If OSX didn't exist...

[macDonalds]

What OS would you be using?

For me, probably Ubuntu. I mean, I would still need to dual boot into Windows for work, but I think Ubuntu would be my main OS.

How about you?

 

[robbieduncan]

Some form of Linux. Or maybe Solaris.

 

[bartelby]

I'd be using Mac OS 10, or maybe Mac OS 9.9...

 

[djchiena]

+1 for Ubuntu

 

[sOwL]

I'd be using Mac OS 10, or maybe Mac OS 9.9...

erm, should i tell you that Mac OS 10 == OSX? besides, the op actually means if mac didnt exist...

+1 Ubuntu

 

[bartelby]

erm, should i tell you that Mac OS 10 == OSX?

No! Really?
Say it's not true!!!

besides, the op actually means if mac didnt exist...

That's not what the OP asked though...

 

[scaredpoet]

I'm already using Ubuntu on a server and a desktop, so I'd probably use it full time. Most of my work is *nix-based anyway, and OpenOffice would handle the rest of the stuff I would even remotely need Windows for.

 

[nick9191]

Vista

 

[Mindflux]

Likely FreeBSD or XP until Windows 7 came along.

 

[Loge]

Some form of Linux, I guess, it's what I was using before OS X.

 

[fpbecker]

OpenStep.

 

[TH-Gunner]

Suse Linux 11

I encourage anyone to take a look at Suse anyway, whether your main OS is OSX or windows or whatever!

http://www.opensuse.org/en/

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

Pen and paper.

 

[FF_productions]

Windows...vista

 

[smurfjammer]

NextStep/OpenStep or Amiga OS

 

[bobr1952]

Well for me, it was the Mac I investigated as an alternative to Windows--not necessarily OS X. So I guess the question for me would be what would I be using if there were no Macs and in that case I never would have looked for an alternative to Windows so I guess it would be Vista.

 

[Cynicalone]

Without OS X would there be Mac's?

If not then probably some god awful Windows program.

And btw you wouldn't be using Vista since it's a copy of OS X gone horribly wrong.

 

[TEG]

I'd be using Mac OS 13, with Internet Explorer 8 and Netscape 9.

I like one of the few people who actually liked OS 9.

TEG

 

[powderblue17]

Didn't Jobs still use NextStep as his main OS even after he went back to Apple instead of Classic MacOS. I remember seeing that somewhere but don't know if it's true. Maybe I would be using that if it were continually being updated or if not then probably Windows or maybe BeOS if it had ever gained a market position. Never really cared for Linux at all.

 

[robbieduncan]

I like one of the few people who actually liked OS 9.

I bought my first Mac with OS9 on it. I was intending installing linux on it, but the OSX Public Beta came out so I used that instead. I really didn't like OS9 but I had to boot back into it to play DVDs. Those were the good old days

 

[Tosser]

XP or Vista for sure. I need a supported system for my apps.

 

[11800506]

Sadly I would probably use Windows because of the fact that it has become the ubiquitous OS.

 

[RITZFit]

I'd still be truckin along w/ xp...heck, I still use xp for some stuff

 

[7031]

Windows Vista here.

I'd use Ubuntu, but I need my Windows software and dual booting is just a PITA.

 

[ingenious]

Unfortunately, I'd still be stuck on Windows XP, maybe Vista by now.

I was such a MS fanboy...