Poll: What Operating System are you Running as your Primary OS?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll: What Operating System are you Running as your Primary OS? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=432)

[Nermal]

Brand new poll every weekday...

:rolleyes:

[arn]

:rolleyes:

working on it... :)

arn

[mkrishnan]

Brand new poll every weekday...

Does that mean somebody owes me a whole lot of overtime for working weekends 5 days a week all this time? :p :D

[Iroganai]

Long time no see, Arn ! Welcome back.

OS X rocks... I eagerly await the arrival of Tiger !

[Nermal]

working on it... :)

arn

Good to know :)

[nagromme]

Personally, I think it's better to change the slogan and LET every poll run for a week. Running for just a day isn't much chance for people to vote and discuss, and gives smaller results.

New Poll Tuesdays?

Or a compromise: a weekly poll AND a weekend poll. One opens on Mon., onw on Fri.

Or best of all... a new poll every day BUT have 7 open at once! Monday's poll stays open until the next Monday, etc.

[SiliconAddict]

Home Server: Windows Server 2003
Homemade firewall / DHCP / DNS server: Free BSD
Tosh Laptop: Windows XP SP2
IBM Laptop: Windows XP SP2 / Windows 2000 SP4
Dell Laptop: Windows XP SP2 / RedHat Linux
Dell Desktop: Windows XP SP2 / Longhorn

[Mid Year]
Mac Mini or a radically updated PowerBook running Tiger :D

[relimw]

Or best of all... a new poll every day BUT have 7 open at once! Monday's poll stays open until the next Monday, etc.

arn said he was working on it, what are you trying to do, put him into an early grave? :rolleyes:

Tho, I'd say just change the tagline, and have a new poll every week. :D

Btw, thanks for the new poll arn :)

[munkle]

Is anybody going to answer the poll rather than bitch about the poll?!!! ;) :p

It's 10.3.7 all the way for me - at work and at play.

Very occasionally do I step onto an XP box and if I do it's normally to troubleshoot something! I'm just too used to OSX now, XP feels foreign and as a result I'm never too productive and feel like I'm fighting it the whole time. Looking forward to Tiger!

[Daveway]

Very occasionally do I step onto an XP box and if I do it's normally to troubleshoot something! I'm just too used to OSX now, XP feels foreign and as a result I'm never too productive and feel like I'm fighting it the whole time. Looking forward to Tiger!

I feel the same way about XP right now. I loathe using my laptop now.
Main computer: 10.3.7
Server: IBM 450mhz tower- Mandrake Linux 10.0
Laptop: Gateway 2.4ghz P4

[brap]

XP Professional on my server. Panther on my Powerbook... I never really touch the server directly, though, everything gets done through OS X. I love this little thing.

[munkle]

I feel the same way about XP right now. I loathe using my laptop now.


It's the little things like lack of exposé and no command-tab etc, which really throw me! Oh and the fact I can get on with what I want to do rather than virus updates/adaware/spybot is always a bonus! ;) :p

Makes me appreciate OSX that much more...*hugs PB*!

[anubis]

Yeah, this question was just asked on November 5, 2003. So not only do we only get 1 new poll a month, it's a recycled poll..

[cyanide]

It's the little things like lack of exposé and no command-tab etc, which really throw me! Oh and the fact I can get on with what I want to do rather than virus updates/adaware/spybot is always a bonus! ;) :p

Makes me appreciate OSX that much more...*hugs PB*!

oh, I feel sick even mentioning this, and am in no way advocating, condoning, or defending windows.. ugh.. but you can hit alt+tab and get the same effect.. just not as pretty, and i dont think you can interact with it with the mouse. must go wash brain... burn clothes... cleanse colon...

[munkle]

oh, I feel sick even mentioning this, and am in no way advocating, condoning, or defending windows.. ugh.. but you can hit alt+tab and get the same effect.. just not as pretty, and i dont think you can interact with it with the mouse. must go wash brain... burn clothes... cleanse colon...

He, he!

Thanks for the tip! It'll make using Windows machine that much more bearable now!

[nagromme]

oh, I feel sick even mentioning this, and am in no way advocating, condoning, or defending windows.. ugh.. but you can hit alt+tab and get the same effect..

Ah ha! Revenge for MS stealing the Apple menu, calling it Start, and using it to shut down the computer! ;)

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

<drooling>Mmm.. Polls...</drooling>

Have only one computer running for the moment, got lots of old machines scattered around, but the iBook is the only one in use.

