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?
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.
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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?
Because right now I only know how to use Windows and Mac...I am VERY interested in learning about Linux though since I've heard such awesome things about it.
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.
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.
Because I haven't got a clue what any of the above means.
Calm down Garreth.It shouldnt bother you what anyone uses. 
Oops.Sorry about the extra 'r' Gareth.Where is that edit button?
The "primary" systems that I use are OS X 10.3.9 on an iBook G4, and Debian (it started out as 3.0, but it's now a chimera of several versions due to incremental updates) on a generic white-box PC (there's also an XP install on it, but I hardly ever use that, since I dislike Windows). I'd like to switch to OpenSolaris as the "primary" system on the PC, though, since it has somewhat more separation between "system" and "application" packages, and it also has a kernel with a much better architecture than Linux (it is actually modular, as opposed to amorphous and pseudo-modular). I hope to write my own OS eventually. The core will look like a cross between QNX and Plan 9, and the standard desktop will be somewhat like that of OS X.
I also have a large collection of operating system images for emulators, and several old computers of various architectures.
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