Aspies For Freedom

What OS or distro do you use?

I have Windows XP because it's what came with my computer, and I don't know/care enough to change it.

Vista on this machine (Q6600 8800GTS (waiting for my 3870 to arrive) 3GB DDR2)
Fedora on my file server (Athlon 2000+, Radeon 9k, 1.5GB DDR),
XP Pro on my mums machine, considering dual booting Ubuntu on it for her (P4, 6800GT, 1GB RAM),
XP Tablet on my sisters laptop (T5500, integrated GPU, 1GB RAM),
Debian on my MicroATX machine ( PIII, integrated GPU, 256 RAM),
A really old Mac.
DOS on an old 486DX machine. I dont know much about its specs though. its purely an interest item.

Currently I have XP and Mandriva Linux on my machine.

But next week I'm reformatting hda or my C:\ drive and adding 98 SE to the mix. I want to play Duke Nukem again.

have you tried using WINE to try and get it working? or even DOSBOX?

Fedora, OpenBSD,  FreeBSD

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Vista for me.At least that is what the little stickers on my lap top reads.

why oh why do people use vista?

1) I have the hardware to run it
2) I want DX10
3) Its not as bad as people make out.
4) OK, drivers for it suck. but not as much as they did
5) yes, OK, they still REALLY suck.
6) XP doesn't make full use of the Q6*** range of processors; rather, it treats them as one resource, rather than four cores.
7) I didn't get charged for it, it was installed by the shop for free.
8) Games. Vista's 9x emulation is actually better than XP's, to the point where I can actually run games like Final Liberation natively, rather than through an app.
9) Caching; yes, I know some distros do this too, but Vista preloads my most used programs. oh, and what you've heard about it eating all the RAM? its been exaggerated, while it IS a bit hungry, it uses that RAM to index and cache.

oh yeah, and most of the BSoDs and crashes that have occurred in Vista? been traced back to dodgy nVidia drivers.

I use Xubuntu Linux, 7.10, on this machine (PIII, 256MB RAM, 10GB HDD), but on my desktop (P4, 512 RAM, 60GB  HDD), I run XP.  only use xp, so I can run Ghex, which lets me customize my guitar hero game. I also have XP, because I have a 128MB video card, and enjoy playing some older games on it.

Windows XP/slackware(boot CD) on my DVtop, OS X/ OS 9 on my G5, Debian on my old Dell, and Garnet/some linux distro that I forgot because I never use it on my Palm TX

Windows XP

I currently use XP on my notebook. I was using an old copy of Red Hat 9 on my desktop, until I made the mistake of downloading Fedora 9 and installing it last night. --*** Fedora 9 and the people who developed it, it's like the Linux answer to Windows Vista, replete with a clone of the Aero desktop in the form of KDE 4.0

Now I'm downloading a copy of Ubuntu.

BTW, what is up with the inherant non-configurability of Fedora after installing? YUM also slows everything down to a crawl.  

mac OS 10.5.3 on this machine, with a Parallels3 system running XP and another one running Ubuntu.

"server" mac laptop is back on 10.4 something and the other half's laptop is too.

if i can get the old craptop back, it's running system 9 ... i miss playing Realmz.

I am ashamed....ASHAMED I TELL YOU! to say that I have.....VISTA on a desktop....This certification had better be worth it..once I leave this program in February, I'll either go back to my old standard and dual Boot XP and Ubuntu, or I'll go all out and get Vista Ultimate (no sense in having junk unless I have the Best junk...or at least the junk with the most features)