i've been to lazy to find a version of windows 7 to put on my laptop and i've also been to lazy to configure it to dual boot ubuntu... i really should stop being lazy, i hate vista...
i,ve used various os on my pc and laptop even run snow leopard on my windows laptop , at the moment dual booting vista and xp . ( vista for internet xp for everything else ) .i am a fan of ubuntu as well and have used that on my laptop again dual booting .
Running OSX 10.6.4 and dual booting Win 7 Ultimate on Boot Camp. Tried the latest version of Ubuntu but it would fail to load from the disc and installing it another partition would just be dumb. It was great on my PC way back when.
iv'e got a few different systems on the go my self most of which are dual booters as such
1. desktop running, xp pro 32 bit / ubuntu 10.4 dual boot
2. desktop running ubuntu 10.4 ( this is my media machine with x2 1tb hdd's full of mp3's )
3. this laptop running 7 ultimate 32 bit / backtrack 4 dual boot
4. another laptop running ubuntu 10.4 / backtrack 4 dual boot
Main Laptop - Ubuntu 9.10
Backup Laptop - Xubuntu 10.04
Wife Laptop - Ubuntu 10.04
Main Desktop - Ubuntu 10.04
Wife Desktop - Ubuntu 10.04
Media Center 1&2 (XBMC) - Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 9.04
Fileserver - Ubuntu 9.10
Firewall - SmoothWall 3.0
Work Desktop - Ubuntu 10.04
Studio DAW - Windows XP (forced to due to the Line 6 equipment)
Win 7 enterprise on my work laptop
Win 7 enterprise and jolicloudOS on my eeePC 1000H
Hooking up an OSX (snow leapord) desktop here today for me to play with at work.
Wow, this thread has loads of people using Linux - I'm very impressed (Linux is definitely for the discerning user, Windows is for the masses ). Some are even brave enough to stick with Windows Vista...
Here's what I use:
At work we got Windows Server 2003 on my development machine, plus various flavours of Windows on VM's scattered around.
At home I use
- CentOS on my email/web/domain server
- Fedora 13 on my desktop machine, my mini notebook and my wife's mini notebook
- Fedora 12 on the media centre
I have some Windows XP partitions on the desktops too, but they never get used.
I've been surprised by the number of Linux users too. Most "studies" I've seen put the number of Linux users in the <5% range, but here it is clearly well north of 30%.
I've been surprised by the number of Linux users too. Most "studies" I've seen put the number of Linux users in the <5% range, but here it is clearly well north of 30%.
It's nice to see Linux being so popular for once, but then again you have to realize that only a certain kind of person comes to an mobile OS forum, then a small percentage of that group leave their specific phone portion to talk about Computer Os's. So that small percentage of an already small group has a higher chance of knowing what Linux is and actually wanting to use any kind of Nix distro.
Windows 7 This OS is really solid and visually very pleasing. My favorite feature: Making pages instantly become half the screen. It's very helpful for school.
I run Snow Leopard on my I mac; XP on an older Dell 700m, and Linux Mint on my Netbook. I keep XP on the 700m only because I occasionally need to access something that only XP windows does. As you can imagine, this computer collects ever increasing amounts of dust, so I plan on reviving it by upgrading some hardware and dual booting some linux distro. Not sure which one it will be yet, but I would not be against trying something other than mint, just for variety's sake. I don't plan on installing any netbook or cloud specific distros though.
How do you like Snow Leopard so far? I have mine on my AMD machine so I'm not getting the real experience of it, but I'd like to know if it's really any different on my machine versus a real mac.
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