Operating System Stats

I upgraded to vista and I really don't see the point of it, oh well at least I didn't pay. and I still think PC > Mac ;)

Yeah I be one of your XP users. I actually dislike Vista badly. I still prefer PC over Mac but I have been using Mac a bit more recently and think its pretty good but still prefer pc.

I tried Windows Vista for a few weeks. It was the worst experience with any operating system to date, and i had to live through 98 T_T

The thing is just such a resource hog my gaming rig would even lag because of it (I have 4Gb DDR2 800Mhz DualChannel, a 5200+ X2, and a 9800GTX+) I switched back to XP because the benefits of DX10 were not worth the lag and the crashes and the constant pop-ups.

I upgraded to Vista64 because its the most stable and compatible of the MS 64-bit OSes (XP64 is horrible), because my computer currently has 8GB of memory, and you need a 64-bit OS to address that much RAM. I also game on my PC a lot, and say what you will about DirectX 10, but I like to run my PC games at the best quality on my NVIDIA GTX 280.

I use XP, I wanna get a Mac, but still use my PC

Use Vista, been tweaking alooong time on it before it was functionable (never again). So next time i format, i might go back to XP.

lol at winME XDD

Im one of the XP version, but...as soon as I can, wanna be Linux user.

In my job I work with pretty much any open operating system you can think of, so I've had my fair share of usage diversity. The result of my experiences is my main machine is XP for gaming, my HTPC in the living room is Vista (for mce), my router is a linux box, and my laptop for going places where I need a screen is a macbook.

It's one of those thing you just can't help.

Legitimate XP user. I also have legitimate Vista in another partition but only boot there to test something every blue moon. Need to upgrade hardware before considering using Vista, and me wishes Microsoft would be cool for a change and upgrade Vista users to Windows 7 or whatever the replacement OS is, free of charge—it has to be better, right?

there is too much vista :P

using xp 64bit here. wont upgrade to vista. will switch directly to windows 7 or whatever os its called that's coming in 2009.

I can't really upgrade to Vista for two reasons.

1. My PC sucks, can't sustain Vista well.

2. World of Warcraft won't run on Vista, this is the core reason -_- And now that expansion is around the corner, more reason keep torture my poor Xp >.>

Plus I don't really have fond memories of Mac. It was really long time ago, like 10 years ago or so. I was a computer science major(gave it up long time ago though) and so I would spend hours in computer lab coding and what not. We used Mac to do so every so often, Mac will crash with that stupid bomb icon and it would drive me crazy. Ever since then, I don't like Mac all that much. I don't even use Ipod >.>

Vista x64 user since the launch. The best OS MS released until now in my opinion!
I don't know why there are so many XP user out there (Except those who have an old PC)

I for one prefer Vista over XP. I tend to see XP as a virus breeding OS but Vista's not that better off either. ^^;;

LOL I'm still using Windows XP... I need to get myself an upgrade...

On my mac side I try to keep as up to date as I can, pre-ordered Tiger when it was coming out and got Leopard the first weekend it was out. I have XP as well, but I really don't like using it and only use it for gaming, I don't bother installing any updates.

XP user, I would love to up-grade to Vista but to scared too. So much to get used to and to scared something bad happen. Maybe when I get 8gb I'll do it then.

currently using Vista, and will be reformatting to XP in a few hours due to licensing issue (the CA doesn't provide Vista anymore and the key I got already overactivated).
It's a good os though, assuming you have >=2Gb of RAM.

Using Mac OSX Tiger… have not upgraded to Leopard out of pure laziness.
Maybe when I “aquire” CS4 ;)

The only reason which made me switch from WinXP to Vista was DX10... and in the end the game i wanted to play with DX said on it's release they won't support DX till december lol... i quit it after 6 days playing anyhow.
So, now i am stuck with 2 Vista machines and one XP, all work the same though - no real problems.
I think it depends a lot in the person running the OS as well, their behaviour in the internet and with taking care of the system...
MacOS doesn't have as high requirements on system maintenance as windows has, which makes it really comfy to use for non-tech people.
Someday however i will get me a macbook again, just cuz i like em. :)

Got my iMac with Tiger installed, but with the Leopard CD. Installed Leopard on my iMac and Macbook ^_^

my hubs actually help me downgraded to XP with a lot of trouble cos they kinda hard installed vista into my poor laptop. Vista was killing my time and laptop lol Now XP is still kinda buggy but worked a lot faster ^^;

emulating Windows as well...
I get weird faces when I boot up windows on my mac...

