Hellfire
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| posted on 5/11/03 at 09:44 PM |
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Operating System Poll
Out of curiosity I was wondering how popular Windows XP has become against other Operating Systems.
I would appreciate your input by firstly stating whether you are happy with the system you're operating, and then what system it is you're
operating.
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Alan B
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| posted on 5/11/03 at 09:54 PM |
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I have Win2k on this PC (not in the list), but XP on my laptop.
XP seems pretty good actually, no real complaints.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 5/11/03 at 10:07 PM |
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Can't answer your question! I'm very happy running Mandrake 9.1 Linux - you need a 'something else' option.
cheers,
David
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 5/11/03 at 10:16 PM |
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2000 Pro, as Alan said, not listed.
Some compatability problems with older software/drivers but fairly bullet proof
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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Hellfire
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| posted on 5/11/03 at 10:18 PM |
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Poll...
No offence to anyone if you're Operating System isn't included. However, it meant to be most popular...
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chrisg
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 12:00 AM |
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I voted "yes"
But I didn't understand the question, and I haven't got a computer anyway.
Cheers
Chris
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greggors84
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 01:06 AM |
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i think you can only vote once. I cant vote a second time anyway.
Chris
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blueshift
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 04:47 AM |
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FreeBSD 5.0
well, not on my desktop, because I'm a lazy arse.
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 08:07 AM |
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Win 2k Pro.... would of thought that would be a fairly popular choice !!
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ceebmoj
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 08:50 AM |
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I would have assumed that most people would be running some version of either 2K or XP and would be surprised if any one is using non SE win 98.
However I would be interested if you had included a other options to see how many people out there are using Apples, Unix, Linux or one of the other
options in this comunity.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 08:56 AM |
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I'm going to be an awkward sod again!
Although I mostly use Linux, my machine can dual-boot to Win 98 if I wish - there are still a couple of programs that I can't replace (but
I'm working on that).
I also have a very small laptop that runs Win98 - it's only got a 75MHz Pentium and 32Mb memory, so it's the only thing that fits!
Apart from that, I can't be arsed to keep updating while what I've got does the job I want it to do.
David
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ceebmoj
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 09:03 AM |
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david have you tryed using wine or some other program to alow you to use youer windows programs in youer linux enviroment
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 09:17 AM |
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I've looked into it - the main program I'm concerned about is Quicken, the accounting package, and the Wine developers are putting a lot
of effort into making that work: apparently it's their number one priority!
However, it's not 100% reliable so I've left it alone. The latest Linux distributions have something called GnuCash, which is a Quicken
clone. I'll be playing with that over the next few weeks...
David
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 09:45 AM |
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who managed to post that they dont have an operating system....thats a pretty fantastic feat!
atb
steve
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kingr
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 09:56 AM |
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Do I get multiple votes for multiple computers? At the moment I have : Win 2k Server, 2 x Win 2k pro, 2 x Win XP, Suse Mail Server on Pc, Suse PowerPC
on a much molested Imac, Mac OS 9.2.2 on the same Imac, 2 x Mac OS 8.6 and finally Mac OS X Jaguar. Beat that for diversity !
Kingr
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ned
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 10:17 AM |
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Stephen,
Maybe chris posted from a bt phonebox internet kiosk thingy.
Me, I'm on Xp on my machine, though the pc's i support range from macs to windows 3.1 shell programs through 95, nt4 and w2k.
My only gripe with xp is that if i ever try and copy/paste into a windows telnet window my machine blue screens and reboots itself. very annoying, i
end up ftp'ing text files and copying the data over in a unix shell.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Hellfire
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 10:29 AM |
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FAIR COMMENT
I'll tell you what... I didn't realise how many Windows 2K there are out there!
I don't come across it that much...
Seems like most of us are running XP then... interesting!!!
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ceebmoj
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 12:17 PM |
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I posted no because I all though one of my work pc is a windows box I do not use it that much and there was no other option for any one of a host of
other OS out there.
Also the browser that I occasionally use to post of this sight does not really have an operating system in real terms (product under development by my
company).
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Spyderman
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 02:40 PM |
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I'm using XP and think it is a pile of poo!
I've had nothing but trouble with it.
I can't burn CD's as it crashes. Can't reinstall as it crashes. Can't load software a lot of the time as it crashes.
Can't uninstall it as it crashes.
Software that is loaded needs reinstalling frequently.
Etc, etc, etc.
I've never had so much trouble with an operating system.
Terry
Spyderman
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timf
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 03:01 PM |
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i use linux/nt4 at home but have to use nt/2k/xp at work, tried xp when it first came out and decided xp stood for eXpect Problems, in that drivers
didn't work machine wount reconise my dat backup device etc
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 03:30 PM |
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Ned - even hand held thingys like pda's and im guessing phone booth internet stuff uses a form of 'windows' such as the embedded
'ce' version.
I tend to run about 3 years behind the times.
I bought 95 the day it came out, once used to it , it was great.
thing is, apart from stuff like USB support, bigger HD's and other 'internal' stuff, nothing much seems to have changed from an
everyday user point of view.
Do you really need so much more and 3gigateraflops of cpu power to browse the internet at the average joe's home computer?
At work, I run Me. At home I have two PCs. One with Me and one 98se. I cant see the difference in normal use...they feel the same.
What this poll has shown nicely is if you rehash the same old thing, make it more complicated and say its a must have, then people buy it.
if on the other hand you need whizzy hardware that most people dont need to support, then perhaps XP is an essential. But wouldnt Me have done just as
well in most cases?
atb
steve
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ceebmoj
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 04:38 PM |
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I would have to say that I disagree with you on the Me point. There is a lot of the bang it in a new box and watch people buy it syndrome in MS
products though.
Me has to be one of the worst efforts at an operating system that MS have ever had.
I think that the NT -> 2000 -> XP line up of things is however a relatively good turn out. Unfortunately XP does go a bit to far towards “I have
no brain let MS make all my decisions for me”. It also is a **** that the media player upgrade is considered a OS upgrade that cant be uninstalled
only rolled back.
In stability alone 2000 shows Me the way home never mind the security advantages (not to sat that 2000 is all that good but better that Me)
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Scotty
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 05:06 PM |
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running my own computer shop i must agree with ceebmoj, ME is cr*p, XP is great for people who just want to use it (and if your XP is crashing, was
it an upgrade or a fresh install, i never liked doing "over-the top" installs) an no i have not done the poll as i have LOADS and LOADS of
computers 
[Edited on 6/11/03 by Scotty]
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Noodle
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| posted on 6/11/03 at 08:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gusterson
Ned - even hand held thingys like pda's and im guessing phone booth internet stuff uses a form of 'windows' such as the embedded
'ce' version.
I've written a few programs for my Palm handheld and that uses PalmOS, not CE. Also, there's an embedded Linux around (can't
remember it's name though)
2K at work, 2K at home. It's OK. Got a machine up running Mandrake Linux 9.1 recently. Didn't have much time to play with it, but I was
impressed. I expect most of us will be heading there when Uncle Bill tries to take over the world.
Again.
Cheers,
Neil.
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DrEagle
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| posted on 7/11/03 at 12:15 AM |
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XP for PCs and for my Apple Mac it has to be OSX
Thank god Microsoft stole OSX and gave the PC world a decent Operating System.
P.S. I know OSX is UNIX based b 4 i get any smart comments!
[Edited on 7/11/03 by DrEagle]
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