What OS do you use?

[incogweedo]

Damn... it's been awhile since I've posted. Just wondering what operating system (and software) you guys use. Unleash your inner-nerd!

Me:
dualbooting Kubuntu 10.10 and Archlinux
Chromium - web browser
Gimp and Incscape - for image editing
OpenArena and Minecraft - games of choice
AmaroK - media player
python 2.7 - language of choice

I love open source stuff. And linux. I'd rather have a fast, stable, and reliable OS for free than give my money to Micro$oft (or Apple) for a slow, broken, and bloated one.

[Q]

Ubuntu 10.10
Chrome/Firefox - web browser
Gimp - for image editing
Gltron and Frozen Bubble - games of choice
Rhythmbox - media player

[Sosa]

Max OS X 10.6.5
Neooffice - the only opensource software I have at the moment

[Bright Banana Beard]

Win Vista (Yes, you read it right)

Firefox
Steam
The KMPlayer

[GPDP]

Windows 7 Ultimate

Courtesy of thepiratebay, of course.

[Q]

Windows 7 Ultimate

Courtesy of thepiratebay, of course.

I hope that one day MS gets its anti-pirating measures right, as that would force people to stay on a cheaper but more shitty version of Windows, and hence will incline them to look towards alternatives such as Linux.

Can't fail :cool:

[Sir Comradical]

Mac OSX Snow Leopard, Fedora Linux and Windows XP - the last two on Desktop Parallels. My web browsers are Google Chrome and Safari.

[Quail]

I use Vista, which I find quite irritating. Browsers I use are Firefox and Opera.

[Sasha]

OSX on my desktop, android on my smartphone.

[Zanthorus]

My OS is WinVista because I'm too lazy and don't have the requisite memory on my PC anyway to dualboot with Ubuntu.

Browser - Opera
Image editing - nothing like good ol' MS Paint
Media Player - Yep, you guessed it, Windows Media Player :D

inb4 Linux geeks flame me for not caring enough to replace the software that came with my computer.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Windows 7

Browser: Internet Explorer/Firefox
Image editing: Er, MS Paint I guess...
Media Player: Windows Media/GOM Player/VLC Player

I'm pretty much in the same boat as Zanthorus in that I'm really lazy and frankly don't give a damn about my current software.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Windows Vista... new tower came without an OS, but the guys who sold it left an unused Vista Serial sticker on the back of the case so I could get one for free no problem.

That said, I also couldn't give a shit. Actually I could since... I like windows... there I said it, fuck you. :lol:

Browser - Google Chrome
Editing - Photoshop CS5 portable
Media Player - Windows Media player or Winamp. I also use VLC sometimes since it runs MKV files.
Games of Choice? Vicky II and New Vegas

[bricolage]

I have Mac Tiger.
And I am on Firefox right now.
I only use things that have an animal in the name.

[kitsune]

Ubuntu 10.04 - I really want to set up Arch, but I haven't had time lately.
Firefox
Exaile - music player
Gimp and Inkscape

I need to play around with Chrome.

[DecDoom]

On my netbook:

Ubuntu 10.10
Google Chrome
Rhythmbox
Emesene

On my desktop:

Ubuntu 10.04/Windows 7 dual boot

That ubuntu install is horribly neglected, I hardly ever use my desktop computer and the few times I do, I end up using windows. Ubuntu 10.10 was a train wreck on my desktop.

[Q]

My OS is WinVista because I'm too lazy and don't have the requisite memory on my PC anyway to dualboot with Ubuntu.
Since when does Linux use more memory than Windows? :confused:

Perhaps you meant harddisk space?


That ubuntu install is horribly neglected, I hardly ever use my desktop computer and the few times I do, I end up using windows. Ubuntu 10.10 was a train wreck on my desktop.
What went wrong? I upgraded from 10.04 via apt-get and that went just fine for me.

[#FF0000]

Windows 7

Google Chrome
Mediamonkey for my music player because MusikCube isn't supported anymore.

[Ovi]

Mainly Ubuntu, though I dual boot with Vista for Internet Explorer (it's next to impossible to design a website that works on IE without a bunch of IE specific hacks); and no, I didn't pay for that crap.
Both Firefox and Chromium
DeaDBeeF (a great alternative for the currently best music player of them all, foobar2000, which is windoze only; DeaDbeeF will probably be better in the future since it's free software and even more modular)
Gimp



What went wrong? I upgraded from 10.04 via apt-get and that went just fine for me.
Truth is Ubuntu is the most unstable GNU/Linux distro I tried yet. Every single time I wanted to boot the latest version, the live cd was broken; 10.04 LTS is the only exception. I recently switched from Debian since I couldn't get my wireless driver working after 3 days of trying, and Ubuntu actually worked this time (and the proprietary driver was found automatically). If anyone wants to try Ubuntu, stick to the LTS, as long as it wasn't released yesterday, it will probably work just fine.