I'm currently sticking to XP. Until I have enough money to buy a new/upgrade my existing PC, I'll put Vista.

I'm not going to update to fedora 9, currently I'm using fedora 8.
Fedora 9 has KDE4.0 (full of bugs) and new X server didn't work with ATI gfx card drivers.
Don't know yet wether to wait for fedora 10 or change to ubuntu.

lol, someone still uses win98 to visit your site.

I have a Mac on Tiger, my mom has an XP, and my dad's office has Vista. I worked at his office over the summer, and I can say, Vista sucks like a horseshoe. Seriously. They tried to fix stuff that wasn't broken, and so therefore made it more broken than it was originally.

I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet but my roommate has. She didn't notice too much difference, but then again, she doesn't exactly poke around in it much. However, I've heard the Adobe CS3 products don't work so well on Leopard, so I'll probably wait until Snow Leopard comes out before even considering upgrading.

I am mostly on Mac OS X (10.5) these days, but I (unfortunately) have to use XP from time to time. I usually upgrade Mac OS fairly quickly.. It is usually worth it, though there are the occasional development environment issues.

Never have upgraded my PC, never will ^^

I don't think I really need to upgrade to Vista, nor do I think my computer could handle it. I would be a 100% Linux user if my sound card and DJ software worked 100% in it, but it's all still buggy. So close, yet so far...

I use Vista 64bit on Motoko-chan to use the full 4Gb of Ram she has, I've had no real problems with Vista except Ati video drivers issues when I first got it which were fixed with recent Catalyst drivers.
Besides that it's stable, but it's rather slow, I see no speed improvement using Vista on an E6750 with 4Gb of PC6400 Ram compared to XP on a socket 939 Sempron 2800+ with 1Gb of Ram.

On Akari-chan (my "Aria" PC) I use Mandriva Linux, quite happy with that and its 3D desktop but it has the drawback of several issues I've yet to really fix well. So I'm pondering if I'll run XP, Linux or Hackintosh on it.
I'd like to try Hackintosh on it to check OS X's stability and usability, but I'm not keen on giving up the 3D desktop of Compiz, it's eye-candy but also has great functionality once you get used to it.

It's always a pickle though, I'm considering getting a Mac to have something guaranteed to work and be stable, but it's also more unflexible hardware wise.

My main machine uses XP 64bit, my laptop uses Vista Ultimate 32bit, my work laptop (wich needs a new screen -_-) has XP 32bit...
I also have a Linux machine to play around and to organize my files, used to run TigerOS on a Virtual Machine but removed it for the sake of pushing myself closer to buy an actual MAC ^^

If my brother hadn't broken my laptop, I'd still have XP, lovely, reliable XP.... bloody graphic intensive Vista...... I wouldn't upgrade unless it was my last option...

there are actually people still using win98

i got vista when i bought a new machine, i am a sucker for pretty things hurhur

I purchased a laptop for uni and to replace my aging desktop. Unfortunately, Lenovo didn't include the option of installing XP instead of Vista... Given this laptop is quite good, I can handle Vista but using Vista on the cheap campus computers is just stupid... it takes a couple of minutes to load when I need to only check my email. I'd never upgrade operating systems unless it was absolutely necessary to do so. Thats why I used win2k even after Vista came out. It was less demanding and faster. The other reason I didn't update was because I couldn't afford a new computer until recently...

I'm using Vista (32 bit) for over a year now and I prefer it over XP. It's a nice and stable OS ...as long as you don't mess around too much with it or install shitty drivers that is.

