What is the OS of choice?

[DJAd]

After seeing codes "post yer desktop" it seems a fair few people are still packing Windows XP as their main firearm.

Just wondered what the majority here use. Now lets keep this just "personal computer" not work, school whatever.

I'm still using XP as my primary OS and dual booting with Windows 7. I don't think I'll will migrate for a while as only got laptop here so performance is limited.

7 does run great on my wee netbook though, but tbh there ain't anything in 7 that makes me go "WOW!!!".

[tombott]

Various flavours of Ubuntu 9.04 on all my home PC's and laptops.
This includes my wife and sons machines.
There is nothing I need Windows for, everything I do can be done under Linux.

[DJAd]

Yeah but Tom, you are different from all the other boys and girls.

[muttleymacclad]

Used to be XP, never liked Vista but Windows 7 all the way now.

MML

[stimpy]

7 and OS X as I have a PC & a Mac at home.

Voted for 7 purely because I used the PC last this morning.

[littlebilly1]

7

[Eazi]

I was running Win2k8 with Hypervisor and then running XP, Vista and 7 in virtuals but the lack of USB in the virtuals was a pain in the ass and 2008 really doesn't have too much USB support either.

I found that I always seemed to drop back to the Vista machine so I rebuilt with vista a couple of weeks ago.

When Win 7 is released I'll probably go dual boot for a while and see how I feel.

[Over Carl]

I would like to say 7 followed by xp, but the reality is that I forget to press the button at just the right time, end up with xp and can't be arsed rebooting.

Before anyone asks, I know how to change to boot order, it's kept that way for when my mum occasionally uses it, and I get bored of waiting for the menu as my pc takes forever to post.

[koola2]

XP as it is too much hassle getting the wife to use anything else and now the children are using it more and more it is easier to have the same OS as school.

[littlebilly1]

XP as it is too much hassle getting the wife to use anything else and now the children are using it more and more it is easier to have the same OS as school.

i thought i was gonna have this trouble with my wife and kid when i put 7 on our family computer, but i must say they just got straight in to it and it's like they were always using it so much so that i had to install 7 on my sons lappy "dad can't i have windows 7 on my laptop i don't like xp anymore" little shit's only just gone 7

[wakadoo]

i have just gone through the OP systems as they have come out..

still on vista for now as its setup well and i have a few full backups to rely on from the last couple of years, i have tried win 7 and i will slowly migrate to it as the programs i want to use become available for it..

xp and vista have both been good for me and i hope win 7 will be as well.

[Over Carl]

i thought i was gonna have this trouble with my wife and kid when i put 7 on our family computer, but i must say they just got straight in to it

I have to say I was shocked with the same thing with my mum and vista, but I'm not letting her near anything that's a beta. I'm sure she would find a way to make my pc explode if I let her use 7.

[steve10574]

ya W7 for me would like to try the apple OS but only have pc i know some people have got this working does it work on any pc now?

[Greyfox]

Still using xp pro but will soon be making the move over to 7.

[inspectercoley]

I have always been a massive XP man myself just cos got so used to it and it runs nice and fast.
If it had of had direct x 10 then I would probably still have it now.

Now on Windows 7 64bit and am liking it to be honest.
Doesn't seem too slow and most things work as expected and like how quick it is to install and almost everything works out of the box drivers wise.

The resolutions seem to be a lot better as well on things like icons so when you on super high resolutions you don't have to have tiny icons which is nice as well.

Like Ubuntu as well but you can't play games on that which is annoying.

Only problems I have had are can't get daemon tools to install and a few random issues that I can live with.

[DJAd]

I would like to say 7 followed by xp, but the reality is that I forget to press the button at just the right time, end up with xp and can't be arsed rebooting.

LOL! I know that feeling well mate. Pretty much the same for me.

The other reason is some of the drivers still ain't about for my system and as it's not final. I really cannot be arsed to install everything and give it a proper blast. I will deff try out the final version on a dual boot when it lands.

[neo2810]

LOL! I know that feeling well mate. Pretty much the same for me.

The other reason is some of the drivers still ain't about for my system and as it's not final. I really cannot be arsed to install everything and give it a proper blast. I will deff try out the final version on a dual boot when it lands.

I've upgraded everything to Windows 7 now and barr one or 2 tweaks, everything works on it except for Carbonite online backup and Syncmaster Pro (for which I run a Virtual PC with XP extension and that works spot on).

[B B Leo]

xp its the only one ive never had trouble with

[Mickey]

If SAM would work on 7 id install it tomorrow, but XP pro works fine for me and all SoftWare runs smoothly without fecking about with compat modes etc etc

[liveseytowers]

I'm on XP at home as my PC is too old to run Vista and I can't be botherd with rebuilding windows 7. I'm going to get a new PC once 7 is officially released.

Just built my work PC with Vista Business on Tuesday and i'm thinking about going back to XP. My dual screen graphics card seems to be really struggling despite having the latest drivers.