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3020 No. 3020
What do you use? Linux? Windows? MAC? Or Other.
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>> No. 3021
Linux, good sir.
I definitely need to hit BSD up soon.
>> No. 3022
Win7 dual booted w/ Linux, though Linux is largely useless until I get my internet situation resolved.
>> No. 3023
Just linux.
>> No. 3025
Win7. I tried Ubuntu for a short time, but I don't really have much use for it. Still, I keep a copy on disk, just in case.
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Grew up on MS '95,
Moved on to XP, Got a hackintosh, moved onto OS X (got an iMac too), attempted to dual-boot 7, failed.
Got a 7 laptop.
I sit my laptop next to my iMac and use Synergy to KVM between the two over wireless.
I have to say though, 7 is a troll over networks. XP can tan, OS X, to many people's surprise, is great for it, espesh with the built-in Apache server (I work with for the internets).
>> No. 3032
Windows for most games.
Linux for anything that isn't a game and some things that are games.
>> No. 3037
i use windows for some general surfing,photoshop and foobar,everything else i use a mixture of backtrack4 and arch linux :)
>> No. 3039
I work in IT so I use windows because I have to use windows, because everyone else has windows and i need to stay familiar with it.

I would Rather run Ubuntu though, had it for a while but windows dosen't like sharing program files with it.
>> No. 3053
Casuals who use M.A.C. don't know how to download messages onto a forum because theres no app for it
>> No. 3111
Mint flavored Linux, ubuntu
>> No. 3165
been using dsl recently.
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

 Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

 There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>> No. 3186
Win7. I don't use my PC for anything besides games.

Sometimes if I want to...say visit a site I suspect may be malware infested, I'll boot up an Ubuntu Virtual Machine and use that.
>> No. 3187
I mostly use Debian Testing but I also have Windows 7 for when I feel like playing games. Thinking about trying out Slackware again since 13.37 just released. I tried 13.1 and -Current before and while I had no problems with the system itself I ran into annoying KDE bugs that seemingly no one has ever heard of such as folder properties being wrong (not all of them, just some of them) and when trying to transfer those from an external HDD, not everything transfers. I guess I could try to get used to XFCE. I'm used to Gnome and I know about Gnome Slack Build but Gnome 3 looks like shit and I'll probably abondon Gnome when it comes out anyway.
>> No. 3214
I have a laptop with win7, mostly for gaming, videos, etc.

Then I found this old Thinkpad R30 with Windows 2000 that needed a new battery, and then found most of the files were corrupt, so wiped and booted it with Ubuntu. Works fine now, and I mainly use it for programming (I like clicky keyboard) or as a dual monitor for my other laptop.
>> No. 3311
Linux and an old G4 Cube with OSX.
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I use fucking Linux. My chronology >
WinXP > Mandrake > Suse > Debian > Ubuntu > Gentoo > Arch > Debian
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