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-- Posted by StTenSk8er at 12:24 pm on May 2, 2009

I revised the old poll with current options. Here is a link to the old one. Link


-- Posted by Grabdix at 12:25 pm on May 2, 2009

I have teh acesto windoz 7 lol

but I have XP


-- Posted by cyanotype at 12:25 pm on May 2, 2009

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard


-- Posted by ATTI at 12:25 pm on May 2, 2009

XP


-- Posted by espresso8097 at 12:25 pm on May 2, 2009

On Win7 right now.  Have XP and Linux systems too.


-- Posted by Darkane at 12:25 pm on May 2, 2009

I've always come back to XP.

I'm on the Windows 7 Beta now though and I could see myself moving to it if needed.


-- Posted by roryboy at 12:27 pm on May 2, 2009

I wish I had my Win98 back


-- Posted by bighead1991 at 12:28 pm on May 2, 2009

I hate that you have restricted this poll by having so many options for OSX, should have less in my opinion, better to group it together. Then more options for Linux too.


-- Posted by Baodure at 12:29 pm on May 2, 2009

i still use xp lol.      


-- Posted by BubbleCake at 12:29 pm on May 2, 2009

Vista.


-- Posted by StTenSk8er at 12:30 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from bighead1991 at 3:28 pm on May 2, 2009


I hate that you have restricted this poll by having so many options for OSX, should have less in my opinion, better to group it together. Then more options for Linux too.

More people OSX than Linux


-- Posted by espresso8097 at 12:33 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from StTenSk8er at 2:30 pm on May 2, 2009


Quote: from bighead1991 at 3:28 pm on May 2, 2009

I hate that you have restricted this poll by having so many options for OSX, should have less in my opinion, better to group it together. Then more options for Linux too.

More people OSX than Linux


But Linux is better.


-- Posted by RIMHfire at 12:34 pm on May 2, 2009

XP.


-- Posted by StTenSk8er at 12:37 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from espresso8097 at 3:33 pm on May 2, 2009


Quote: from StTenSk8er at 2:30 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from bighead1991 at 3:28 pm on May 2, 2009

I hate that you have restricted this poll by having so many options for OSX, should have less in my opinion, better to group it together. Then more options for Linux too.
 

 More people OSX than Linux


But Linux is better.


You can argue that all day but the percent of people that use linux is to small to matter.


-- Posted by bighead1991 at 1:23 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from StTenSk8er at 8:30 pm on May 2, 2009


Quote: from bighead1991 at 3:28 pm on May 2, 2009

I hate that you have restricted this poll by having so many options for OSX, should have less in my opinion, better to group it together. Then more options for Linux too.

More people OSX than Linux


Barely, Linux is at 4%, while OSX is at 6%, Windows at 90%.


-- Posted by pleaseremove at 4:42 pm on May 2, 2009

Yeah, I'm with Sam on this, you made a bit of a mess of it. Windows XP still holds the biggest market share, it should not be in a catch all group.

OS 10.4 or 140.5 and OSX Snow leopard would have done.


-- Posted by StTenSk8er at 7:40 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from pleaseremove at 7:42 pm on May 2, 2009


Yeah, I'm with Sam on this, you made a bit of a mess of it. Windows XP still holds the biggest market share, it should not be in a catch all group.

OS 10.4 or 140.5 and OSX Snow leopard would have done.


I got asked by a mod if I updated it to separate 10.4 and 10.5 so you can pound salt.


-- Posted by Sector Corrupt at 10:10 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from StTenSk8er at 3:37 pm on May 2, 2009


Quote: from espresso8097 at 3:33 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from StTenSk8er at 2:30 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from bighead1991 at 3:28 pm on May 2, 2009

I hate that you have restricted this poll by having so many options for OSX, should have less in my opinion, better to group it together. Then more options for Linux too.

  More people OSX than Linux


 

 But Linux is better.


You can argue that all day but the percent of people that use linux is to small to matter.


