I am surprised nobody has submitted this poll, it's interesting to know anyway.
Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
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#2What's the HN general consensus on polls?
They feel sort of Reddit-ish. :)
Re: Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
#3What's the HN general consensus on polls? They feel sort of Reddit-ish. :)
You should make a poll about it
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#4In some ways the poll is hard to answer, lets say you use gmail a lot, is the OS of the client or the server the one you're really using?
Re: Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
#5Does it not make a bit more sense to indicate why you're conducting the poll? I don't mind polls, but usually they're only interesting if the poster sets it up and comments on his/her own choice and the reason for the poll in the first place. Polls like this seem to serve no more of a purpose than "What's your favorite color?".
Could you indicate the reason for the poll? That will get the conversation going in the direction you want it to and will give everybody some context when replying.
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#6All my contact management, todos, calendar, etc are on the web on a Linux platform, SO, you could technically say I'm on Linux all day, however, I access everything from Windows and code in Windows so...
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#7I voted twice. I develop on Linux (Ubuntu) running inside VMWare on my Mac.
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#8Kubuntu. I occasionally reboot to xp to play starcraft or LOMAC.
Re: Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
#9In some ways the poll is hard to answer, lets say you use gmail a lot, is the OS of the client or the server the one you're really using?
Gmail isn't exactly an OS in itself. If we were to answer the poll according to the OS that the web pages we visit use, we would see a poll dominated by FreeBSD and Linux. Somehow I don't think that is what the OP intended.
Re: Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
#10Does it not make a bit more sense to indicate why you're conducting the poll? I don't mind polls, but usually they're only interesting if the poster sets it up and comments on his/her own choice and the reason for the poll in the first place. Polls like this seem to serve no more of a purpose than "What's your favorite color?". Could you indicate the reason for the poll? That will get the conversation going in the di…
I think the reason for the poll is just curiosity as to what the OS distribution is among HN users.