on an Oberon machine and I have an Atari 8-bit running a game too.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 11:50 AM
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3. How about multiple ones?
Edited on Mon May-18-09 11:51 AM by HopeHoops
Mac OSX, OS9
Win Vista, XP, 98SE, 2000 Pro
Linux (although that box is not deployed right now).
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 11:52 AM
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5. what are you using right now, i.e. on what OS are you reading this?
For multiple boot machines, what are you booted into right now?
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 11:59 AM
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6. Oh, right NOW - actually, I'm typing on a Vista laptop but checking news on a Mac Mini (OS X).
I've also got work sitting on the Mac OS 9 laptop which I'm reluctantly going to have to return to after this post.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 11:51 AM
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4. I'm really enjoying Windows7
And don't mind that I've essentially committed myself to buying the Ultimate version upon release.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:05 PM
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9. Windows 7 has impressed me thoroughly.
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:01 PM
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7. Windows 98 was the most stable of the Windows... nt.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:05 PM
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8. XP with the NTFS file system was way more stable.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:15 PM
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10. When XP came out I'd have Quake3, 3DS Max, Photoshop and winamp all running
This was unheard of with 98. That much graphics power required was an instead BSOD
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:39 PM
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12. 98 was crap. 98 SE(special edition), however, was the most stable until XP SP2. :)
BIIIIG difference between 98 and 98 SE. 98 was, like Vista, released before they'd ironed the bugs out. So the second release, 98 SE, was with most of the bugs fixed. :)

I had a system running 98 SE until the hardware on that system died.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:41 PM
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13. Screw that. Windows ME was da BOMB
:hide:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:47 PM
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14. ...
:spray:

:rofl:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:47 PM
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15. No, Microsoft BOB was da bomb!
:rofl:
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 01:16 PM
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16. I've missed all the fun releases
My (home) Windows timeline: 3.11 => 98 => XP. No Bob or Me.
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 12:17 PM
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11. Linux Mint!!!
http://www.linuxmint.com/
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 01:29 PM
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17. So many distros, so little time
It looks like what I've done to ubuntu. I got rid of one of the panels, keeping just the bottom one. Collapsed the three menus (aps, places, system) into the 'main menu.' I know Mint is more than just a theme but I do appreciate a clean desktop:
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 01:35 PM
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18. Every time I see Linux Mint, I think of Atari MiNT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT
http://sparemint.org/sparemint/
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tabbycat31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 02:15 PM
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19. other
2 computers.
My desktop is XP
My laptop is Vista

i have no issues with vista
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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 03:50 PM
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20. XP, but not by choice.
I don't own this laptop so can't install linux.

Q3JR4.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-18-09 03:52 PM
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21. Max OSX 10.5 Leopard...
and the iPhone OSX as well.
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