Not really, I'm fairly sure Linux not too long ago passed Mac OSX. So, to argue that variations on basically the same operating system which doesn't even have the larger market share deserves more attention than the much more varied Linux distros is.. well, ridiculous.

Anyway, I use Ubuntu on both my computers currently, largely for convenience sake. I formerly had Arch Linux, which I prefer for its sheer customizability, but currently I don't have a lot of time to play with my computer configurations so Ubuntu is easily managed.


-- Posted by StTenSk8er at 1:02 am on May 3, 2009

Quote: from Sector Corrupt at 1:10 am on May 3, 2009


Quote: from StTenSk8er at 3:37 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from espresso8097 at 3:33 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from StTenSk8er at 2:30 pm on May 2, 2009

Quote: from bighead1991 at 3:28 pm on May 2, 2009

I hate that you have restricted this poll by having so many options for OSX, should have less in my opinion, better to group it together. Then more options for Linux too.

 More people OSX than Linux


   

But Linux is better.


You can argue that all day but the percent of people that use linux is to small to matter.


 

Not really, I'm fairly sure Linux not too long ago passed Mac OSX. So, to argue that variations on basically the same operating system which doesn't even have the larger market share deserves more attention than the much more varied Linux distros is.. well, ridiculous.  

Anyway, I use Ubuntu on both my computers currently, largely for convenience sake. I formerly had Arch Linux, which I prefer for its sheer customizability, but currently I don't have a lot of time to play with my computer configurations so Ubuntu is easily managed.


To all of you arguing this here you go Stats

Also  Here

Windows 87.9
Mac 9.73
Linux 1.02

So as I said before pound salt.


-- Posted by pleaseremove at 1:39 am on May 3, 2009

Quote: from StTenSk8er at 3:40 am on May 3, 2009


Quote: from pleaseremove at 7:42 pm on May 2, 2009

Yeah, I'm with Sam on this, you made a bit of a mess of it. Windows XP still holds the biggest market share, it should not be in a catch all group.  

 OS 10.4 or 140.5 and OSX Snow leopard would have done.


I got asked by a mod if I updated it to separate 10.4 and 10.5 so you can pound salt.


Ah yes, a mod, that means it was instantly right...


-- Posted by bighead1991 at 4:28 am on May 3, 2009

I was going off figures on http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp ; I generally use that, I see it to be most accurate.

Windows 7 is not even out to public use yet, so can not compete in this poll. You have also given Snow Leopard in the poll of options.

Windows has a market share of above 90%, yet you put MacOSX with more options than Windows?  

Just because a poll has 10 options you don't have to fill it with useless crap.


-- Posted by allsmiles at 10:41 am on May 3, 2009

Arguably, 6 of those options could be collapsed into one catch-all Unix option.


-- Posted by Sector Corrupt at 7:32 pm on May 3, 2009

Meh, I just remember an article about how Windows feared Linux as a competitor more than Mac for just the reason it was growing so quickly with netbook usage.

Regardless, I still think that splitting up tons of options for new iterations of the same system is silly when compared with the much more varied linux distros :P


-- Posted by Trendz at 3:52 pm on May 27, 2009

Mac OS X 10.5 [Leopard]
and
Windows XP


-- Posted by MrBlades at 7:12 am on June 6, 2009

windows 7


-- Posted by MrCarrot at 6:55 am on Aug. 4, 2009

Quote: from MrBlades at 7:12 am on June 6, 2009


windows 7


-- Posted by lyfsux420 at 2:01 pm on Aug. 9, 2009

I have an XP machine (which I never use anymore), and a mac running OS X Tiger, and then the family computers are both running Leopard.


-- Posted by loveboy 18 at 3:56 am on Aug. 16, 2009

of course xp


-- Posted by scathe710 at 4:34 pm on Aug. 19, 2009

Leopard baby, hope snow leopard when its released. if its a big enough improvement i will buy it.


-- Posted by Rhapsody at 9:34 am on Aug. 28, 2009

I use Windows 7 mainly. I have used a few Linux distributions in the recent past but I haven't use them for every day use, may be sometime in the future.

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