Interesting that the OP of this poll wrote this at the top of his last poll post: "(Please be sure to also vote this poll up as well as vote for a choice; voti

Interesting that the OP of this poll wrote this at the top of his last poll post: "(Please be sure to also vote this poll up as well as vote for a choice; voting for a choice doesn't up vote the poll!)" I don't care about the karma from polls per se. I mean it's nice, but I've been an HN user for a while now (580 days) and haven't felt the need to seek it out. I feel the choice of OS is an interesting question these days. The OS climate has changed significantly over the last few years. Asking the question has also spawned quite a bit of discussion (currently 310 comments) with relatively little flaming going on, so that demonstrates another interesting property of HN readers: that we're capable of having non-childish discussions about things. For me, as a long time linux user, the question seems relevant as well. I've seen quite a few posts in recent weeks declaring that linux is dead on the desktop. And yet, so far in my poll, it beat out windows and is not that far behind OSX among HN readers, who we'll assume are synonymous with "technical users". With the number of votes that's been collected, I think we can call it a decent sample. The results are definitely not what I would have expected.