My first encounter with Windows XP was when I bought a new computer around Christmas 2001. I had my fair share of stability issues and I hated the new Luna theme. What was even worse were the security issues. It was basically like:

-make a fresh install
-connect it to the net (without a router)
-wait a few minutes
-get a brand-new computer worm

Since then most of these issues have been addressed by service packs (SP 1 and SP 2).

In 2003 I bought a copy of Suse Linux (back then it wasn't freeware) and gave it a try. After a few days of tinkering around with it I decided to use it as my main OS. In the following years I've been trying out various distros (my favourites were Suse, Arch Linux and PCLinuxOS) and hardly ever missed Windows.

In march 2007 my computer was replaced by a new laptop with Vista pre-installed. I was pleasantly surprised. It was quite stable and the default settings were quite reasonable (from a security point of view).

Of course, I would still like to install Linux on it but the laptop's HDD is quite small and I don't want to waste precious disk space by installing a second OS. I can't get rid of Windows yet because I still have to use a few Windows-only programs to get my studies done. (No, WINE doesn't help.)

All in all from all the Windows versions I've tried so far (3.1, 95, 98, NT, XP, Vista) Vista is the one I like the most.

Rant over! *lol*

Imma hybrid vista and xp user!

Im a long time Debian Linux user (servers) who switched to Ubuntu on the desktop around 2 years ago with Edgy. Will not be going back to Windows either.

Wow, 7 people using WinME!!! Impressive!!!
So, my current laptop came preloaded with Windows Vista.

I tried to keep it for a month.
A month... in hell.

It's a long story, but suffice to say it's the worst experience I even had with an OS... and I've gone through almost all OSs (starting on Basic).
Vista Ultimate, on my Dell XPS 1330. After unboxing it, had my first BSOD after like 5 minutes of testing.

XP PRO SP2 on the other hand, which I'm using right now, NEVER had problems. No BSODs, with the computer running months non-stop, with tons of processes opened at the same time.

I know user experiences vary from computer to computer. I know people who had great experiences with Vista, I know people who had more problems with XP than ME.

But based on my personal experience, I'll never switch to Vista. Don't care for the extra Aero looks and never had security issues with XP so I have no reason to want the extra security Vista claims to have.

The only thing I liked on Vista was the search features... which just isn't enough.

At work i use XP and at home I use Vista and Ubuntu. I was a beta tester for Vista and it was horrible and buggy at first. Even after the official release it was still a bit buggy but usuable and most programs werent compatible. Now most programs are compatible and its stable and more secure. Im using a laptop that has XP and i complain that i use XP. The laptop is old so i know it wont run Vista. Just last night the laptop crashed and XP wouldnt start up. Had to do a clean install.

Last time i used a Mac was aeons ago and i hated it with a passion. Right now I would try a mac for a second chance but since my funds are limited, i'm staying with "Winblows" and Linux.

win xp user here on my main PC. my other PC is running Ubuntu Linux.

My computer used to run off ME but I think XP is much more stable. I totally need a new computer though. XD My dream machine is a Mac with parallels running XP. NICE!

I have Mac OSX Leopard on my MacBook, which I only bought a few weeks ago so Leopard came with it. On my desktop I use Windows XP, I don't see much reason for me to upgrade to Vista due to that my desktop computer wouldn't be able to handle it and also that I played around with it on my old laptop and I didn't really like it. I may try to update my desktop but I doubt I will.

Ubuntu Hardy on my laptop... can't wait for Intrepid release....
Vista at work... once you get used to it, it isn't so bad... all Windows are like that.

i'm actually curious on the 245 users in the "unknown" OS category...lol...wonder what weird OS they are running

I'm still on XP since in order to upgrade to Vista I'd need to buy a completely new PC or laptop and XP is working just fine for me...

I use only Windows XP... don't really think Vista is really worth it.
Can't afford it either D:

I dont think people upgraded to vista I think it came with their new laptops LOL!

at work we use MAC but at home I use PC-XP
but I plan to buy a Macbook Pro this coming week
because sometimes fonts mess up going from MAC to PC when working at home

Linux!!!! that's me ^^ my Ubuntu Laptop or my SuSE Desktop ^^

My Macbook Pro dual boots Vista Ultimate and OSX Tiger. I'm happy with both - right now I use them 50/50. On the MBP - which CAN run Vista - I love it. It's smoother, and since I meticulously label files the fact that it recognizes 10 comes after 9 is awesome. And I haven't had to install any drivers.