Running OS X 10.3.7.

[russed]

it has to be 10.3 all the way (apart from when tiger comes out!)

who is still using 10.2??? why!

[ipacmm]

I'm on 10.3.7 on all of my Mac's but my one windows server that is rinning server 2003.

[polyesterlester]

10.3.7 on this 400MHz iMac G3 I'm using currently (with only 128 megs of RAM! And I use Photoshop and Illustrator for a living!), but Apple's sending me a 'free' 1.8GHz iMac G5 (http://www.aspoonfuloflester.com/archives/000024.html) (they're actually just replacing my crazy old iMac G4). I should hopefully get the new computer in a couple of days.

[jeffy.dee-lux]

it has to be 10.3 all the way (apart from when tiger comes out!)

who is still using 10.2??? why!

i finally upgraded to OS X and got 10.2 about two weeks before 10.3 was announced.
That is why:
-I'm waiting till 10.4.
-I signed up on MacRumors... never ... again

(by that i meant, i signed up on mac rumors so i'd be aware of upcoming releases and not waste money on dated products, like say, buying 10.3 now, or buying a power book any time between when they released the G5 power mac and when G5 power books come out :D )

[efoto]

I'm running XP Pro SP2 on my main box at the moment (gaming setup w/ productivity crap too)

However I do have OSX 10.3.- coming on my new PowerBook set to arrive today! I can't wait to compute.

[Trowaman]

Panther on the computer. Tiger on the iPod. Good fun.

Also welcome back Arn and thanks for a new poll.

[johnnowak]

No Free/Open/NetBSD option? Lame.

[johnnowak]

Of course Linux/BSD has alt-tab and Expose-like options...

[wdlove]

Thank you arn for the new poll. ;) I like the suggestion of a new poll each Tuesday, it would be a good start.

Pleased to see that Panther is at almost 88%. Kind of jealous of those that are using Tiger, but it won't be long till we can all join.

[Mainyehc]

It's the little things like lack of exposé and no command-tab etc, which really throw me!

Hmmm... There is a "Cmd-Tab equivalent in Windows. In fact, the new Command-Tab feature from Panther is a rip-off from the Alt-Tab feature (as opposed to the Cmd-Tab feature from Jaguar, which tabbed between applications in the Dock instead), found in Windows since its early days. I remember using it in Windows 3.1, in 1992! It looked so slick and cool, and everyone went "ooh" and "aah" everytime I used that... :p Btw, you are probably aware that the "Alt" key on PC keyboards is the equivalent of the Cmd/Apple key. :rolleyes:

The only difference is that since Windows uses a strange mix of Application-centric approach in some apps like Photoshop and a Window-centric approach in some apps like IE or Word, when you use Alt-Tab you get a confusing set of windows and apps, instead of the neat organized set of open apps which you can quit by using Cmd-Q... I was so used to Alt-tab in Windows that if it wasn't for Exposé, I wouldn't survive without Cmd-Tab in OS X. I kept using that all the time during those two weeks I used Jaguar (my old iMac G4 came with Jaguar in the system DVD and with the Panther upgrade discs bundled. I decided to use Jaguar for a while out of curiosity and nostalgia, so I could both notice the difference and be able to say, one day, that I've used 10.2 for some time :D )

Edit: Beaten to it :o
Anyway, I am, too, glad that Apple ripped off that feature from Windows. You know why? Because what they did wasn't actually a ripoff, it was an *improvement*. Just like what they did with Fast User Switching... Or, more notably, what they did with Bang & Olufsen's scroll wheel. Most people don't know, but the 1G iPod's scroll wheel is an exact copy of a similar device found in a B&O phone (I've held one of those, I know what I'm talking about). However, Apple got that sweet Synaptics technology and improved upon the original concept... As if that wasn't enough, they reinvented the scroll wheel :D and made it even better with its clickable iteration. This is what I love about Apple, they manage to grab the already best idea out there, and make it even better. When was the last time you've seen M$ or Dell (or any other company, for that matter) doing that? ;)

Just like with the iPod, what's most important is not coming first, but making the best-working product. If you can do both, and Apple has done it many times recently, then, even better. ;)

[KREX725]

it has to be 10.3 all the way (apart from when tiger comes out!)

who is still using 10.2??? why!

My question was wondering if the eight people claiming to still use System 8 were serious.

Then again, my parents still have an HP with Win 95, but not as a primary computer.