[Taikand]

Red Star OS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS)







Joking.
Win XP and Chrome.

[Ele'ill]

Linux - Ubuntu

[4 Leaf Clover]

Linux Mint

Firefox
Media Player
Rhythmbox
GIMP

[revolution inaction]

os - ubunto 9.10
music - rhythembox
video - smplayer with modification to play mkv's that have ordered chapters
feeds - liferea
browser - firefox
games - ps2, snes9x, pcsx
bittorrent - transmission

[Aloysius]

Ubuntu 10.04
Rhythmbox
Right now, I'm addicted to Minecraft.
GIMP and whatever else I feel like using...

The only major problem I've had with Lucid Lynx (the Ubuntu distro I use) is that when I try to log in on the computer in my room, it just goes back to the log-in screen. usually I just try to restart or fiddle around in Terminal until it starts. I've been using the dining room computer fr most stuff recently, as it has Minecraft installed and a sweet pair of headphones.

[x371322]

I use 'em all. OS X is my homeboy, Windows occasionally, but rarely, and I'm constantly switching back and forth to different Linux distros (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, to name a few). I'm a true geek at heart. Always will be. :blushing:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

OS: Windows 7 - came pre-installed on my super awesome gaming PC.

Music: Spotify Free, Winamp

Browser: Mozilla Firefox

Image Editing: MS Paint - I like it's simplicity.

Games: Right now I'm replaying Dungeon Keeper (emulated through DOSBOX using the D-Fend frontend) and mucking around with Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition (Monster Madness + StuffSwapper + Relics = FUN TIMES).

Torrenting: uTorrent

[Leonid Brozhnev]

OS: Windows 7 - came pre-installed on my super awesome gaming PC.

How super-awesome is super-awesome?

[eyedrop]

Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10.

Windows since I'm a Blizzard games fanboy, and Ubuntu since my graphic card drivers for windows won't work with OpenGL.

Browser: Chrome since it wastes the least space on the screen

Torrents: µTorrent

Games: Starcraft 2, and Heroes of Newerth to keep contact with some distant friends.

[Jazzratt]

Currently I'm using PCLinuxOS because I'm too lazy to switch to a less shit distro. Probably going to end up going (K)Ubuntu one of these days.

Browser: Firefox.
Torrents: Ktorrent
Gaming: FreeCiv and Fallout 2 (through WINE)
Reading: Okular. It's slow as molasses so any other good pdf reading software (that can be used to save editable pdfs) recomendations would be appreciated.

[x371322]

How super-awesome is super-awesome?

Super awesome is so last year. He should've opted instead for the super-mega-awesome edition. Now that's where it's at.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

Used to use Ubuntu, but about three days ago, every time I tried to boot it, my laptop restarted. Now I'm back to shitty windows.

For the record, I like Mac the most, as it is the easiest and simplest system. I like Ubuntu because its free, and I'd never pay for an operating system unless I had to.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

How super-awesome is super-awesome?

CPU: Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz Quad Core

Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard

Cooler: Corsair H50 CPU Cooler

Memory: Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel

Graphics: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 64MB Cache

Sound: 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)

If I had a copy of Crysis, I could run it at maximum settings. Apparently.

[incogweedo]

Ubuntu 10.04
Rhythmbox
Right now, I'm addicted to Minecraft.
GIMP and whatever else I feel like using...

The only major problem I've had with Lucid Lynx (the Ubuntu distro I use) is that when I try to log in on the computer in my room, it just goes back to the log-in screen. usually I just try to restart or fiddle around in Terminal until it starts. I've been using the dining room computer fr most stuff recently, as it has Minecraft installed and a sweet pair of headphones.




Minecrafting all the way!! the best part is Windows OS's are always thought as the "better" gaming OS's. This is a extremely not true. I could BARELY play minecraft alpha on small rendering distance. What about Cube:saurbraten and OpenArena? well those were only playable with minimum settings.

One day i finally decided to wipe my windows partition and just use the Arch one. Thats when i realized i could run minecraft flawlessly with far rendering and fancy graphics settings. Cube and OpenArena: I could finally run it very comfortably with decent settings. Let this be a lesson to you all: go linux/GNU/bsd or even solaris.

[Q]

Minecrafting all the way!! the best part is Windows OS's are always thought as the "better" gaming OS's. This is a extremely not true. I could BARELY play minecraft alpha on small rendering distance. What about Cube:saurbraten and OpenArena? well those were only playable with minimum settings.

One day i finally decided to wipe my windows partition and just use the Arch one. Thats when i realized i could run minecraft flawlessly with far rendering and fancy graphics settings. Cube and OpenArena: I could finally run it very comfortably with decent settings. Let this be a lesson to you all: go linux/GNU/bsd or even solaris.

