Which OS do you use, and why? - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

OS X. because simple is best.... Digging around for .dll FTL - Mona Nomura

Mac OS X at home because I love Unix but got tired of trying to make my soundcard work correctly with Linux. (I've since come to love OS X in its own right: it's a very well designed, consistent OS. And I heart Objective-C/Cocoa). Windows XP at home. Because we're a Microsoft shop through and through. - James (@willia4)

Windows XP because it came with my laptop and I already had Linux desktop when I got it. I also do music, so I had Pro Tools on here at one point. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Vista. 'coz Visual Studio rocks, and I can run pretty much every app on earth :D Digging for dlls ftl ('coz, in my 8 year stint with Windows, that has never happened) :D - Yuvi

Windows XP Pro fo sho. - Louie

Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. As long as I can run K-Meleon and Vim, I'm happy. - Morton Fox

Vista on my desktop computer, OS X on my laptop, and XP/Topologilinux dual-boot on my secondary desktop computer. - Vincent X

Yuvi: so when you uninstall programs.. you just... trust everything's removed??? - Mona Nomura

Linux. Because I believe in Free Open Source Software philosophy, and it's a great OS, sometimes I use windows in a VM for university stuff. - Hassan Ibraheem

right now at this desk... Vista, laziness - Cody Heitschmidt

Windows XP, because it does everything I need. - richrecruiter

OS X - Leslie Poston

@Mona - I do. Process Explorer ftw! Added: SysInternals ftw! - Yuvi

MacOS X .. i just converted.. why? because I don't need to think which OS i'm using.. i'm just doing my stuff and it's there - Naor Mark

o rly? I just drag and drop =D - Mona Nomura

@Mona - besides, I ain't rich :D (Edit - Stupid Argument. WTF was the author thinking?) - Yuvi

Windows XP at work, XP and Tiger at home. Building a box to run Ubuntu at home, too. - Ha3rvey (not Akiva)

I use the drag-to-the-trash method for uninstalling apps, but I'm sure there's stuff lingering in the Library. I just don't care much. - James (@willia4)

@Mona - besides, I don't think Drag and Drop does what it is supposed to do. *Tells himself to stfu 'bout Mac OS X 'coz he hasn't even seen it* - Yuvi

Laptop<XP), UMPC (Linux), DeskTop(XP), TigerBox(BSD/Unix) - Peter Dawson

Vista at home on desktop and tablet, Server 2008 configured to look and feel like Vista at work. Why? Because of what Yuvi said. Also, Server 2008 makes for an awesome workstation. - Jordan Hofker

OS X. I think that answers both parts of that question - Christopher Harley

Ubuntu.. For the flexibility, the community & the security - embee

OS X on personal laptop, WinXP on work laptop, WinXP/Vista dual-boot desktop at home when I need to do .NET dev. - ronin

I use Linux because I believe in open-source, and because I don't like digging for DLLs. Instead, I dig for RPMs! - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

@possible248: Digging for RPMs ftl :P Heard apt was good? (curious, I like the concept of centralized repositries, and love easy_install for python) - Yuvi

Various Linux distros with KDE. Linux is great for my relatively older machines, supports a wide variety of hardware that is no longer supported by other OSes, has much customizability, is great on RAM usage, the KDE desktop is much more usuable than any other I've tried (much more than Explorer), freedom, it has the applications that I love, and so on and so on. - Jake (aka Jawee)

Actually, I only really need to dig for RPMs on OpenSUSE. Fedora and Ubuntu have the repositories that I need. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I only use DOS 6.1 cause I'm badass like that. - Internet's Tad

@possible248: OpenSUSE has the worst selection in the repositories. Ubuntu and Mandriva are both great (my main Linux distros atm). - Jake (aka Jawee)

Ubuntu because its simpler than Mona N :) - Fred Grott

@jawee: Go KDE! - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Vista Ultimate and XP because that I'm a Microsoft chick. But I want a Macbook Air for when you need a little internet machine. Can't afford it though. Buy me one? - Sarah Perez

Vista x64 at work, XP at home on the desktop, Leopard/XP on my MacBook at home. - Jonas, Leper of FF

OS X on the primary workstation and the laptop. Ubuntu Linux on the backup machine and the kids' computer. - Chris Baskind

Vista x64, eh? Are the driver issues gone? Is it safe? :D (I seriously want to know) - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

@chrisbaskind: Do the kids like Ubuntu? - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

@jawee: I think I'll go install Mandriva right now. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn - ::Kristen::

Vista came on the laptop. OpenSuSE on desktop. Thinking about KDE 4.1 - Victor Ryden

got KDE 4.1 running on Fedora 9 ... all I can say is wow! very very nice - John Blanton from twhirl

OS X at home and Vista at work. OS X is much better! :) - Peter

I use Mac OS X and Vista on the PC. OS X is much better - Scott

Ubuntu, because it works better on my old dinosaur of a computer than XP ever did. - Steven Perez

The basic idea behind KDE is choice. GNOME's philosophy is that the user cannot be trusted with decision. KDE still isn't that tough to use. I love it. :D - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

As a work at home freelance software developer and tech writer, I have to go where there is demand or else I go unemployed. So I use Win XP, Vista, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS and SuSE), Solaris and Mac OS X. For my day to day personal use, I choose Mac OS X. - Dread Pirate PJ

I just don't get how Mac OSX users use the dock. A task bar just makes more sense (to me). - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

MacOS X, with a RedHat Enterprise system to ssh into. - DGentry

Vista & Ubuntu - Igor Poltavskiy

All of them :) Proudly platform agnostic. - TDavid

OS X. - Sally Church

@possible248: I'll ignore your flame bait and mention that on Linux, I prefer KDE over GNOME, for the same reason you mention. :-) I haven't tried 4.1 yet, probably will try to upgrade this weekend. - Dread Pirate PJ

Oh, and I don't use the dock, I use Quicksilver. - Dread Pirate PJ

OS X. Lazy...it's preinstalled on my Mac. - Mitchell Tsai

Mac OS X and Windows XP - Bwana ☠

Linux (Ubuntu) primarily, but also some OpenSolaris. I won't get into the GNOME/KDE debate -- those of us in what is sadly the OS minority need to unite for the greater good. :-) I have to use Windows for some of my DayJob tasks. - Joanmarie

XP, Vista, Ubuntu. Vista because it came with the laptop, XP by choice, Ubuntu for server or network play. - xero

@possible248: The kids are very comfortable on Ubuntu. They found it intuitive, and I didn't have to train them on basic desktop stuff at all. - Chris Baskind from NoiseRiver

OS X FTW why - because I love uncle Steve - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Hehe. Flamebait. I think Linus Torvalds backs up my point pretty well (http://mail.gnome.org/archive...). I find the responses of the Mac users interesting. I love the shiny look of Apple hardware, but haven't been able to bring myself to cough up the change for one. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Linuxes, Windows, OSX, as different needs arise. - John LeMasney

Ubuntu Linux (desktop) and Debian GNU/Linux (server) because I love apt-get. Windows XP inside of a VMWare-Player guest... does that count? lol - Czar

vista... work-related and it's great for gaming. - Alan Le

vista. - Alexandru Savu

Vista, seriously, I like it. XP at work, no suprise we just upgraded from W2K. - Eric @ CS Techcast