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I am using Linux (specificially Mandriva Linux, though Debian isn't bad, either) exclusively since three years now.

I haven't tried a Mac (yet), but I really can't understand why anyone would want to use Windows (of course, there are some who actually need to use it - I'm not speaking of some kids mucking around with an illegal copy of Photoshop, but specialized applications for work which are available exclusively for Windows).

I mean sure, it takes some learning to switch systems, but in my experience (having used Windows from 3.x to XP) the work required to keep a Windows system running is much greater (and a running expense instead of a one-time kind of thing). But it seems not to register with most because they are used to it.

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All Windows, from server 2k3 to Vista. Of course I manage windows servers in a datacenter and used to work for Microsoft so I obviously scoff at all the linux fanboys out there.

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100% Windows here, although I originally discovered Dominions:PPP through a Linux gaming website.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Like Velusion, I use Windows professionally. I even have the MCSE, for whatever that's worth. And my Windows is pretty well-customized to exactly what I like. Yes, it's possible to tweak the heck out of Windows with a little bit of work.

I've tried several different flavors of Linux, and my favorite is Ubuntu. Still, though, I'm not sure that I see the huge appeal. I can get all of the cool OSS stuff for Windows, plus Windows runs all of my games. Why switch?

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Linux. (ubuntu 7.10 right now, although I've gone through everything from Caldera 2.2, to Red Hat 7.4, to Mandriva 8.6.)

Windoze 98 is installed on this computer, but now that I have 1G of memory it will no longer boot. Doesn't matter, I have a separate machine that has Red Hat 7.4 and Windoze 98 on it so I can play all my old (Loki! and other) games.

Interestingly, the hardware on this machine is failing, yet linux seems to deal with it, and Windoze just crashes; I mean more than usual (if I pull out a 512K stick to make it work).

In the end, is that DOM3 is a cross-platform game, and we all can enjoy it. What makes it easily cross-platform is that it is NOT developed in Windoze.

Also with linux I have the luxury of Wine and Dosemu for those times when I need them.
[I run ACBLSCORE (bridge players know) under Dosemu, and my favorite proxy-server/filter, the Proxomitron, under Wine.]