Operating System poll

Evil Dave · #1 December 16th, 2006, 07:07 PM

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atul said:
I've been happy with the fact that I haven't had much to fiddle in order to make this computer to work nicely. Compare to my experience with other OSs where nearly everything seems to be delivered half-finished with a motto of "configure it yourself". I'm well able to do such a chore, but to be honest couldn't care less...

That's my thought in a nutshell. All I gotta do is ask myself, "Which would I rather do, tinker with my machine configuration, or play Dominions?" Generally, the answer is pretty easy.

And when it isn't, it's all Unix, all the way down.

But an almost on-topic question: for those who have dual-boot machines and copies of Dom3 on both O/S's, do you see any performance differences between them? Anybody even tried?

B0rsuk · #2 December 17th, 2006, 12:54 PM

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alexti · #3 December 17th, 2006, 10:51 PM

I wonder if "Your primary operating system at home" is a well-phrased question (in the context of the discussion). The last part ('at home') may skew results because of gaming. I've dual-boot (Linux/Windows) at home and bunch of Linux and Windows boxes at work. Of course, I do all interesting and exciting stuff at work and my home computer mostly relegated to games, which, naturally, makes Windows a primary OS

Gandalf Parker · #4 December 17th, 2006, 11:23 PM

Ive never liked dual boots (altho I havent tried any in a long long time). Ive always had an old computer I could put linux on which operated as least as well as my new desktop with windows on it.

DanielM · #5 February 25th, 2007, 03:02 PM

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.