Linux

[Thylacine]

Anyone use Linux. I use ubuntu with kde.

[Bryan B]

Have used KDE
But mostly use Mac OS 10.6 and Win 7

[CLScar]

I use mint with Icewm on my older laptop, Mint with Gnome on my newer laptop, Fedora on my desktop computer, and a customly built Ubuntu distro on my grandpa's computer. :D

[Suicune]

My Nintendo systems use Linux, but that's about it. :P

[darkwoon]

I'm using Debian/unstable on my own computer. I have a dual-boot with Windows for a few games that do not accept the Wine emulator. For "serious" apps, I usually use a Windows session launched from VirtualBox.

I'm using KDE, but I also like XFCE and IceWMs, which are quite lighter in resources use.

Also, am I the only one playing X-Pilot? :)

[JackOfClubs]

I've got Ubuntu 9.10 on my old laptop. 10.04 threw a fit and didn't want to work with my wireless card.

[darkwoon]

I've got Ubuntu 9.10 on my old laptop. 10.04 threw a fit and didn't want to work with my wireless card.

Out of curiosity, what is your wireless card chipset? (lspci -v)

If for some reason your network card is not natively recognized by Linux, you can still try using ndiswrapper - it is a wrapper module allowing you to load Windows network wireless drivers under Linux. It is often not as featurful as a native driver, but it is of great help if your wireless chipset is poorly/not supported.

[JackOfClubs]

Out of curiosity, what is your wireless card chipset? (lspci -v)

If for some reason your network card is not natively recognized by Linux, you can still try using ndiswrapper - it is a wrapper module allowing you to load Windows network wireless drivers under Linux. It is often not as featurful as a native driver, but it is of great help if your wireless chipset is poorly/not supported.
I haven't got a clue at the moment, I'm 4000 miles from it :P
I'll have to try that when I can.

[TheFame]

Oh! My home computer is UBUNTU (:

[The Ninja]

i usually use win7 but ive tryed unbuntu

O.S.'s ive used
Windows xp
Vista
Windows98
Windows7
Some Version of mac (not a big mac user)

[TheFame]

But i use my macbook all day every day.

I never knew other people used ubuntu

[Apparitions]

I only just stopped using Ubuntu 10.04 as I can't figure out how to make the menu appear when you start your computer that lets you choose an OS to boot (any help with that?) so until then I'm using my Windows 7 Ultimate partition. I want to figure out how to get it back though, I liked Ubuntu though, it was a very efficient and satisfying OS when you figure it out. I want to try Mint some time. Anyone know what it is like?

[darkwoon]

I only just stopped using Ubuntu 10.04 as I can't figure out how to make the menu appear when you start your computer that lets you choose an OS to boot (any help with that?) so until then I'm using my Windows 7 Ultimate partition. I want to figure out how to get it back though, I liked Ubuntu though, it was a very efficient and satisfying OS when you figure it out. I want to try Mint some time. Anyone know what it is like?

mmm...

The boot menu that is installed by Ubuntu and most other linux distros by default is called grub. Ubuntu installs it in the Master Boot Record of your hard disk when it is installed, but reinstalling/upgrading Windows later on will overwrite and remove it.

If you still have Ubuntu installed, but have lost the Grub boot menu, you can boot the Ubuntu installation disk in recovery mode, that will allow you to reinstall grub and get access to it (and Windows) again.

Mint is a good run-from-cd distro. It is an Ubuntu derivative that attempts to offer everything that one would need with the default setup. If you have space on your hard disk, Ubuntu is probably a better choice anyway, as it offers more flexibility.

[TheMatrix]

i like ubuntu...
my parents use openSUSE. i dun really like it.
ubuntu is like macintosh, just better.

EDIT: I've given up on ubuntu. it was waaaaaay too picky 'bout security.
not that fedora 13 isn't...