Tell me which one you use and why.
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Jizg
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Loadsgood
What is your answer?
Windows, because I don't understand how to use Linux, and I can't be bothered to learn it.
I don't need to learn something that isn't going to help me do something I can't already do,
Loadsgood. -
Jizg wrote:Hi, Im doing a survey. Tell me which one you use and why. Ill stop bumping should you do so.
Both. Occassionally.
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Both, XP for the most part but I've a couple of distros of Linux running in Virtual PC.
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Tensor
Im in yr house upgrading yr family
Jizg wrote:Hi, Im doing a survey. Tell me which one you use and why. Ill stop bumping should you do so.
Dear Channel 9 - for your birthday, I'd like a way of sorting posts by date of last post by person I dont want to ignore.
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Windows XP, although I have a dual boot with Mandrake Linux which I rarely use. Don't know where to start learning how to use it!
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100% Windows since 2000. Before that, I ran a Linux (RedHat 5.2) box as a shared server among some of my friends, providing file storage, DNS, DHCP, various other services (including bnetd for a while). It also provided some support for programming classes which were supposed to be performed using the University's Sun workstations, where the environment or libraries did not already have a Windows port.
I used to be vaguely supportive of Linux back when I was still using Windows 9x. 9x was occasionally still unreliable. Once I started using NT 4.0, though, things changed. I had a reliable Windows system still compatible with many - almost all - of the things I wanted to do.
A particular revelation was Torvalds' original pronouncements about USB support, something that's only just barely snuck into kernel 2.6. In his original design - I'm not sure if this has now changed - device names for USB devices would not be stable; adding new devices might cause existing devices to be renamed. Another was a series of repeating, recurring IDE disk corruption issues that friends experienced with early releases of kernel 2.2, even with the ext2 file system. Finally I started to look into how Linux was tested before a kernel release, and discovered that it wasn't. I periodically look to see whether they've instituted any kind of QA system, but frankly I'm happy over on this side.
It possibly helps that I am a commercial software developer and am interested in both systems which work without heroic validation efforts on my part, and in sustaining the market for commercial software development efforts. I can't currently think of an alternate career; some days - many days - software engineering is a grind, but there are days when it's worthwhile and enjoyable. -
I use WinXP most of the time, becasue it is a stable system with a lot of functionality and because i'm running visual studio on it. And because there is a lot of high quality application for this system.
I also use Unix(R) like system. But I don't use Linux. I use FreeBSD instead. In my opinion, FreeBSD is much better designed than linux and it is (i know i shouldn't say it) a real unix(R). I can run any linux application on FreeBSD if i need since there is Linux Binary Compatibility. -
Sven Groot
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.
I use both XP and Linux (Fedora Core 3), but Windows for 95% of the time, cause I like it better.
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harumscarum
out of memory
which one we use for what?
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Linux.
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Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X on an almost daily basis.
Other stuff when I get time to play. -
Sampy
And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide
Beer28 wrote:Linux, for the future when future versions of windows are completely locked down like alkatraz, and there are no more standards.
Windows. I also work at Microsoft to make sure that the above will never happen. The Channel9 team and you guys out there are making that possible. -
amotif
No Silver Bullet
Jizg wrote:Hi, Im doing a survey. Tell me which one you use and why. Ill stop bumping should you do so.
(Emphasis mine.) Blackmail, eh?
Work: XP and RH Linux
Home: various shades of XP (including MCE and Tablet)
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darklotus
Carpe Noctum
I will continue to use Windows until it wants my first born child to prove i have a legit copy. I dont think thats too far away....
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
Short answer "windows" with a "but"
Long answer "windows" with an "if"
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Sampy
And I come back to you now - at the turn of the tide
Beer28 wrote:The fact that people have an alternative that is getting to be extremely usable for desktop machines must be extremely discomforting to windows dominance.
Maybe this will push windows to follow consumer demand instead of trying to define it in the future.
Bring it on!
The result will be better software for me so I welcome the challenge. -
Charles
Welcome Change
Windows for work
Windows at home
Windows on vacation
Windows alone
I've been experimenting with various other operating systems for academic reasons. The more I learn about Windows (and the more you will learn over the coming months should you decide to stay tuned to Channel 9), the more I realize how impressive it really is, from a technological point of view.
One thing is for sure in my humble opinion, the NT Kernel architects should be very proud. It's such a modular kernel and oh so asynchronous.
Charles
EDIT: I should say too that the Linux kernel is pretty impressive as well. I need to learn more about it. Thing is, Windows is SO much more than the kernel, but of course the kernel makes the fluffy and useful stuff possible.
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