However, I also have a desktop that used to run XP. Upgraded it to Vista since I had the opportunity to do it for free, and it lags like crazy. I haven't even installed anything besides Bittorent on it, since I just use it to download stuff now. The startup cycle takes 2, 3 minutes. Vista's awesome for computers that can run it comfortably, but for those that can't it's hell.

I've been using Leopard for quite a long time now. Best OS ever.

Been using Vista for a year now... not much problem. I see a lot of people complaining about the speed of Vista, but I'm running it on a 5 years old hardware (p4 2.4, 1gb ram) and I don't have any performance issue. The only issue I have is that my hardware is too damn old and the hardware manufacturer have stopped making Vista driver for it! D:<

I use Vista for a very legitimate reason. Vista has some very awesome Tablet PC functions which I need.

Handwriting recognition(even for Japanese characters like kanji!) is amazing, I use Office One Note to take notes during my lectures. Then there is the Speech Macros, dictating letters is near perfection. http://lifehacker.com/391884/control-your-pc-with-your-voice

It's really to grown on me, but ultimately, the downfall is the amount of resources it consumes.

slackware linux user here..both at main desktop and laptop... mixed path between slackware stable and slackware current ...updared almost every week for slackware current :D

I can't be bothered to upgrade to Vista from XP because... well, Vista is pretty pointless to me >_>

Used Vista on the first day it came out, and from my experience it was pants. It was buggy, imcompatible with my older programs, slow to run and damn annoying with that stupid UAC thing. Since then I vowed never to use Vista and stick with XP, virtually all my computers runs Windows XP Professional. I received my new laptop today which came with Vista and first thing I done with it was wipe it out and plonk XP on!

Though I do miss using Windows 98 though when I used to play my old skool DOS games and it was a treat! Bit brave using it in today's climate though. o_o

I'm sticking with Win2K for the time being. It does everything I need it to do, and has a light footprint for my hardware. Nowadays, I do most of my gaming on my DS or my Wii, so it's not a big deal to have a slower computer. It does all my CG art just fine.

I think that when I upgrade, I'll switch to Linux. I've had good luck with Linux so far, so I figure a couple more years will make Linux even better.

I had my laptop upgraded to Vista Home Premium and had no problems at all.
When I built my new desktop pc I installed Vista Home Premium 64 bit on it and after a month or two of running, I've had nothing bad happen. I don't see the problem with it.

Bought the pc with Vista in it and I think there's not much problem about it (except for a few especially that user account control -__-''). I still wanted to try XP again though.

I'm upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 shortly for my laptop, and I upgrade my OS every 6 months at the moment. When I run Arch I "upgrade" just about once a month.

I actually have no problems with Vista. Although I'd like a Mac.

uses vista, it's sucks even more when i know more about it. the only good thing about vista is it's GUI.

it takes >2 hours to format an 117 GB HDD while XP only takes about 45 minutes

My Vista x32 machine doesn't give me trouble, my XP machine doesn't need upgrading, and my Win2k is a mule for storage. I've had many chances to use Macs at my school computing facilities since they never have a queue (unlike the PC's), but it's been a hassle learning all the keyboard shortcuts and acquainting myself to using finder rather than explorer... and that annoying mouse; this after five years of using Macs between classes.

did i mention i was using Windows ME for 7 years before upgrading to Vista? ('~')

Using XP here. Everything's working fine so I don't see a need to upgrade yet.

I am using Win XP and it is fine the way it is now. Have tried Vista before. Its kinda annoying with all those pop-up stuff.

Win XP is still a decent OS eventhough there are a few bugs or security issues here and there.

I used Vista as it was installed in my new laptop.

But I still prefer XP after using Vista for a while.

Even if I'm getting a new rig, I'm getting Xp SP3 and not Vista. Hehe.

