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Quick Poll ::: Your OS of choice

Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:16 PM EST
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By Horus
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Whilst I'm sure NV have the statistics on this, I'm curious to find out what the OS of choice is from the readers of NV.

So the question is: Which OS do you use on your main PC (either at home or at work)? Conversely, which browser do you use for surfing the web

Note: This is a simple poll requiring a simple answer (MS, OSX, Linux, IE, Firefox etc). I'm not looking for this to become another thread of MS haters arguing why MS is evil and Linux is the be-all and end-all.

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THE RESULTS

OS

3. Linux (All Flavours): 18 - 12%
2. Windows XP: 49 - 34%

1. Mac OSX 10.X: 79 - 54%

BROWSER

5. Other (Opera, Maxthon etc): 5 - 4%
4. Internet Explorer: 7 - 5%
3. Camino: 16 - 11%
2. Safari: 43 - 30%

1. Firefox (1.5.x & 2alpha): 72 - 50%

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Horus

I'll start things off:

I use Windows XP SP2 with IE7 beta 2.

  • 1 vote
Reply#1 - Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:42 PM EST
macman81

I use Mac OS X 10.4.5 primarily with Camino.

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:41 PM EST
Andy Lurig

At home: WinXP Pro SP2 & firefox 1.5.1
At work: XP Pro SP1 & Slimbrowser (for Oracle), Firefox for everything else
When Ubuntu Dapper Drake arrives, I'll attempt to partition from the ground up a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu.

    Reply#3 - Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:11 PM EST
    Erik K Veland

    OS X 10.4.5, Safari

    • 1 vote
    Reply#4 - Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:33 PM EST
    J. Halbert

    Everywhere I go, I use OS X 10.4.5 with Safari

    Erik K Veland writes:

    OS X 10.4.5, Safari

    That's what I like to see!

      Reply#5 - Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:50 PM EST
      Dr Juice

      OS X 10.4.5 with Safari, though I also have Opera, Firefox, and Camino. I really like the way Safari displays RSS feeds, but not the fact that I can't import them into other browsers.

      At school, for my programming class everything is XP, and my design stuff is all OS X.

      I'm going to get my old Compaq up and running again for gaming.

        Reply#6 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:40 AM EST
        SoundScape

        At the moment XP SP2, Firefox 1.5.1 - home and office (same laptop acts as both)

        Soon to be changing to:
        Office - same as above
        Home - OS X 10.4.5, and probably use firefox there also.

          Reply#7 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:05 AM EST
          vinay

          Work: XP Pro SP2+, Firefox 1.5.1
          Home: OS X 10.4.5, Camino / XP Pro SP2+, Firefox 2.0 Alpha (yay bleeding edge)

            Reply#8 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:03 AM EST
            hardwired

            I'm the other way round...

            Work and on the road : OS X 10.4.5, FireFox/Safari (Powerbook rox!)
            Home: XP Pro SP2, anything but IE (disabled) =P

              Reply#9 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:07 AM EST
              Benno Hansen

              SuSE Linux 9.3 / SeaMonkey 1.0

              • 1 vote
              Reply#10 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:42 AM EST
              Joggl81

              Home: OS X 10.4.5 / Camino
              Work: XP Pro SP2 / IE6

                Reply#11 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:43 AM EST
                JBagley

                Home and Work: Windows XP, Firefox

                Simple.

                  Reply#12 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:42 AM EST
                  Spinney

                  Have-Windows XP Home edition - firefox 2.0

                  want- Osx10.4.5/camino

                  • 1 vote
                  Reply#13 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:14 AM EST
                  Aine MacDermot

                  WinXP Home SP2+, Firefox 1.5.x

                  want - Linux box (separate machine, I don't want to dual boot)

                  • 1 vote
                  Reply#14 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:17 AM EST
                  Adam Raymond

                  Home:
                  Primary Computer: OS X 10.4.5 with Safari and Camino
                  Secondary Computer: Windows 2003 Server SP1 (because I'm weird) and Firefox

                  Both these are going away next week and being replaced with a new iMac, dual booting XP and OS X.

                  Work:
                  iMac with OX X 10.4.5 and Safari
                  PC with XP Pro and Firefox 1.5.x
                  I switch seamlessly between the two with Synergy

                    Reply#15 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:25 AM EST
                    Chasmo

                    Work and Home: Mac OSX 10.4.5 with Firefox 1.5. Used to use a Compaq laptop but when I had to replace the HD and it wouldn't accept the XP code on the label on the bottom, got rid of it and now have a MacBook Pro! Love it!

                      Reply#16 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:58 AM EST
                      TrisMcC

                      Work and Home: Linux

                      At work -- Fedora Core/RHEL
                      at Home -- 3 Ubuntu Breezy Computers, one OpenWRT router

                      I haven't used anything else since 1996.

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#17 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:22 AM EST
                      Biblical Fury

                      Home: Mac OSX 10.3.9 with Firefox & Safari
                      Work: Windows XP with Firefox

                        Reply#18 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:22 AM EST
                        IceTsar28

                        Home: XP Pro w/ Firefox
                        Work: Win 2000 Pro w/ Firefox

                          Reply#19 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:25 AM EST
                          Market Machinist

                          Ubuntu Linux, Vector Linux, SUSE, Fedora, in that order. Knoppix for emergencies. Mac OS X if I woke up one day in a world withou penguins. Windows at work, often, with the old NT being the least evil.

                          • 1 vote
                          Reply#20 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:26 AM EST
                          DocDave

                          Home & Work: XP Pro and Firefox 1.5.1

                            Reply#21 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:36 AM EST
                            Lloyd D. Jessee

                            Hello,

                            Work: WindowsXP sp2, Firefox for fun stuff, Flock for sites like this, digg, and other 'web 2.0' type sites, and work is done on IE v6

                            Home1: MacOSX 10.4, Safari for most, Flock for sites like this, Firefox for random or misc sites
                            Home2: WindowsXP sp1, Firefox (video/multimedia development machine)

                            LDJ

                              Reply#22 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:49 AM EST
                              Donald Turnbull

                              Work: SUSE Linux and Windows XP SP2 Pro - Browser: Firefox 1.5.0.1 on both

                              Home: Mac OS X 10.4.3, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP SP2 Pro - Browser: Firefox 1.5.0.1 on all.

                              • 2 votes
                              Reply#23 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:13 AM EST
                              Ditto

                              Windows Vista Build 5308 Beta with both IE7 and Firefox (Deerpark) 2.0 alpha

                                Reply#24 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:34 AM EST
                                Thinking Rocks

                                XP Pro SP2 with IE6, Firefox 1.5.0.1, Opera 8.52
                                Ubuntu Breezy with Firefox 1.5.0.1, Opera 8.52

                                  Reply#25 - Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:40 AM EST
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