Agreed. The only reason why Windows is a "better" gaming platform is because it has an easier platform to develop upon (DirectX, which is much more than just 3d rendering). There are projects to develop something similar for Linux, but it isn't as mature.

[StoneFrog]

This comp: Sidux(debian sid with extra stuff), and Vista.
Other comps: Slackware!!!!!! << best linux distro

Graphics: Gimp, MyPaint, PS, Blender.


I did go through the whole stage of only using Linux and all the sexy FOSS, but i grew to realized i still have to use windows in some capacity. Kinda a requirement still, had my battles configuring wine and an extra partition is so much easier.

Oh and props to Haiku and ReactOS, make sure to check those two projects! I am just amazed the ReactOS and the developers, and Haiku is the best bet at creating a substantial Desktop OS that is open source. *nix systems will never really be a great desktop OS for the masses, but Haiku has a chance.

[Honggweilo]

Ubuntu 10.10 (Win7 + MacOSX via Seamless Virtualbox)

[Leonid Brozhnev]

[Specs]

That is super-awesome, ever so slightly ahead of what I have right now. Yea, you could run Crysis on full, but you could probably install Crysis onto a potato and run it on full these days.

[Fawkes]

Windows 95 and AOL

[Il Medico]

Windows 7, Firefox, etc.

[Bright Banana Beard]

Windows 95 and AOL

Are you serious? Windows 95, what a nostalgic...

[Sosa]

my first computer ran windows 3.1 back when windows 98 was out

[graymouser]

My old laptop dual-boots Windows Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu (Hardy Heron). My desktop, which isn't even hooked up in my current apartment, is also Ubuntu. My new laptop is a MacBook Pro. At work I'm on a Windows XP box, which is kind of funny because I'm a programmer.

[revolution inaction]

Oh and props to Haiku and ReactOS, make sure to check those two projects! I am just amazed the ReactOS and the developers, and Haiku is the best bet at creating a substantial Desktop OS that is open source. *nix systems will never really be a great desktop OS for the masses, but Haiku has a chance.

OS X is *nix, its basically bsd.

[StoneFrog]

OS X is *nix, its basically bsd.

Yeah, mach kernel and BSD bits added to it. I was kinda implying FOSS systems, since most *nix open source projects are still designed with server use in mind.

[DecDoom]

What went wrong? I upgraded from 10.04 via apt-get and that went just fine for me.

I went with a fresh install, and the installer (with the bar-graph way of partitioning) straight up didn't work. A few minutes of fighting with it, and it tried to overwrite windows (which I, unfortunately, cannot do). I finally had to make the filesystems myself, and I forgot to make a swap partition, which made it pretty slow. I had a few other problems here and there, but I can't remember what in particular.

Also, I was so impressed with 10.10 on my netbook, I went and overwrote my perfectly good OpenSUSE 11.3 install on my desktop, which had everything customized exactly how I wanted it (over the course of a month), so I was pretty angry when 10.10 didn't turn out well. :(

[Q]

Oh and props to Haiku and ReactOS, make sure to check those two projects! I am just amazed the ReactOS and the developers, and Haiku is the best bet at creating a substantial Desktop OS that is open source. *nix systems will never really be a great desktop OS for the masses, but Haiku has a chance.
ReactOS and Haiku are still alpha stage projects though. Also, BeOS, the project that Haiku attempts to recreate, has died over a decade ago. I don't see it becoming a desktop OS again.

I disagree with you that Linux will never be a good desktop alternative. Ubuntu (for example) is clearly a lot better than Windows on several points:
- it's easy to use (consistent userinterfaces, etc)
- it does things for you (like installing wireless drivers by the click of a button)
- it has many thousands of applications that are free to use and can be centrally installed, deinstalled and upgraded via one software update utility.

The only major downside Linux still has, as far as I can see, is its lack of "big" games (there are a few though, but not many).


Yeah, mach kernel and BSD bits added to it. I was kinda implying FOSS systems, since most *nix open source projects are still designed with server use in mind.
So, Linux has not much potential because it is FOSS, yet Haiku and ReactOS (both FOSS projects) have potential because it's not *nix? Huh?

[black magick hustla]

dual booting ubuntu and windows 7

i need a unix based system for my work thats why i dual boot

[Red Commissar]

I have Windows 7 on my desktop, Ubuntu on a laptop of mine.

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

I have Windows 7... typically, I'm a linux version, but... HPs lovely design of audio hardware in their dv7-3165dx laptop results in problems with Alsa... the problem created is that the speakers don't mute when I use headphones unless I physically mute them myself in the alsa-mixer...

[Black Sheep]

Kubuntu 10.10 for anything but games. i used mandriva for about 1,5 year but it died a few days ago
WIn XP for games
photoshop 7
Firefox
VLC player
Cubase 4, guitar rig for music recording
C,C++ and haskell (yes,haskell)

Civ 5 and a little bit of new vegas at the moment