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What is your star o.s.
windows 7 (new) 29%  29%  [ 11 ]
windows vista 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
windows xp 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
windows me 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
windows 2000 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
windows nt 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
windows 98 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
windows 95 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
windows 1.01 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
ubuntu desktop 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
ubuntu netbook 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
ubuntu sever 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
other ubuntu 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
some type of linux 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
mac 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
mac os x 24%  24%  [ 9 ]
apple II 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
macintosh 6.0-9.0 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
other mac/apple/macintosh 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
other o.s 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 38

braiden
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03 Jul 2010, 9:32 pm

What is your star o.s.?
Please tell me.
Is your o.s. not listed in the poll tell me.
by the way i am 10



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03 Jul 2010, 10:06 pm

I upgraded to Windows 7 almost a year ago and am quite happy with it.



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03 Jul 2010, 10:20 pm

my laptop has windows 7 on it (subject to change)



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03 Jul 2010, 10:22 pm

my mom will not let me run ubuntu and windows so I sometimes run it from the cd.



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03 Jul 2010, 10:31 pm

emacs



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03 Jul 2010, 11:08 pm

We run 3 of them here, Mac os, windows xp, and Linux.

I have noticed that computers are like tools
in your toolbox.

A screwdriver, a hammer, a saw, tweezers, a file,
all tools for different jobs.


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03 Jul 2010, 11:21 pm

One thing you could try if Ubuntu really interests you is Wubi. Basically what that does is install Ubuntu within Windows and adds a boot entry at start up. No partitioning or anything required. If you don't like it, you can uninstall it from the control panel like any other Windows program. Perfectly and completely harmless.



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03 Jul 2010, 11:55 pm

I'm a multiple OS user. I like to explore and have experience with as many different software platforms as possible. So far I've only used the Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms, including Windows 98, XP, and 7, Classic Mac, Mac OS X, and Debian Linux. Of these, the only one that really sucked was Windows 98. I don't like Classic Mac either, because it doesn't have the power and control of a command line.

I actually feel insecure at the fact that these are the only OS's I've used. I'd like to experience what some of the other OS's have to offer, and I've been especially interested in some of the lesser known non-Windows, non-Unix systems like AmigaOS, Haiku, and OpenVMS.


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04 Jul 2010, 12:00 am

dt18 wrote:
One thing you could try if Ubuntu really interests you is Wubi. Basically what that does is install Ubuntu within Windows and adds a boot entry at start up. No partitioning or anything required. If you don't like it, you can uninstall it from the control panel like any other Windows program. Perfectly and completely harmless.


Are you the same person who told me I should use Wubi after I said I had booted Linux from a live CD? Do you understand that you're basically just telling people another way to do something that they've already accomplished anyway? I don't see how this is supposed to help, unless someone specifically said "Booting from a disk doesn't work. I need an alternative method." or something to that effect.


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04 Jul 2010, 12:14 am

The difference is if you boot from the live CD, you can't save any settings. You use Wubi, you're settings are saved. Also, this was in response to braiden's comment about his mom not allowing him to install Ubuntu. Sorry I forgot to mention that.



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04 Jul 2010, 9:55 am

I enjoy Classic Mac OS (6-9), but that can't run any modern software, so I choose OS X.


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04 Jul 2010, 1:38 pm

Allow YouTube to explain...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8FnACj25xM[/youtube]



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04 Jul 2010, 7:14 pm

I hate that song. Autotune is NOT cool.



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05 Jul 2010, 2:51 am

Jookia wrote:
I hate that song. Autotune is NOT cool.


Autotune is the best invention in the whole of music, I have the I Am T-Pain app on my iPhone :P



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05 Jul 2010, 2:17 pm

I have both Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my computer, I use 7 for gaming and flash applications online but Ubuntu for everything else. Ubuntu is just a little bit faster and is less likely to have issues with viruses and stuff and that's primarily why I use it more. But I've got my computer set up so that certain programs, including firefox, share data so theres really no negative to using multiple OS's for me, just which ever will do what I'm trying to do at the moment better.


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05 Jul 2010, 2:23 pm

Ubuntu now, I have nightmares with windows and it seems pretty hopeless to me so tbh, and yet, my laptop seems to be really fast but million times faster with ubuntu 64bit version and 4GB of ram.


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