Kubuntu. I occasionally reboot to xp to play starcraft or LOMAC.
Starcraft works almost perfectly in wine. Th only thing that doesn't work are the background on battle.net when you are in the lobby. Game play works 100%.
Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
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#12OS X is perfect for me, thanks to its Unix terminal. Linux is now useless, but I still use BSD for my servers.
I use Windows to play Quake Live.
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#13My desktop OS is Windows, but all my servers run Linux and OpenBSD, and I ALWAYS have a handful of terminals open.
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#14Does 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 am just curious about how HN readers are different from the general computer users when it comes to OS preference, this is interesting because HN community is a special group of people who are interested in technology startup, usually tech savvy and practical.
This poll is different from the favorite color poll because it's technology related, I guess it's not only me who is curious about this question, as people are actually upmodding the poll.
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#15Our team develops on two MacBooks and a Linux box. We virtualize Windows via VirtualBox (which is just amazing). Our production server runs Ubuntu on EC2.
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#16In 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.
of course Gmail isn't an OS, that's not what I meant, but when we use Gmail we're really making more use of the server operating system than the clients, so my point is that it very hard to really say what operating system we're using.
It would be interesting to measure the usage of say posting this comment, how many machine instructions were used at the OSX end, and how many by the various routers (running their own operating systems), servers etc used in the full life cycle of what I am doing.
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#17I voted twice. I develop on Linux (Ubuntu) running inside VMWare on my Mac.
Yup. I voted three times. My microscope & downstream processing tools use Windows Server 2003, XP Pro x64, XP Pro, Ubuntu, and OS X. MacGyver hacker, here.... and yes, I use them all every day.
Re: Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
#18Kubuntu. I occasionally reboot to xp to play starcraft or LOMAC.
Starcraft works almost perfectly in wine. Th only thing that doesn't work are the background on battle.net when you are in the lobby. Game play works 100%.
It doesn't work with a launcher i use to play on a private server, its retarded, but i don't mind.
Re: Poll: What OS do you use everyday, or most often?
#19I voted twice. I develop on Linux (Ubuntu) running inside VMWare on my Mac.
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#20many laptops and servers running openbsd over the past 10 years or so, with the occasional mac os-powered powerbook/macbook pro.