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It totally matters. Just ask any Mac or Linux diehard. Personally, I use all three of the primary operating systems: Windows XP, Mac OSX and Linux (Ubuntu in th
by richtaur 18y ago
It totally matters. Just ask any Mac or Linux diehard. Personally, I use all three of the primary operating systems: Windows XP, Mac OSX and Linux (Ubuntu in this case). I have separate uses for each and can't imagine getting rid of any of them.
- cstejerean 18y agoI'm curious what you use Windows for. The only things I can imagine myself using Windows for are gaming or testing in IE.
- timcederman 18y agoOffline files. The only thing I still use XP or Vista for.
- davidw 18y ago'Wine' is ok for testing IE under Linux.
- cstejerean 18y agoDoes it work with IE7 now? I haven't looked at IE under Linux for a while, but last time I did look it was IE6 only.
- tjr 18y agoMicrosoft Sam text-to-speech. I've never found a more amusing computer voice.
- Retric 18y agoWindows seems to work better as a media center PC. Streaming video to an 360 or a PS3 is really easy to setup with Windows and getting the hardware / codec's to work is simple. Note: I have heard that Linux is getting better for this stuff but windows is cheep enough that I don't really care.
- rickd 18y agoI use Connect360 (http://www.nullriver.com/products/connect360 http://www.nullriver.com/products/connect360) for OSX->360 and I couldn't be happier. The only annoyance is that it won't stream drm'd content from the itunes store. I think that SUCKS. Otherwise, it couldn't be easier to use and it's quick and clean. No connection to them other than I'm a happy customer ;)
- Retric 18y agoYep, it almost works but that just means it's only slightly broken.
- ensignavenger 18y agoI have a solution- Don't buy DRM'd content. Ever. And if you do, pirate a usable copy. I still prefer not buying it in the first place, as I don't want to support the notion of DRM.
- shard 18y agoMany EDA and FPGA software packages are Windows only.
- niels_olson 18y agoI have a Mac Book, an iBook, two Dell laptops running Ubuntu (one is our media center and my wife uses the other for work), two dell towers (one I bought 5 years ago which still has XP; the other is a 10 year old 900MHz P3 which is my file server, running SuSE 11 and Compiz), and I have two OLPC XOs (two kids; one was a gift). That's 8 computers in the house plus a server I admin that's running CentOS. The one Dell running Windows has 1) an HP scanjet 4470c that isn't supported in OS X or SANE and 2) MS Money with 10 years of data. GNU Cash is on my todo list and I found an epson scanner on craigslist for $40 that I'm going to get tomorrow. Once I resolve those two issues I will happily abandon my Creative Suite 2 and never use Windows again. Meanwhile, people at Starbucks ask me how to get on the internet and while I help them with their HPAcerVaioToshibaGateway $500 special, I advise them to use Ubuntu instead of Vista. I give them the link to Ubuntu and I know they won't use it. One guy was so happy he bought me a coffee, even though I'm sure he will never follow that link. They use what ships with the computer.
- richtaur 18y agoWell, to test in Internet Explorer of course! I'm a front-end engineer for Yahoo!, and unfortunately a stupidly high number of our users are IE users. There are options on other operating systems like Parallels and WINE, but nothing gets the job done like the real thing.