I guess I'll be the odd ball. I recently upgraded to Vista and I am enjoying the change of scenery. No major issues after more than a month's use, contrary to people's complaints it has been very stable. I should mention that I got my copy of Vista Ultimate from work for free. I will say that Vista doesn't really offer anything ground breaking and I probably wouldn't bother if I actually had to pay for it. >_< Otherwise I like it.

used: win98SE (good)
used: win3.11 (lol)
used: winME (dumped it, piece of crap)
used: winNT (er... dunno wat to say)
used: win2000 (great, stable)
used: winXP (it was hell when it was frst launched, but now 2008, probably the best OS)
used: vista (yes the UI was slick, but degraded my system performance, programs jus wont work, stupid UAC although i disabled it. reformatted it)

Wow... and I thought everyone was using WinVista, I was wrong.

I'm having second thoughts with upgrading my OS to a Vista (currently using XP with Vista skin). The main reason is that my PC is a piece of crap. Other reasons are issues with games, the many problems of Vista and the price of buying the OS. I'll just stick to XP since it's working fine. I might not move to MAC anytime soon since I'm really used to Windows x_x

Eh... Still using win2000 here. ^^; I've got an old pc and I'm too lazy to upgrade everything for the moment. I do want and need a new system, but don't know what I should buy. Any suggestions?

XP user even with decent pc.
imo vista is a failure . it eat ram for breakfast, incompatible with so many things and not stable .

Vista is awesome, I'm using it right now. It does a lot more than XP and has a hell of a lot more features, I can even control my PC with a microphone! The reason why theres still a lot of XP users is obviously because it's been out longer and was a huge step from Windows 2000/ME and also because those user don't want to switch yet. Theres a rumor going around saying that Vista has many problems and that it's slow and stuff, go to http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ and see how wrong these people are. If you really are having a few problems with Vista then I guess you just need to figure out how to solve it, upgrade your hardware, software, or adjust some settings.

Under normal circumstances I would not be bothered to upgrade to Vista. I have Vista, so why did I upg- hold it there. I needed a new computer for school and the deal came with Vista, so I am stuck with it. It's not that bad- just a few nifty features is all. XP is alot more in my ballpark- I have it on the PC at home.

Since I have my macbook pro since May this year, I do everything on my mac, including development (and it's Leopard). At work I still do everything in Windows XP. No Vista there, and no need to anyway. And I also just emulate Windows XP on Mac using Parallels, works just fine. If I need something from before May, I still have my old laptop (of which the screen doesn't work anymore, but is attached to an external monitor).
And if I do want to play a Windows game, I use my laptop from work ^^;

Vista is a complete joke, so I will be sticking with XP for the foreseeable future. I also have Ubuntu on dual-boot, but haven't been using it much as of late.

Last year (August/September time) I was helping out a friend who had just brought a brand new Dell laptop with Vista pre-installed and the first thing that happened when we booted it was that it gave an error message about something crashing.. The UI was also extremely laggy - given the specs of the machine.

I plan on getting a Macbook in November or December when they release the new model - supposedly has a Centrino 2 CPU and a glass trackpad, and will have XP on dual-boot.

I've got two HDDs, one running on XP and the second one on Linux.
I discovered Linux not so long ago and was really impressed and excited in the first place. I tried to cope with it for 2 months, then got laaaazy and got back to XP.

as long developer continue to support the OS, i didnt see upgrading OS necessary... indeed new OS have some improvement, but those improvement sometimes can be worst, like Vista (everyone should know Vista fail, even the developer said that)
What we need is the one works! and for windows, XP still king of the hills, people that want eye candy vista interface can easily costumize their xp interface

as for mac i want to try to use it in the future, but not for now, since either my works in CG is done better within windows environment and also pc games

for winx64bit... either compability and performance still not worthed to upgrade from 32bit, although i can get maximum ram size (32bit limited to 3gb)

I use Mac OS X Tiger and I see there is more Mac then Linux users on here :)

I was never going to upgrade to vista, but I was in great need to a laptop for a big showcase of interactive media in Washington DC. I purchased an HP laptop with vista. Right away I disliked the OS. The when my Gateway desktop crashed I bought another HP desktop with Vista. Both laptop and desktop had to be reformatted and reinitialized multiple times because of strange issue that tech support could not solve. Ahhhh I hated it. With help from a developer I was able to switch my laptop Vista to XP and now very happy about this. I hate vista very much and can not stand it!

