After having several friendly (hah!) discussions about why I like OSX, I thought I’d ask what ya’ll use at least once or twice a week. Here’s mine.
Windows XP - still my main OS, since I have to fix it every day for clients.
OS-X - still learning and tweaking it on my wife’s 17" Imac. Waiting to see what Apple will offer in the new Intel-chip powermacs. (Expandable desktops.)
Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” - Digging deeper into this all the time on an old P4 2.6C system.
Windows 98 - play older games once or twice a week.
Windows 2000 - still pretty solid and several clients use it.
All are networked for high speed internet and share a network storage drive for easy file sharing. So that’s a measly 5 OS’s for me. How about you?
XP Pro, XP MCE, XP Home on my work, gaming, and laptop rigs respectively.
Before I bought my house I roomed with 2 other dudes (insert joke). We had a home network set up, which was funny to do, because I had XP, one guy had Me, and the other 2K. Many Bothans died and I learned much about their subtle differences that day.
XP Pro (gaming box), Slackware (server), and OS X (laptop) at home.
At work, the boxes in my office are XP Pro, Server 2003, and Fedora Core 4, though I sometimes have to fiddle with some other systems, including Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and z/OS.
I pretty much use XP everywhere now. I have dabbled with lunix since '97 or so, but I have never been able to stand it as a primary machine. When I was a sysadmin Knoppix came in handy regularly.
I can’t afford a Mac. Of course, I won’t be able to afford Vista either.
In college (M.S. in CompSci) I used shell accounts to Solaris, Fedora, and Gentoo boxes. Now that I’m out doing IT stuff, I just work on an SAP terminal most of the time. I dunno what the backend for that is.
