What OS do you use?

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Well you could say Slackware is painful compared to Fedora. Personal I like Slackware, I don't find it a pain in the arse. It may not be as easy as Fedora or Ubuntu but once you get used to it then its easy. I recommend people should read the documentation (not that I ever did) because it makes things easier.

I've used many. But primarily Linux and Windows

Main Linux Distro: Linux Mint 9
Windows 7 (preinstalled on this laptop) hardly used except when I need to use a windows app

I run in Virtual Box lots of stuff including BSD, and even Haiku (Open BeOS)

Kubuntu Hardy, mainly. I sometimes boot to Windows XP to play a game, but it can be months between two times I actually boot to it.

I run a webserver, I have a laptop and I have a quad core with 8GB ram specifically for video editing. I also use a flight simulator. EVERYTHING runs Linux. I don't find computers frustrating any more. Everybody should give it a try. I use Ubuntu 10.04.

Mostly Mac OS X, but I also like to use Linux Mint and BackTrack. I only ever use Windows when I'm at school.

Microsoft Windows 7 (32Bit)

In order of frequency of use:
1. Mac OS X
2. Knoppix
3. Windows XP
4. Windows 7
5. Mac OS 9

I'm thinking of getting a Linux distro that actually runs on the hard drive, probably Lenny, rather than Knoppix, which is really slow because it runs from a CD. I also want to try out some alternative OS's, like maybe Amiga or Haiku.

I use Windows Vista. Personally I don't see what all the complaints are all about.

Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit for gaming, Ubuntu 10.04 for anything else(Web, Word Processing, Video Editing)

Mainly OS X Snow Leopard and iOS (on my iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad).

my laptop runs Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium, my desktop PC runs Windows XP. I'm keeping them both for now because i'm much more used to having a desktop PC (also I think I might need to by a cooling rack/pad for this laptop, these Toshiba Satellite laptops get kind of warm on the upper left side). Before I bought those two systems, I had a desktop that ran Windows 2000 that served me well for many years. If Windows 7 was yet another Vista, I probably would've ditched Windows and went for a Linux OS, but I am in love with Windows 7 right now.

I have Vista on my Desktop.. - In 3+ years I have had 2 problems and they were not Vista problems- 1 was some sound issue, that people with XP also ended up with, couldn't switch back and forth from speakers to headset, either one or the other would have sound. That was my 1st and only reinstall and I am even more picky with what I allow to be updated. The other is my insane browsing habits. I found out that FireFox can actually crash.. at about 950,000K. No blue screen of death.

and Win7 on my laptop.. To many things switched places in my visual mind, and things went to 'Windows Live' - A calendar that you have to use the internet to access is pretty much useless if your not near internet. And FireFox runs slow IMO on it. But I have handed the thing over to others and said go at it, and they think it is an amazing machine - runs WoW like a dream I am told.. didn't bother to try.

I will get used to it.. has some nice features - I have had it almost a year..

Ohh also I miss the 'sidebar'

I no longer use Windows 7. I inadvertently sabotaged it while setting up a partition for Debian, and those jerks at Hewlett Packard don't supply Windows install discs with their PCs like everyone else, so I would have to pay to reinstall it (either buying an install disc or paying a techie to reinstall). Currently I have the PC booted into Knoppix from a DVD, and I'm trying (so far unsuccessfully) to create a bootable install disc for Debian.

You can borrow a disk and use your win 7 key.

Windows Vista. No problems other than it's slow as all hell.

If you have only deleted the HP_TOOLS partition and not the others, you may be able to get Windows to boot by settings the SYSTEM partition as active.

OTOH, is there any message you get when booting the Debian disc? Did you download the right disc?
ia64 = Itanium
amd64 = x86-64