I upgraded to Vista when it come out (I get a free Vista Business from my university) and thought I liked it and it had a lot of cool features, Vista was back then in many ways a lot worse than XP. But now, with a lot of updates and service pack 1 it is great, I don't see myself turning back to XP. Actually, I am waiting for the next windows:P

I dont know but i use to have XP it was alright but i upgraded to Vista Ultimate and i really like it so far i have no problems, everything works great and fast 20 secs to load to the desktop not bad dont you think?

Been using Vista x64 for a bunch of months now, no serious issues, and it's tons better than XP. Or maybe that's just because I used a tweaker program and added 1.5gb for a total of 3gb of ram, upgraded my 3800 to a 4600x2, and go to a 8800gts 512mb from a 7900gs 256mb. <__<

Windows XP is my "weapon of choice". I have a Vista Business 32 installed on a additional HDD, but it's for test purpose only. It runs pretty fast on my outdated PC but the driver issues drives me crazy, not to mention the amount of disk space that it consumes, when I see the size of a Windows folder I want to hurt somebody grrrr....

Am happy with Vista.

It's alright for me, so yay lucky me!

Although I want to one day have the courage to have a Linux OS in the family

Tried out Vista, do like the small features e.g. tick box, side bar etc... but Vista asks too many confirmations for permissions. Also large foot print. Back to XP and Ubuntu.

Xp works best for me but, I quite like Linux as well, so I may get that on my laptop (once I get it at least..)

Yay. One of the 377. Upgrading on Gentoo is the easiest. You basically just run one command and everything is updated for you. :)

Wait, so where did these stats come from? Does the server log what OS people use? Also, I'm on XP x64. Does that show up as XP or 2003 (since it's named XP and looks like XP, but is based on Server 2003)?

For the record I'm on XP x64 on my main system and run a dual boot of XP32 and Ubuntu 8.04 x64 on my laptop.

I don't get why the XP x64 users are complaining about compatibility issues. I've been using XP64 for almost a year now and haven't found any of my hardware or software to be incompatible. The benefit of being able to actually address more than 3GB of memory and run native 64bit apps are the reasons why I wouldn't go back to using a 32bit OS on my main system. It's a godsend for multitasking, doing video/photo editing, and gaming, and the familiar interface of XP is much easier to work with than Vista's.

I probably won't upgrade to Vista until it's practically forced down my throat. I absolutely hate the interface and all the changes they made to where things are, and the fact that it's just downright slower and more resource heavy. Gaming performance is also lower than XP's (even slower in DX10), and gaming is one of my biggest hobbies, so I just don't see any benefit at all to going with Vista. The latest things aren't always the best. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I use XP. Vista has so many problems with older program. That was what my dad told me. Plus if I use Vista on here my PC will slow down allot.

yeah....windows always win...umm..yah sometimes...
anyway...i use this windows OS since 1998....

why fix when not broken? :D

i am running leopard. kinda sucks that im going to have to buy snow leopard, aww...

i upgraded my XP into a vista. why? becuase vista is pretty. pretty much, that's it.

so far, i've never had a problem with vista, it's just a little annoying.

i have a macbook pro 2.4 Ghz intel, 2 GB ram.

My mew desktop uses Vista as it operating system.

That line looks like nothing compared to the line at Jafax.

Hmm...Vista is #2...interesting.

Oh well, as wonderful as Mac is, its not really that great for gaming, so I will stick with WinXP over Vista for now, mainly for performance reasons. I am running dual core at the moment, maybe when I upgrade to Quad, I will give Vista a shot.

YES WINDOWS XP!!!!!!Vista may look better..but it has a shitload of glitches left to fix ....I HAD vista but i got pissed at it cuz it kept freezing soo..downgraded and went back to XP haha

LOL @ 7 Windows ME users!!