What do you use? Windows, Linux, Mac..

[splatmatic]

Hey guys, I was wondering what operating systems you guys are running and what your Specs are. Ill start :

Gaming Machine:
Winblows XP HOME SP2
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
1.5Gig's of ram
Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT
Dual Monitor Setup (1440x900, 1280x1024)

Laptop #1:
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)
Intel PIII-M 1.1GHz
333MB of ram
Onboard video card

Laptop #2:
Dual Boot (Winblows XP HOME SP2 and Ubuntu 7.04)
Intel Celeron Mobile 1.5GHz
512MB
Onbard Video Card

Server 1:
Debian 4.0 (Etch)
Intel P4 2.8GHz
1.5Gig's of ram
2x 500GB HDD's
MythTV Backend Server (1 HD-Tuner, 1 Digital Tuner)
Headless Machine

Server #2: (co-located)
Debian 3.1
AMD Athlon 3200+
1.5Gig's of ram
(3x 32 slot CSS servers 66tic, 1x 100tick CSS private server)
Currently Looking for a new home (internap was to expensive for too college students )

I plan on building a MythTV frontend box after finals. If I didn't game and didn't use VB for school, I'd be 100% linux user.

[t.check]

Um, I'm not too technical, but this is the computer I have:

HP Pavilion dv2025nr
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit (not too bad)
AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology
nVidia graphics


If I keep listing stuff, my head will start hurting.

[Josh]

Few peices of kit you have there splat!

I'm on windows XP ~ won't bother listing the specs there too outdated lol.

[sims4you]

I use a mixture of XP & Vista

[Josh]

Is vista really as bad as it sounds?

[splatmatic]

vista is crap from what my friends tell me. My one friend told me that his comp. idles using 590megs of ram.. wtf?! on my gaming machine I idle around 110megs... I think theres a lill to much pretty things on the desktop. Now i guess if all you use your computer for is checking email and surfing the web, then I guess vista would be alright.. Not gaming though, screw directx 10, im staying with XP until they nolonger provide support.

P.S. josh, Its nice when you work part time at a doctors office eh?

[Josh]

Heh on the gadget show I saw the bit where they were setting Vista up - took like 5 hours or something then plenty of things went wrong lol. I'll be sticking with XP too - don't use the PC for anything hardc0re :P

[Andan]

Windows XP Professional with SP2

Specs:
Pentium D 805
1GB Dual-Channeled DDR400 RAM
eVGA nVidia 7600GS w/ 256MB of VRAM (AGP 8x)
ASUS P5PE-VM Motherboard
SB Audigy LS
Black case, Black 19" Samsung LCD, 7 Case Fans with controller,
Black Logitech G7, Black/Silver BenQ keyboard, and Black Logitech 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers.


And my plans for a better system went down the drain. Won't happen for at least another year. So hopefully by then Vista's bugs will be worked out.

[t.check]

I really don't think Vista is that bad, honestly. It is super graphic intesive, though, with DreamScene backgrounds and the new Aero design (very cool). Also, I think that users that think it is buggy are full of it (sorry if that isn't a family friend phrase). I haven't seen one bug yet, except on YouTube, but they try to find things wrong. Security is much improved, but can get to bugging you. That allow/deny is the thing that really bugs me. However, you can just click "Remember this answer." Some of the allow/denies dont allow that option, but for your security.

Lots of cool new extras, like Windows Meeting Space which is great for businesses.

Overall, I'm impressed. Customer support AMAZES me! They WILL not stop until the computer bows to them.

[Calash]

Main PC -

Dell XPS Gen 5
3.6ghz Pentium 4 (Can go dual core...just waiting for prices to come down)
3gb memory
250gb hd

2 Partitions

1 - Ubuntu Feisty running Beryl, Screenlets, and Avant dock. Also have Fluxbox installed for some games. VMWare Server has a XP machine for the few apps I need, and a OSX machine....because I wanted to see if it could be done

2 - WIndows XP SP2 - For the games that I can not get to run under Cedega


PVR

Custom built AMD Thunderbird 2.0ghz.
1.5gb Memory
Primary HD - 80GB
Secondary HD - 120GB
Haupauge PVR-150 TV Tuner card

Running Ubuntu 7.04 and MythTV for PVR function


3 - Apple iBook (The old clamshell type)
...300mhz processor
96meg of memory
8gb drive

Running......you guessed it...Ubuntu 7.04. Actually it is Xubuntu, I loaded the light weight XFCE Desktop manager and use that for my primary session. It is a toy...too see how far I can push the old tech

There is also a XP laptop, but that belongs to my GF. I do support it, if that counts

[sims4you]

Originally Posted by Josh

Is vista really as bad as it sounds?

Sorry for the late reply

I think vista is great. It looks much more cleaner

Easier to use, havent come accross any problems upto now (fingers crossed)

[Josh]

Lucky you eh, lol. Did you see the digg story Joshua posted in the other thread? made me chuckle.

[Calash]

I have read nothing but bad things about Vista...then again I am hanging out in the Ubuntu forum lately

Of course, if you want the totally unbiased opinion on the debate there is only one true source of knowledge

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...ord2=Vista+bad

I think they rigged the fight

[Cirtex Joshua]

I'll let you all know about Vista in about 10 days or so. I guarantee its not as bad as all the people who really dont know computers are making it out to be

I betcha my dual core processor ,and 512 MB graphics card can take care of it.

[BibleOnWeb]

XP on desktop and Vista on laptop.
Gonna install Ubunto on my old PC which is 700MHZ with 128 RAM tonight.