What Operating System?

[Deleted User]

Work - Windows 7 with most eye-candy turned off and made to work a bit like Vista
Home - Vista
Mobile - Android FroYo

Although i do tend to also use AIX and VMS at work. Where's the other option? Some fools might be using the Amiga Workbench for all you know

[Deleted User]

Windows 7 x64 mainly, but I do use a lot of RHEL at work.

debitcardmayhem

1,2,3,4 and 6 32/64bit Starter/Home/Pro/NRM/Desktop/Server oh and Solaris and [STRIKE]Opensolaris[/STRIKE]

kabayiri

Occasionally, I use win 7 64, but most of the time and for work related stuff I run a debian host with a mixture of XP and Linux virtual machines.

Running XP in a Virtual Machine I find is a useful approach. I can isolate the machine; it doesn't hold any important data files itself; and if something does go wrong when testing software which blows up, you can just restore a new copy from disk.

With major speed advances in PC hardware, I am surprised that virtualisation hasn't made it into more mainstream use.

S0litaire

Running Ubuntu on my laptop/ and Ubuntu +XBMC on my desktop
Also got Android Mobile

atrixblue.-MFR-.

ive used may OS and keep returning to win7 64bit.

Darksun

I dualboot Win 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, but almost exclusively use the latter. My Wife is just about to install Jolicloud on her netbook, might be interesting to have a look how it performs

BlueC

Fedora 13 on my MacBook when at home, OSX in work (not through choice), and Fedora 14 on my HTPC.

Must say I do quite like what I've seen of Windows 7 though.

Edit: CentOS 5.x on all my web servers and WebOS on my phone. I like Linux!

GunJack

work desktop and lappy - XP Pro. home desktop - XP home. Kid's lappys - XP home. my lappy......fingers-down-throat-Vista h.p.

..and puppy linux if I need to to boot into something smaller, although hirens bootCD has miniXP on it, which may cast puppy into the bin, even if the desktop in it is cute

Whoever said about XP being MS's best to date, I'd be inclined to agree, but haven't had a full play with 7 yet....maybe when work upgrades I'll get chance.

Hammyman

WhiteChristmas wrote: »

In years to come, I suspect XP will by recognised as Microsoft's finest hour.

In almost every case (Vista to 7 being the sole exception), upgrading your operating system without upgrading the hardware will result in worse performance.

Stick with XP until your system dies.

Windows 7 is already, actually.

XP has more holes than swiss cheese. Only a moron would choose Windows XP over Windows 7.