[smolloy]

At work: Single booting Fedora 7 (a bit behind the times, but I need stability, not excitement, at work!)
At home:
Main desktop is single booting linux -- sidux at the moment, but it's been changing a lot over the last month or so.
Laptop dual booting Vista and Ubuntu 8.04. I almost never boot into Vista any more since it's been getting slower and slower lately. Complaining that it doesn't have enough RAM to use Skype video despite the fact that it has 2 GB, and skype is the only running application! It's got bad enough that my wife has stopped moaning about Ubuntu, and is actually happier with Linux than with Vista!

At the moment almost 90% of respondents to this poll single boot linux, which is waaaaaay more than I would have guessed! Well done people! Keep it up!

[daark.child]

I was Windows free for about 4 years until I started a university course last year. For some of the modules, I have to use software that will run on windows only, so I got a laptop with Vista installed (it was terrible at that time, but the SP seems to have improved performance) which I dual boot with openSUSE. For my desktops and an older laptop we use Linux or FreeBSD. At work, there isn't much choice, because the organisation I work for standardised on XP and chances of them using Linux are quite remote (the IT service seems to be a Microsoft shop).

[Jonathan183]

Dual boot Windows with several versions of Linux at home, only have Windows 2k at work (despite my suggestions to use Linux). Still need Windows for support of my scanner but thats about the only reason I use Windows .

[rokytnji]

Well, I guess I'll be the only one with the heuvos to admit I run dual boot Ubuntu/XP on the Panasonic cf-48(Still haven't figured out how to get the D link Wireless PCMCIA Card functioning yet in Ubuntu), The Ibm M 41 is Mepis 7.0/Xp dualboot cuz my Lexmark Z 645 cheapo printer won't run in Mepis. The Amrel Rocky ll RT 686 Laptop 500 MHZ,128 MB RAM, 20 gig hardrive runs fine wired up to modem with Mepis Antix but if I want to run wireless I have what is called a hot swappable hardrive bay and guess what that hardrive has on it. Now all that being said I aint no computer tech,geek,etc..... I am just a Redneck 6'6" 275lb. Biker that has rode with (not joined) the Hells Angels, The Bandidos,The Mongols, etc..........

I hear some newbies whine about how hard things are in Linux. "P" "M" "O". Hell I didn't know how to operate a computer let alone Windows. My 1st computer was this Panasonic with Winsows already installed and I was doing good getting Outlook express configured and if Dialup hadn't come up with a disk and a phone number I probably would never have got on the internet. "W" "T" "F" is command terminal I say to myself cruzin the internet cuz I like the word Command. See, Non of my motorcycles are stock so WTF should my computers be as any true biker will tell you "Stock aint good enough".

Now I am a G.E.D. graduate from the Job Corp. That tells ya I'm a high school drop out. I can't type good because of my meaty big fingers And I have to learn what I'm doing on anything computer related and like a baby everything is for the 1st time.

Linux aint for those that be afeared. I aint scared of much but a couple of things I won't go into but failing aint one of em. When I hear its to hard,why do I got to spend so much time configuring blah,blah,blah.

Now I know how to burn an iso,md5sum check, and yeah, give advice to noobies new to linux.

Not bad for a High Scool Drop out,Former Jarhead,Scooter Trash Biker. HE HE HAW HAW

So for anybody that thinks I wear pink panties for dualboot systems can "K" "M" "A" and come to west Texas and put me in my place. Nuff Said Rokytnji

[bigtomrodney]

Loving that rokytnji. That's a good enough example of nothing is difficult, just different. I always say you can do anything you put your mind to and I say it without any hint of cliché or emptiness. Race drivers aren't born with wheels in their hands, astronauts aren't born in space and Linux geeks didn't always have Linux.

[jayd512]

I'm reporting Linux only, because after this weekend that will indeed be the case. I'm planning on tossing XP out the... er... Window!

100% Linux, here I come!

[bigvoo]

I have a old dell laptop that i run only xubuntu, had now choice as viruses rat-packed it (with xp ) and just froze it up, I have a dell 4700 desktop ( that i just 2 hours ago bought 2gs of ram for ) that will be ubuntu only by tomorrow night. it's xp now, and is under constant attack lol. I found the last *thing hiding in zone alarm...is that ironic or some other word ? I'm a little intimidated about going all linux, because i have almost no computer tech background, but i read these forums every day... pray for the 4700

[Dapper Dan]

It all depends on which box I'm on! Some have several Os's and others only one. I have to use XP for a few certain apps that refuse to work under Wine, otherwise I use Linux 95% of the time at work. At home, it's Linux 100% of the time on my PC and Asus EEE PC. There's nothing more satisfying than simultaneously destroying three Sentry guns built by Windows opponents while playing a Demo guy under Wine in Team Fortress with CRUX 2.4.

[usamamuneeb]

Linux takes away my creativity. I use Windows for designing and stuff. I think Adobe and other companies are not in mood of porting their software to Linux. So I can't do without XP. When I single booted Fedora, my PC was handicapped in every way because I cou;dn't install any packages. I just used net, for chatting, Music and rubbish.

[Chris H]

I bought this laptop a few years aago with no os and installed linux straight off. Had a funny turn a while back and installed xp. Then a few days ago I was resizing a partition and toasted the partition table meaning I had to do a complete new install. So now just Xubuntu.

As it should be.