What OS (operating system) are you using

Microsoft Windows

23 (57.5%)

GNU/Linux

8 (20%)

MAC/OS

7 (17.5%)

BSD

0 (0%)

C64 Basic

0 (0%)

Atari

0 (0%)

Contiki

0 (0%)

Solaris

1 (2.5%)

other

1 (2.5%)

Total Members Voted: 28

[Evil Muppet]

I use Windows XP on my laptop and OpenSUSE 11.0 on my desk top. 

[LordMarius]

I just started using Xubuntu, and I'm loving every second of it. Except when Firefox crashes, which is way too often.

[anarchir]

Yeah, why does FF keep crashing recently? I'm not the only one this is happening to.

[Alex Libman]

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• ((1) Many (Linux package repositories) have a ((Firefox) versions) that were compiled by drunken ((Lisp) programmers (((BURP)))).  (I played around with that situation during my (Gentoo / LFS) days and got (some) improvement.))

• ((2) Linux still sucks on the desktop (yup, I'm a (Microsoft) guy).  (Heck, even (Wine) beats (Linux Firefox)!))

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[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

I just started using Xubuntu, and I'm loving every second of it. Except when Firefox crashes, which is way too often.

Firefox is highly over rated.  There are other, better browsers out there for sure.

[Kevin Freeheart]

There are other, better browsers out there for sure.

If you're playing fast and loose with the definition of "better", sure.

For me, no other browser has all of the features Firefox + Plugins can bring to the table. When I heard the rumor that IE 8.1 could use plugins, I got all excited. If Chromium could, or Konqueror could, or Opera could... I'd use that in a heartbeat since Firefox sucks in everything EXCEPT usefulness of plugins and that by far outweighs the drawbacks for me.

My system has switched a little bit. I'm now running a Vista 64 host with Virtualbox 2.2 running Ubuntu as a guest. Its' a neat setup, since I've got the hardware/graphics (Xorg sucks) stability of Windows drivers and apps, but the useful intuitive apps I like from Linux as well as the ability to securely browse without infecting my host OS.

[Alex Libman]

I haven't used VirtualBox in a while, but the last time I did it wasn't as good at emulating from a physical partition as VMware, which isn't that great either unfortunately.  That's a shame because it's much better to emulate from partition: in theory it should be more stable, the disk I/O should be faster, and if you ever need more speed you can just reboot (changing hardware profiles, etc) and what was guest now is the host, and vice-versa.

Inter-OS virtualization tech still has a ways to go, and CoLinux has been a huge disappointment so far.  Won't it be nice if you could not just map a drive to the other OS but also run its executables better than wine / faster than cygwin.  I don't mean see the apps on the desktop (ex Xming), I actually mean share the command space, like you could add Z:\usr\bin to your Windows path and run wget from PowerShell or gcc from Visual Studio!

[LordMarius]

• (1) Many Linux package repositories have a version of Firefox that was compiles by drunken Lisp programmers.  I played around with that situation during my Gentoo / LFS days and got some improvement.

• (2) Linux still sucks on the desktop (yup, I'm a Microsoft guy).  Heck, even Wine beats Linux Firefox!

Thanks dude, I now run the Windows version of FF through Wine and it works much better than the Linux version.

[Alex Libman]

Microsoft should eventually accept the fact that many power-users like Linux and stop trying to be the only OS on your computer.  It already took steps in that direction with SFU / Interix (which in theory gives the FOSS community everything they need to port everything over to a more stable foundation than Cygwin), but it should approach the issue for both sides.  When it does that, it can make running Windows apps under Linux a snap.  Why does it care what kernel you boot with - just as long as you pay for your licenses.  Developers will then focus on targeting Windows even more, and it will likely gain market share from Linux and Apple users who want to play Windows games but are reluctant to switch OS'es outright.  Heck, if Microsoft released a Linux distro, that distro would be the best on the market!

[blackie]

Microsoft should eventually accept the fact that many power-users like Linux and stop trying to be the only OS on your computer. 

Hyper-V supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as a guest OS, but only with one vCPU. The list of Linux distros supported will grow as Hyper-V matures. Microsoft is to getting into the hypervisor market.