I noticed a few people mention they use safari. Just curious what mix of OS users the fixed life represents.


edit: I guess I should mention I am an os x user. have experience with everything but "other". which means I am a geek, but not a nerd ;)

i'm an os **** :)
win xp, suse 9.2, osx 10.2

Fedora Core 3.

xp sp2 and slackware 10

win xp with a bad case of OS X envy. I've got a dock, the windows skinned, and the taskbar made invisible.

I'm running Mac OS X and will continue to use Mac OS pretty much indefinitely. I will, however, branch out when I get that SGI workstation...

I've used so many operating systems, it's a joke. Here's a non-exhaustive list of OS's I've had moderate to extensive experience with:

MacOS X/Classic, Windows (all), OS/2, BeOS, Most major linux distro's including a custom kernel roll, Free/Net/OpenBSD (my primary OS before I got a mac), Amiga and Sun Solaris.

MacOS X is the clearly superior one.

XP mainly. My "server" is Debian. I liked Redhat early on (like pre-2.0) but it became too much bloatware; too much "shield the user from editing a config file" crap. I even had a copy of Redhat 4.0 for DEC Alpha (anyone remember the cheap AlphaStations you could get and run WinNT and Linux on?). Oh, and the memories of Yggdrasil and Slackware are bliss.

Debian

In order of use

Mac OS X (majority of the time)
Knoppix
HPUX (ran on "green hardware" which dual booted into NeXT step) if you dont get it you won't care.

Blast -
I had one, it ran a 500 chip and 512mb of parity ram. It was not cheep but I never got it to run TRUE 64 so I gave it away for the tax refund. It remains the most expensive mistake I have ever made, and hopefully it will stay that way.

Milo

But man DEC Alphas rocked at Seti@Home!

I started out with DOS and early on switched to OS/2, all the way to Warp4.
I had trouble letting go of OS/2.
I got emotionally attached to it.

Now I use Win98SE at home and XP at work.

My next computer will use Linux.

For browsers I use Mozilla and Opera.
I prefer Opera.

It warms my heart to see so many OS X and linux nerds on the board.

My main machine (iBook) is an OS X machine, but my desktop is a gentoo machine. I also have a swappable hard drive on my desktop for XP, but I rarely use it. There are a couple of software packages I use every now and then that require winblows. I hate MS.

I'm a linux sys admin for a research group so I support several gentoo, redhat, and OS X machines. No winblows!!!

What no UNIX??? No solaris???? Jeeze I bet you all aren't even running your ram in a liquid cooled chamber...

Up the Mainframes!

What no BeOs? No NeXT? (Ok, OS-X is practically NeXT.) How about Palm? No Apple ][? I run all of these (at least occasionally)... but I voted for Linux, cause it's the one I enjoy running most.

NeXT has been represented.. a few comments up.. ive been apple since my IIe way back when.. i also had an xp thingy but i gave it to my dad.. my conclusion after using lots of OS's: they all have their special moments of sucking the life and relaxation out of you..but i keep going back for more

Never did windows .... Dos to Linux in '96 though I have a Sparc box and an Irix box, It's all Linux now...Slackware

Jim

another one for debian!

Last I checked, BSD is UNIX.

I ran BeOS from betas to the final version! It was pretty cool running 3 DiVX movies at once on my 200mhz and dragging them around. That was an awesome OS.

Liquid cooled chamber... another use for beer!

Just a Linux tart here. The Man makes me use a dozen Winvariants, but that's work and that doesn't count.

I'm currently Mac-less, but I do love OSX, and I'm looking forward to the G5 Powerbooks -- then I'll rejoin the Mac community. In the mean time, I'm perfectly happy on my built machine, dual-boot Fedora Core and XP Pro. I use to dual-boot Redhat and NT on my old workstation. I really don't care what operating system I use - they're just tools, and they all have their strengths. No fanboy here.

Debian at work. Getting a mac soon, stuck with a xp box for now (at home).

if we go off of core code, then osx is unix. I'm not willing to make those kind of blanket statements. :)

i asked this same question last year - will be interesting to see if results have changed:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=47339

very happy mac os x user here...anti-virus has just expired on my pc and i'm trying to decide whether to renew that for a machine i rarely use...gosh i like not having those kinds of worries on my mac. hoping the mac mini draws a few more into the cult...hehe.

Can we just make a geek related issues sticky.