Operating System

[somebody231]

I, myself, use Windows Vista and I'm going to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my computer too soon, so it's going to be a "dualboot" (meaning two operating systems to pick from at computer startup).

So... what's your preference?

PS. You can choose multiple choices if you have different OSs on multiple computers. Btw if you use Linux, do you use Gnome/KDE/Xfce/? as a desktop environment?

 

[melanie2]

Windows XP...bought my first ever computer four summers ago..it's still running smoothly...a Dell seventeen inch flat top...this is my first computer ever..i never wanted one..and lookit me now lol..

 

[scavenger]

Currently I use a Dell Studio laptop with Windows Vista (Home Premium) for internetting and to play the occasional game. I also got a slightly older Packard Bell desktop computer for my artistic work, and that one runs Windows XP (Professional Edition).

I also experimented with installing Xubuntu on an older Toshiba laptop, which ran perfect (and I loved the look of Xfce/GNOME, though as a Linux n00b, I couldn't find my way through installing adittional programs, let alone getting internet to work on it. A pity, because I'm a big advocator of open source software, and I would have loved to have an extra linux laptop to show off with... Don't know about dual boot systems though... I'm not sure what it does to a Windows Vista system, and the last thing I want to do is mess up my system. I'll just wait 'till I find myself another second hand laptop or so...

 

[the_jimmy_james]

On my desk is my main box with Vista Ultimate x64 and my trusty old Indigo 500MHz iMac DV. Both boxes are trusted.

I also have a 'book, a Dell Latitude D600. It's a few years old, but I use it constantly. It's a 1.5GHz Centrino with a paltry 768MB of RAM and Vista Home Premium.

My second book is ancient. It's a Celeron 600 with 128MB running Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, which is a cut down XP SP2. Good for older junk like that. Unused comuters included my old Power Mac G4, even older blue G3. Several old Apple notebooks and old desktop Macs.

 

[the_jimmy_james]

I almost forgot.

My vintage pieces. I have a Packard Bell Statesman notebook from '93. 486SL 33MHz. 4MB RAM. Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It's so cool to remember a time when things really worked totally differently.

Then, I've got an original 1984 Macintosh upgraded with 1MB of RAM. That's vintage computing. I wish I had some more old computers.

If anybody has some pre-1995 computers they don't want, PM me.

 

[somebody231]

I also experimented with installing Xubuntu on an older Toshiba laptop, which ran perfect (and I loved the look of Xfce/GNOME, though as a Linux n00b, I couldn't find my way through installing adittional programs, let alone getting internet to work on it. A pity, because I'm a big advocator of open source software, and I would have loved to have an extra linux laptop to show off with... Don't know about dual boot systems though... I'm not sure what it does to a Windows Vista system, and the last thing I want to do is mess up my system. I'll just wait 'till I find myself another second hand laptop or so...

A dualboot keeps the both OSs seperate from eachother. You just have to have two partitions. One clean formatted one for a new OS.
For example C:\ = Windows , D:\ = Linux 🙂
The partition must be formatted into ext3 or equivalent. MS uses NTFS, so the two partitions would not be compatible, unless one would install additional software (there are programs for windows and linux to make them read and write on eachother's "territories")

I'm not a master myself either... Actually tomorrow will be the first day of this linux convert 🙂 Besides I've found loads of interesting software that I'll install right away and even a few games (3D FPS games, free ofc)