:p

[mgargan1]

it has to be 10.3 all the way (apart from when tiger comes out!)

who is still using 10.2??? why!

Instead of asking why 10.2, you should ask why 10.0 or 10.1. 10.2 is a great OS, and one of the most stable out there. In comparison, the difference between 10.0-10.1 to 10.2 is much more noticable than going from 10.2 to 10.3. Now of course I have 10.3.7 on my machine, buta lot of people out there don't want to plunk down $129 on software that they know is going to be updated in a little less than 5 months.

But, i do agree with the idea that 10.3 is better than 10.2.

[tom.96]

I still use 9.1. Yeah... I know OSX is much better and I'm living in the last century, but...

OS 9.1 is actually really good for what I need. Surfing, email, WP/SS and even some games. I just love it as it is so fast. I will upgrade to OSX one day tho...

[csubear]

No Free/Open/NetBSD option? Lame.

Okay cmdTaco....


My OSs are in the sig. 100% windows free.

[musicpyrite]

OS X on my iMac, XP Professional (thinking about upgrading to server 2003) on my server, 98SE on my 7 year old pice of junk PC, and system 6-7.5 for all my older Macs.

[yg17]

Running Panther on my 2 Macs. 100% windows free :)

[leekohler]

10.3.7 on my G4 PowerMac and my iBook 14"

[Anonymous Freak]

My main computer (in terms of time spent using it,) is my rev.a 12" PowerBook running 10.3.7.

My main computer (in terms of personal stuff on it like music, photos, and movies,) is my latest-gen eMac running 10.3.7.

My son has an older Pentium 4 running XP SP2. (To hopefully be replaced with a mini soon.)

And I have a very occasionally used Athlon XP system running XP SP2. (It's my 'XP' computer, as it has an AMD Athlon XP processor, running Windows XP, with Office XP, and the motherboard made by Abit has an accompanying drive-bay flash memory card reader called the 'MediaXP'.)

Finally, I have a collection of older Macs that run various Systems from 1.0 to 9.2

[Fender2112]

Did we really need a poll for this? :D

[VincentVega]

Regretably, Windows XP Pro with SP2. Surprisingly stable and completely virus/spyware free (only 'cos I'm paranoid).

Some time in the next year or so, hopefully I'll be able to afford to splash out and buy a Mac of some description with the latest version of OS X.

[rhpenguin]

iBook: OS X.3 & YellowDog
PowerMac: OS X.3 & OS9
Dell Poweredge: Fedora Core 3
HP Proliant: Clark Connect (RH9 Server Variant)
SGI Workstation: Irix

Kinda funny that i have my MCSE in Win2K/Server2003/XP and i dont run them. Guess i know where my heart is.

[Mike Teezie]

Panther here.

[Rocketman]

Aren't the results of this poll evidence that Apple's "system" "just works"?

Rocketman

[CTerry]

Aren't the results of this poll evidence that Apple's "system" "just works"?

Rocketman
If I made a site called PCRumors.com and then had a poll on which OS people used and 99% were using Windows do you think I could claim that was evidence that PCs 'just worked' or some other marketing slogan. Don't get me wrong. I love Macs, but don't be silly :P

[ScottDodson]

10.3.7 on my quicksilver and imac....

EAGERLY awaiting Tiger.....
Apple is gonna' get a lot of money from me this year (stupid shuffle, mac mini, new OS, iWork...) :rolleyes:

[homerjward]

If I made a site called PCRumors.com and then had a poll on which OS people used and 99% were using Windows do you think I could claim that was evidence that PCs 'just worked' or some other marketing slogan. Don't get me wrong. I love Macs, but don't be silly :P
check out http://www.pcrumors.com
i think you'll find an astonishing number of people there use macs, according to a poll they had :p

[wrldwzrd89]

check out http://www.pcrumors.com
i think you'll find an astonishing number of people there use macs, according to a poll they had :p
LOL!

I use Mac OS X v10.3.7 as my primary OS and Windows XP Professional as my secondary OS. The Mac gets anywhere from 75-90% of the usage, while the PC gets 10-25% (25% only occurs when I have a Windows-intensive task to do, which isn't all that often; that doesn't mean my Windows PC doesn't get used on a daily basis, though.)

[chanoc]

working on it... :)

arn

Why not just enable the option to post polls in threads using vBulletin admin control? :confused:

[chanoc]

10.3.7 :)

[yamabushi]

Unfortunately Windows is still dominant where I work and I have been forced to use it as well. The rules have changed recently so that I can now theoretically use a Mac at work but some software and IT department security policies have held me back.

