I use Windows Vista. Though it can be problematic, I'm a lot more comfortable on a Windows-based machine. I have used Macs in the past and I like them. I just don't like their keyboard layout and their price tag. Also IMHO if a Mac breaks it's dead. If a PC breaks it's fixable most of the time!

I'm on OSX leopard. I love the mouse/keyboard shortcuts, dashboard, calendar integration, lovely Pure creative machine

i use XP and OSX Leopard

I'm a diehard XP person. For me it makes sense to use what most of my customers are using

I use Win. XP. I've tried Linux (KNOPPIX) too, but it wasn't really for me.

I'm on Vista Used to have a 24" iMac Using Vista is horrible after using OS X.

Ubuntu 6.10 LTS. In the process of trying to upgrade to 8.04, but my machine is not having any of it...

The reason I started using this OS is because my mac died, and I couldn't bear to work in XP/ windoze . I had Linux dual booting on my mac, so I had a little familiarity, but I'd never used it exclusively.

Now, I think I can say I'll always use linux. It's very stable, the licences are free, the software is free and very good, highly functional with many features. It takes a little bit of poking at first when you install, but other than that, it's fantastic.

It's not as pretty as OSX, but depending on what kind of mac you have, I'd say it's at least, if not more stable. I was a fan of the older ppc based macs - the newer intel chipped ones seem more prone to problems...

Right this should be fun I use

 

Microsoft XP at home for most things

 

Microsoft Visa at work

 

OSX Leopard on my mac for testing sites

 

Microsoft Windows 95 for playing my old PC adventure games...I am a very big fan of adventure games and 95 is the best OS for playing the older ones

XP64. I'd thought about going over to a linux distro, but there just isn't the support for industry standard apps yet

XP, tried some Linux distros out of curiosity.

First one was a long time ago, I think it was Red Hat 6 ... total failure in terms of user experience, tried Ubuntu a year ago and thought it was pretty nice but not excellent and definitely not a permanent solution.

 

Concerning open source vs. paid software ... whatever makes you more productive, faster etc. If you can also save money than it's perfect but I'd put productivity and user experience first.

Windows XP Proffesional on my desktop, Home edition on my laptop.

I use Vista home edition because that is what came on my laptop.

 

I use XP at work, and Windows 2000 on the PC at home.

 

However, I have plans to buy an iMac, so hopefully one day I'll be using whatever OS comes on that.

I use Mac OSX (Tiger), Mac OSX (Leopard), Windows XP SP3, Linux Ubuntu 8.04, and Linux Xandros, all at the same time on different computers.

 

OSX Leopard is my favorite, followed closely by Ubuntu 8.04

I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 and I'm really enjoying it. It's very slick, and I've had a much easier time of configuring it than last time, Using FF3 now

WDF looks weird, though - all the fonts are monospace except for when I reply to a thread. The space I type into uses my default font... strange.

Highly recommend this OS to anyone though - it's a very nice interface.

Mac OS X (Leopard) at home and Windows XP at Work.

 

My favourite is Mac OS X Leopard because it's beautifully designed and put together, everything feels easy to use, it's got some amazing applications, it's just generally fun to use and I'm more productive on it.

 

The Apple laptops and desktops are also stunning examples of product design done right.

 

Can you tell design means a lot to me?

My Laptop looks nice and its not a mac

 

I am using Vista as the main machine but I also have a MacMini which I use occasionally.

 

Also got two home servers running CentOS and Server 2008.

Vista Business at home (we get it for free through MSDN at university ), either XP Pro or OSX Leopard at uni depending on where we are and Ubuntu on my laptop as it's pretty old and can't run anything past 98 at speed.

 

I kind of have the feeling that Vista is the new Windows ME, although I use it as it's really good for networking. For everything else though it's abysmal.

A bit of a combo...

 

My main laptop (used at work and home) runs XP Pro SP2.

 

My home server (mainly a file and media server - yay torrents) runs Win2K Pro SP4 - though it's dying and when I buy a new boot disk (or indeed a new server) this summer, I suspect I'll set up an Ubuntu 8 + Win2K3 dual boot. Been meaning to get stuck into Linux for ages.

 

The backup laptop runs Win2K Pro SP4.

 

One or two people at work have moved to Vista, but you wouldn't get me going down that road. Oh no.

Desktop: Windows XP Pro (it's what I'm used to)

Laptop: Ubuntu 8.04 (Learning something new )

I use Win Vista Ultimate because my father has taken it to me and we've got LAN site at home, so it is easy to maintain a balance

And we have a Linux distribution (Red hat, I think) in our high school...

Mac OS X 10.5 almost exclusively for everything except testing purposes. Reason.. familiarity. I am way too entrenched in Mac OS X.

 

To move to Windows for work purposes would mean a massive drop in productivity for me.. I must say though, if my Mac laptop ever dies on me, I will consider all options!

OK - my install of Ubuntu 8.04 was corrupt, so I've had to just wipe the whole thing and start again. I've now got Ubuntu Studio 7.10 which has only been installed for 30 mins, but already seems to be more stable than my last install. I don't think there's anything wrong with 8.04, I just think something went wrong during the install.

This one looks nice though - lots of synths and other toys to try out