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My favorite version of Windows overall is probably XP Professional 64-bit edition, though on my laptop I'm currently running Windows 7 Home Premium. I couldn't find any 64-bit XP drivers for my sound card or GPU, and I didn't want to limit my machine's performance by going with the normal 32-bit version of XP. Not to say that the 32-bit version of XP is bad, as I still run it in a Virtualbox VM for apps with compatibility problems, but there's no point on installing it on a machine with more than 2GB of RAM, and my laptop has 6GB.

I've also used various distros of Linux, two of my favorites being Crunchbang and Linux Mint. Linux is a great OS for day-to-day tasks like writing documents and surfing the web, but the one thing that keeps me from switching to it full time is the fact that it's absolutely terrible for gaming. If you're lucky enough to have a supported graphics card, you can get certain games running through Wine or the native port of Steam, but it's not really worth it since Windows still delivers better gaming performance, and much much better compatibility.

I have Ubuntu 13.10 and backtrack 5 (though I may replace BT5 with kali linux soon)

Looks like we have a few other BT5 users here, but that's to be expected on a site for people with aspergers. We can't make friends IRL so we make our homes online. Inevitably, something comes along and threatens our virtual sanctuary so we learn to deffend it because while some people think it's just some shady website, to us it's home, it's where we go as soon as we get back from school or work to visit with the people we care about... or maybe that's just me...

On my main PC:
- Windows 7 Black Edition, 64-bit
- Fedora 20 "Heisenbug"

On my secondary/admin PC:
- Windows XP 64-bit

Various 'buntus, especially Xubuntu. CentOS via Stella. Also Slitaz, Damn Small Linux, and Puppy! Had a PC-BSD box but got tired of package manager crashing it. But will definitely get a FreeBSD non gui box going at some point.

Spooky - Windows 7 Ultimate

Sol - Windows 7 Home premium + Linux Mint

My new tablet yet to be named - Windows 7 Professional.

Spooky and the tablet will have their own Installations of Linux mint soon.

Got my laptop working again and installed Arch Linux on it and I'm trying out i3 in place of KDE which I used previously.

Just got a new netbook recently that runs Windows 8.1.

I'm currently using Windows 7 at the moment. I recently installed the 64 bit version of Windows XP on my secondary desktop PC, which I plan to upgrade to Windows 7 as soon as Microsoft ceases support for XP. I wanted to experience XP again before it dies; many a fond memory was formed using XP, so it has a bit of a nostalgic effect on me.

I am also an avid GNU/Linux and FreeBSD user, and I tend to switch off between GNU/Linux distributions and FreeBSD. My favorite GNU/Linux distributions are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and Sabayon. My current GNU/Linux distribution, which is located on my secondary 128 GB SSD hard drive, is the GNOME edition of Ubuntu 13.10.

Still using the current version of #! Linux, but upgraded to the 3.12 Liquorix Kernel yesterday.

windows 7 ultimate currently however the laptop im getting from DSA has windows 8 ;(

I use Debian Sid on all my home systems, and Debian 7 on all my servers.

H8n Windows like there's no tomorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow
Why must Microsoft be so tyrannic?
So tyrannic
So tyrannic

Can you guess which song I'm referring to?

Win7 Ultimate 64 bit, plus a Linux partition. I have not paid for an OS since the first release of XP Home back when I was in high school, companies want to charge so much for an OS and I figure they make plenty of sales regardless. I do not steal or pirate, mind you, I always seem to know someone who has legitimate manufacturer copies and spare keys. And then with Linux it is obviously free.

I have no need for anything but Windows and Linux and I mostly use Windows because I play PC games a lot. The beauty of PC gaming is the Windows legacy, I can play games from the early 90s with a little bit of elbow grease sometimes, this is something I love over game consoles, console games get lost to time as they age, but you can always seem to find old school PC games quite easily. In fact, I think I should play the original Fallout sometime this month.