OSX is recognized as having strong security but all application software needs to pass security review. Since the user base is dominated by Windows, applications for OSX have a much lower priority for review which results in delays in deployment.

I need a portable Mac that is powerful enough to run Virtual PC, Windows XP and my application software fairly well. Based on my estimates of the computing power required to run this software at a level of perfomance I am comfortable with I need at least a 1.67GHz G4 with 2GB of RAM.

I will be travelling constantly for the next year and have been in the market for a new laptop. The recent Powerbook revisions unfortunately arrived a week too late since I am about to leave on a trip for several months. I will probably have to wait for the next revision. Until then I will be stuck with a variety of computers and operating systems for various needs both at work and at home.

[mad jew]

A mixture of Panther, XP Pro and Xandros. OSX is easier (user friendly) than Xandros and more reliable than XP IMO.

[ravenvii]

Currently my main OS is OS X Panther, that is until Tiger comes out. (Machine in sig). I also have a Windows XP gaming machine, but it's sitting at home collecting dust waiting for me to sell it. Just a few games to play and beat before I get rid of it. :)

[Mechcozmo]

oh, I feel sick even mentioning this, and am in no way advocating, condoning, or defending windows.. ugh.. but you can hit alt+tab and get the same effect.. just not as pretty, and i dont think you can interact with it with the mouse. must go wash brain... burn clothes... cleanse colon...

That's been the same since Win95 I think.

Ah ha! Revenge for MS stealing the Apple menu, calling it Start, and using it to shut down the computer! ;)

I still don't get that... anyone care to explain?

it has to be 10.3 all the way (apart from when tiger comes out!)

who is still using 10.2??? why!
Because maybe we don't have Panther discs because that whole warning when 10.3.0 came out and "It might...uh.... erase your hard drive.... yeah..." thing scared me. And who really cares if it works fine for now? Tiger is coming out soon enough. A little bit over a year? Its worth it to wait and just skip ahead to Tiger.
Proving my point:
Instead of asking why 10.2, you should ask why 10.0 or 10.1. 10.2 is a great OS, and one of the most stable out there. In comparison, the difference between 10.0-10.1 to 10.2 is much more noticable than going from 10.2 to 10.3. Now of course I have 10.3.7 on my machine, buta lot of people out there don't want to plunk down $129 on software that they know is going to be updated in a little less than 5 months.

But, i do agree with the idea that 10.3 is better than 10.2.

[wrldwzrd89]

I still don't get that... anyone care to explain?
Here goes...

Apple came out with the Mac OS, which had an Apple menu for easy access to global OS-related things. Microsoft saw this concept and tried to improve on it by creating what we now know as the Start menu. At the same time, they introduced an Alt+Tab-driven task switcher, which wasn't pretty, but it was functional, and it was something Apple did not have.

Much later...

Apple releases a new version of Mac OS X (don't remember which one) with a task switcher similar to the Alt+Tab switcher in Windows, only much more interactive, as a means of revenge.

[BigDogg]

I still use 9.1. Yeah... I know OSX is much better and I'm living in the last century, but...

OS 9.1 is actually really good for what I need. Surfing, email, WP/SS and even some games. I just love it as it is so fast. I will upgrade to OSX one day tho...

Same here bro, I would upgrade but I am not sure my old clamshell can handle it ,plus I will hopefully be getting a Powerbook soon. Cheers!
:D

[Eastend]

Usually only behind a week or so on the latest OS update, keep hoping it will speed the machine up in someway, it really never seems to be too different than the previous, unless it's a major update. Running 10.3.8 now.

Brian

[ASP272]

I run Panther (10.3.8) on my home machine and Jaguar (10.2.8) on my work machine. I also have Jaguar (10.2.8) on my Clamshell iBook (366mhz). I just picked up a PC with XP Professional on it and I hate it (got it free from brother). It scares me just to turn it on (viruses, spyware, crashes, SLOW!). Overall, Panther rocks!

[ASP272]

Same here bro, I would upgrade but I am not sure my old clamshell can handle it ,plus I will hopefully be getting a Powerbook soon. Cheers!
:D

Your clamshell iBook can handle OS X just fine. My 366mhz has 320mb ram and I run 10.2.8 on it. It can be a little slow at times, but the upgraded OS is worth it! I also installed a 30gb hard drive to handle the size of OS X. If you don't have at least the 6gb factory drive, I wouldn't bother. The best you can strip OS X down to is about 1.2 or 1.4 gb. Just FYI.

