What is your main OS?

[SkyBell]

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I run 10.5 on my eMac, and Windows XP on my netbook and desktop. All three get used pretty equally.

I've been thinking about putting 10.4 on the eMac, since it kind of struggles with 10.5 on only 512 MB of RAM, and I really like the stability and look and feel of 10.4. But there's so many of my favorite apps that require 10.5 these days. Maybe when they all go Intel only, I'll be able to bring myself to do it...

 

[scottness]

Snow Leopard mostly and XP for the rare times I need Windows.

 

[ColinC12]

Snow Leopard at home, a pleasure to use; Windows XP at work, no choice in the matter.

 

[macrem]

Snow Leopard at home, a pleasure to use; Windows XP at work, no choice in the matter.

At my office, many people with no choice in the matter bring their own Mac laptops or have installed Linux on their desktops & just don't ask IT for support.

 

[Eric S.]

At my office, many people with no choice in the matter bring their own Mac laptops or have installed Linux on their desktops & just don't ask IT for support.

But if you need to run Windows apps that doesn't help.

 

[macrem]

But if you need to run Windows apps that doesn't help.

I have the opposite issue needing Mac apps. Also on Windows I find that often getting the right tool means searching on the internet, wading through a sea of shareware or adware, trying to avoid malware, filling out forms, asking around before finding a suitable tool which is either part of OS X & Linux or very easy to get.

 

[roadbloc]

But if you need to run Windows apps that doesn't help.

75% of the time there is an open source alternative to Windoze apps, that I often find better or easier to use. And if not... WINE tries it's best. But supposing it's your job, it's better just sticking with the system rather than getting fired.

 

[daneoni]

Leopard....just haven't bothered to update to Snow Leopard yet even though i have the disk i my desk

 

[MrBrekke]

OSX is the my main OS and i have VM ware running win 7 ultimate and win server 2008 R2 for my MS beta testing.

 

[OllyW]

Work - Windows XP

Home - 90% Snow Leopard / 10% Windows 7

 

[sputacus]

Windows 7 (~ 45%) - Work, Bible software, Garmin GPS software
Snow Leopard (~ 100%) - photography, personal, work, run Windows 7, etc

Snow Leopard is my favorite OS. And since Windows 7 is providing such drastic improvement in performance over XP, I'm actually enjoying using Windows (7) on my MBP (I felt I was using XP only when I had to - even though it had decent performance on my system). I use VMware Fusion 3.

I bought my first Mac in February...

 

[mslide]

At my office, many people with no choice in the matter bring their own Mac laptops or have installed Linux on their desktops & just don't ask IT for support.

This is what myself and the other mac users do. I'm thankful that our IT department aren't die-hard anti-mac folks as they know about. Unfortunately, I'm still forced to use my windows machine about 25% of the time. If only the excel-happy people would stop using vba in their macros (or not use excel at all if I had my way), my windows time would be cut in half.

 

[TonyK]

There is a problem with the poll. The percentages add to more than 100%

Here are the corrected values based on the reported numbers.

OS X 10.4 Tiger					4		1.90%
OS X 10.5 Leopard				28		13.33%
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard				104		49.52%
Windows XP					22		10.48%
Windows Vista					4		1.90%
Windows 7					29		13.81%
Ubuntu Linux					10		4.76%
BSD (FreeBSD, PC-BSD...ect...)			3		1.43%
Other						6		2.86%

Responses					210		100.00%

 

[*LTD*]

Snow Leopard, full 64-bit.