What Operating system do you Use, and Why?

No slander of other operating systems; Just why do you Like it?

I personally use Windows Vista and Windows 7. I Like windows 7 a lot better than my windows Vista, but still. I use both of them for compatability with the work I need to do for my networking degree.

Getting a Mac reasonably soon for said networking degree; but Looking forward to that as well.

Virtually run (or attempted to) FreeBSD, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE 11.1 and Crunchbang

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Permalink Reply by Paul on May 29, 2009 at 5:34pm: ok i use leopard as main it is good, fast and responsive, my 2 laptops have vista home basic and the other has home premium and i have used windows 7 and ubuntu on the one laptop as primary after i erased vista off. I'll like ubuntu a lot more when 9.10 is released, not keen on windows 7 however it is good. Vista has to be my fave atm probly becuase i put it back on the laptop yesterday and havent used vista in a while; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by pimpsahoy on May 29, 2009 at 6:07pm: My favorite OS is OS X, but I'm a gamer and I can't use it as much as I'd like to.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Inspector Gadget on May 29, 2009 at 6:11pm: right now im using windows xp because it lays things out better for me and doesn't have any bloat. im considering getting a mac book though. i love osx but its not practical or legal to put a hackintosh on my pc. considering most the work i do is best on windows but for an internet laptop a base white macbook would be great. i will NOT get a netbook. they're cheap for a reason. only have 9 inch screens, 1gb of ram, come on.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tyler Brown on May 29, 2009 at 7:08pm: Well, I love the absolute power behind **NIX based operating systems, but webkit browsers kinda suck on Linux at the moment, among other things I like to use (my TV Tuner card and mIRC.)

I've been looking at getting a Mac - Because OS X has Powerful UNIX backend, with an interface that can cater to the New User and the Power User Alike.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Matt DeFazio on June 1, 2009 at 12:12pm: Word. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pedro Remedios on May 30, 2009 at 4:10pm: I use Windows because I'm not rich.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by soho2014 on August 16, 2009 at 9:16am: Linux is free, and if the truth were known, installing some Distros are even easier and less time consuming to install than Windows. And they play nice in the sand box, so it's easy to set them up to dual boot and leave a Windows install untouched. But Windows won't do the same, so Windows has to be installed first, or else it destroys the GRUB menu of what OS you want to run.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Matt DeFazio on June 1, 2009 at 12:12pm: I'm switching to Mac OS X as my primary OS, if only to expand my horizons in my choice of operating system after using XP, Vista, and Ubuntu. Not only that, but I simply love the look and feel of the Mac environment, and really feel that I'll be getting a lot of use out of the platform.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Streetking on June 1, 2009 at 12:19pm: on the laptop i am currently using, i have xp, on my desktop at my appartment, i have Vista Ultimate with W7 and Linux running on VM Ware; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Johannes S. on June 2, 2009 at 2:34am: Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.7) - Powerful, yet simple to use. My personal favourite. I use this most of the time.

Ubuntu 9.04 with some netbook remix's components - lightweight, works well on my netbook. It's okay, could be better. Almost as good as leopard on the power part, but usage simplicity is poor.

Vista SP2 - Just testing, not my favourite.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pj221 on June 2, 2009 at 6:23pm: My favorite OS is ubuntu but I am running vista home premium on my laptop because i am a casual gamer. On the computer i am building, I am putting Vista ultimate. I considered ubuntu but the one thing that stops me is gaming.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pantelis Zembashis on June 3, 2009 at 9:55am: Windows because it is The os of choice for 95% of people with computers and much cheaper than mac

Linux because it is open source and we all love open source; ▶ Reply to This