[Dane D.]

My 4 year old daughter uses a old Performa 550 running 7.5.
My 9 year old son uses a eMac 1.25ghz (brandnew- -paper route money he saved up) runs Panther.
My G3/300 B/W runs 9.2.2 and my old Performa 630CD runs 8.1.

I use only one Microsoft app, Outlook Express, because I can't stand Netscape's mail.

[Whistleway]

I use only one Microsoft app, Outlook Express, because I can't stand Netscape's mail.
You might want to try the open-source Thunderbird (from the makers of Firefox). It is kinda pretty neat.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/index.html

[damgpro]

Personally, I think it's better to change the slogan and LET every poll run for a week. Running for just a day isn't much chance for people to vote and discuss, and gives smaller results.

New Poll Tuesdays?

Or a compromise: a weekly poll AND a weekend poll. One opens on Mon., onw on Fri.

Or best of all... a new poll every day BUT have 7 open at once! Monday's poll stays open until the next Monday, etc.

I agree

anyways, I run Mac OS X Panther on my powerbook, got a PC running Windows XP Pro, and SuSE Linux 9.1 Pro

[Sparky's]

I work in Commercial printing as a DTP manager. We have 3 Macs running OS 9.2.2 and 3 windoze machines running W2K Pro and NT 4.0 (RIP)

At home I use OS X 10.2.8 exclusively and have updated my software and haven't had the need to open classic in almost a year.

My range of Software goes from Adobe CS Premium to QuarkXPress, Freehand, OmniPage Pro, and a few others related to Graphic Design.

I wish my boss would shell out a few bucks to resolve our peripherals (sp) issue and let me finish the migration to OS X.

[bigandy]

OS X 10.3.8 on the Mac Mini
OS X 10.4 on the PowerBook

Windoze 2003 Advanced Server with Exchange 2003 Server on the.. ..you guessed it, server!

And a Cisco router :D

[BigDogg]

Your clamshell iBook can handle OS X just fine. My 366mhz has 320mb ram and I run 10.2.8 on it. It can be a little slow at times, but the upgraded OS is worth it! I also installed a 30gb hard drive to handle the size of OS X. If you don't have at least the 6gb factory drive, I wouldn't bother. The best you can strip OS X down to is about 1.2 or 1.4 gb. Just FYI.

I probably would if I had the 6 gb factory hd , but I have the 3 gb and 300 mhz.... :(

[virividox]

os x for my macs
xp sp2 for windows machine back home

[BigDogg]

I probably would if I had the 6 gb factory hd , but I have the 3 gb and 300 mhz.... :(

But again I am probably getting a new Powerbook pretty soon- at most by the end of the year.

[StarbucksSam]

10.3.8

[Sunrunner]

Does that mean somebody owes me a whole lot of overtime for working weekends 5 days a week all this time? :p :D


hmmm, how exactly do you work weekends 5 days a week? Wouldnt that indicate your only working on workdays? ;)

[Sunrunner]

10.3.8

Thats likely to be the same answer for about 85% of the respondents...

[SFVCyclone]

I use 10.3.8 at work and home. at work it's on an old 400mhz G4, but it still gets the job done, archiving jobs on cd's, pre-press shop. and at home well it's on a dual 800. Has any one had this problem, a slow down of the start up after the log in screen? i have de-fragged and done all kinds of things and it is still slow.

[adamjay]

10.3.8 on my pb and the wife's ibook.
XP Pro on both our PC desktops.

we work from home and need the multi-platform.

[puckhead193]

What a dumb poll everyone here is going to say the best OS in the world (Unitl tiger comes out) 10.3.8 :rolleyes:
In case your woudering 10.3.8

[Patmian212]

Windows xp home service pack 2 :p
OS 8.5 :cool:

[PCMacUser]

Windows XP, with PearPC running 10.3.8 windowed...

[BarfBag]

Windows XP: Home Edition
SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional

That's my dual boot. I want a Mac, but can't afford it yet. Can't wait to get a job this summer.

[ClarkeB]

What Operating System are you Running as your Primary OS?

What other operating system is there? Mac OS! (10.3.8 to be exact ;) )

[Vader]

Mac OS 10.3.8


Can't wait for 10.4.1!!!!!!

[ClarkeB]

Can't wait for 10.4.1!!!!!!

Can't wait till 11.0