Your OS of Choice?

OS OF CHOICE???

  • WINDOWS

    Votes: 76 59.8%

  • MAC

    Votes: 39 30.7%

  • LINUX

    Votes: 33 26.0%
  • Total voters
    127
  • Poll closed .


roclafamilia said:
Any specific reason you use only windows?
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Too many years of experience with .NET. I usually want to hack on stuff and make them do things they weren't originally designed to do (or build them better from scratch) and the opportunity cost of switching to a different stack didn't justify it. The cost difference between the .NET stack and the LAMP stack is pretty negligible these days, especially for the types of projects I prefer, and the value I retain by being able to leverage my coding skills more than completely closes the gap.

I do need to make a small correction, I do have an old Dreamhost account that has a wp blog on it that I've been meaning to show some TLC so I'm not 100% .NET but for all intents and purposes I am.
 
Rexibit said:
I fell in love with Linux Mint a couple weeks ago. Once I figure out how to get VirutalBox to boot up my current Windows 7 partition on it so that I can run a few programs that won't work with WINE it'll all be good.
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I set this up once, a long time ago, with vmware, it worked really well --
To briefly summarize, I searched for "make a physical partition into a vmdk" for instructions how to turn my bootable Vista partition into a .vmdk (vmware disk file metadata); the metadata file you generate instructs VMware to read the partition data as a virtual machine.

End result: I was dual booting Vista/Ubuntu, and I could log into Ubuntu, then launch VMWare Vista with all my apps installed. :borat_very_nice:
 
Windows xp sp2 anyone? I'm using it for my main PC. Had issues with anything else, didn't want to mess around.

Also use windows 2008 for servers.
 
Windows XP SP3 - For main box. Gaming/Slangin/Porn

Slackware Linux - This is my Play around linux box.

Laptop 1 - Fedora - Play around linux on the go

Laptop 2 - Backtrack4 - My 7337 H4x02Z box. But seriously...I listen to people bluetooth conversation in starbucks with this. It's my favorite.
 
Win7 Black for the Desktops and then Ubuntu for the Laptops. Ubuntu works way better on the older machines and makes them like brand new. Plus having my kids learn those 2 OS's will definitely be useful as they start to get older.
 
I'm on Ubuntu but not real happy with the latest version. It has bloated out like crazy, relative to older versions -- I'm on Lynx now, and started out on Fawn. Been sampling some other distros lately but don't have a lot of time for it unfortunately.


Frank
 
uplinked said:
I set this up once, a long time ago, with vmware, it worked really well --
To briefly summarize, I searched for "make a physical partition into a vmdk" for instructions how to turn my bootable Vista partition into a .vmdk (vmware disk file metadata); the metadata file you generate instructs VMware to read the partition data as a virtual machine.

End result: I was dual booting Vista/Ubuntu, and I could log into Ubuntu, then launch VMWare Vista with all my apps installed. :borat_very_nice:
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Thanks. I'll try it with VMWare when I get more time. I spent well over 40 hours on that ( :supersadface: ) a couple weeks ago and had to get some work done, so went back to leaving Windows7 logged in full time.

I could get it to start booting up Windows, then it'd fail saying that it couldn't access the boot drive or something and wanted me to insert the Windows CD.

I lubbers the multiple work spaces. I installed the Macbuntu theme on it so I could get some neat docking access and it worked awesome.

Since I did a SP1 upgrade on Windows 7 yesterday I no longer see anything but the Windows partition lol. So gonna have to do some hacking to show them when I get around to trying again.

guerilla said:
When you figure this out, tell me, so I can do it too. Pls.
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You will be the first on my CB mailing list for the eBook. :p

J/K
 
Windows & Linux.

I love Linux more but have to use windows as most of the IM tools will not work on Linux.
 
I have always used Windows for desktops/notebooks and Linux for servers.

DanGlobalizer said:
Windows by default, but thinking of splurging on a Mac laptop
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I am also considering picking up a macbook pro in the next few days to try it out and see if I like it. I see many people using them in this industry and the battery life seems to be great compared to other notebooks from what I have read. I don't think I have ever had a laptop last much past the 3-3.5 hour point on battery.
 
I use MAC on 2 machines and windows on one...only because I have to. All of my servers are linux
 
I live on OSX on my MB, but today installed Ubuntu onto my old IBM T41. I still use XP SP2 on my PC desktop, but that hasn't been turned on for months, much like the IBM, hence moving Ubuntu in. (I am quietly pissed off that I have a few years left on my now unused Eset licence though.)
 
Rexibit said:
Thanks. I'll try it with VMWare when I get more time. I spent well over 40 hours on that ( :supersadface: ) a couple weeks ago and had to get some work done, so went back to leaving Windows7 logged in full time.

I could get it to start booting up Windows, then it'd fail saying that it couldn't access the boot drive or something and wanted me to insert the Windows CD.

I lubbers the multiple work spaces. I installed the Macbuntu theme on it so I could get some neat docking access and it worked awesome.

Since I did a SP1 upgrade on Windows 7 yesterday I no longer see anything but the Windows partition lol. So gonna have to do some hacking to show them when I get around to trying again.
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It's been a long time, but I think I ran into the same issues at first (and spent about as much time on it); I did it in this order to get it to work --

vmdk physical drive - Google Search

From a windows install
1) Install Ubuntu into a second partition
2) Install VMWare
3) Create VMDK pointing to partition 1, if you launch VMWare, it fails with boot error
4) Windows CD, restore the boot loader and all the boot files, wipe out Grub
5) Linux CD, restore Grub, add Windows entry.
 
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Windows 7 is my choice, because I have some software to use that doesn't work on MAC. I have Macbook Pro, but I am half of the time using it as a windows machine because of capability issues.
 
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