What operating system do you use?

Jam
I JUST got XP a few weeks ago on my new PC. I had a few adjustments to make learning it, but I like it very much so far!

That poll was done about 2 months ago. XP had over 50%. I have XP and ME. Had XP and XP till the drive crashed and the disk was scratched.

Thanks WOM, I remembered too late about that poll....silly me!

XP Pro, with Dec 9 2002 LiteSTEP build as shell...

Is there a good reason why you use XP pro, my friend?
I use Home Edition and don't see the need for the pro version...
Just curious....?

XP Pro trimmed back and Mandrake Linux 9.
Jam,I prefer XP Pro for the few extra business type extras .... and I removed the Home Video and that sort of garbage.
It does have (IMHO!) a little better security built in as well.

Win2000Pro currently. Had Me, but it proved so reliably unreliable it had to go. Is XP-Pro worth the extra $100?

Thanks for the input wombat_1, that helps for sure..

and mrbiotech, that is what I'm trying to ascertain....

And btw... Window ME was the absolutely worst OS that Microshaft ever perpetrated on us.... >

XP home and pro are built on Win NT and 2000 with a pepperdash of the 9x series for comfort and backwards compatibility so gamers can game and the lamers can lame *joking*

From what I've heard win 2000Pro is still the best as far as security. With XP home I'm constantly updating my security and my friend has the "pro" version and has to update the same stuff. I say, if you're happy with 2000 than stay with it but if you constantly have to reboot because of bad memory handling then XP is the way to go. Just MHO...

If it ain't broke though...don't fix it.

Disk 1: Dual booting XP Pro ( I am doing this thru profiles not two full installs of XP Pro ) one boot with Litestep the other with Exploder.
Disk 2: With two partition one is Mandrake the other is Licoris Linux.

Now THAT sounds not only very interesting, but also a challenge indeed....!

The challenge for me was I could not for the life of me get XP Pro to boot from LILO. It would start then go blue screen... I had to use the XP command console and re-write the MBR. Then XP would boot. So now I am using Boot Magic to manage all the BR's. Everything works so I am happy!

Boot Magic! Does the trick, I own that myself!....

Disk 1: Windows XP Home
Disk 2: Dual-boot between Windows 98 and SuSE Linux

Using Nicklock http://www.nicklock.com/ to between the two disks.

Win2000 at home (cos its cheap and XP isn't)
NT at work (cos they're cheap) and asmattering of XP (which is nice!)

I always go for the bells and whistles, so I like XP better than any other flavor of Win...
A man's got to have his toys....

Currently, Win2K, but in about a week or two, OS X Jaguar

I'm with you JM, XP Home for me. Err, me alone, not that other one.

Well...XP Pro, with Win 3.11, Win 95, Win 98, Win 98 s/e, and QNX all loadable as Virtual Machines, a second disk caddy of Win XP Pro [as backup]...and a self-contained zip drive OS of Win 3.11 accessed by boot disk.

All 3.11s use Calmira as shell, not exploder...and all 9x and beyond use LiteSTEP as shell [varying vers]......QNX is bog-standard...

Hmmmmm....all I can say to that is...Wow!

PC#1: XP Home, RedHat 8

PC#2: BeOS, RedHat8, RedHat7.3, SuSE 8.1, SuSE 8 w/ Ximian Gnome, Mandrake 9

And 5 Macs running Jaguar

I current'y switched to RedHat 8...so far I really like it, easy to install and the best part, it's FREE !! however, you do need a high end machine to run it in the GUI mode, of course...it comes with the basic everyday software, Office stuff, Acrobat reader, etc...I think I'll stick with this for a while...
my other PC is XP......ehh

I have a XP box and a ME box. The XP box is what I use 90% of the time. The ME box is for some games and for testing skins on that older OS.