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worker201:
And exactly how does that qualify you to speak up against Microsoft?

piratePenguin:
Many here use Windows, and are pretty transparent about it.

I recall asking this question to Aloone Jonez around when I joined, and he had a quite reasonable response.

I haven't used anything other than ubuntu on this computer in years an years, but I have had windows 2000 installed in a virtual box for the (sole) purpose of playing poker, which could not be done through wine.

It's a MS world - some people 'need' to stand it, but when I don't 'need' to, I happily work away on my preferred operating system - which is ubuntu. Many peoples reason for disliking MS has no relation to their software quality, btw. I dislike Apple (and I don't so much care about MS since years ago), but I think they make great devices (as physical devices) that consumers want, but they're assholes trying to lock up their dumb users, and their markets. Fortunately I hope I will never 'need' to buy an Apple product, but the scenario is different for people wrt MS - many people who hate it, still pay tax - nothing new here.

davidnix71:
I have XP Pro and 7 Pro running as VM's, but neither is "Genuine" if you get my drift. Both are there if I can't get something done in a legit Snow Leo install on a Macintel.

Refalm:
I'm not sure what to answer here, because I installed Windows 7 on family computers. But my own laptop runs Ubuntu.

The number of questions asked at me is lower on Windows 7 I think. I have Kaspersky Internet Security installed, which does an excellent job at prevention someone with limited computer knowledge from getting their PC filled with malware.

Games is the most major problem. Running games in Wine requires knowledge of how winetricks works, and how to set command-line options. I don't see my dad doing something like that when he wants to play GRID. Also the framerate will be lowered by 20% on avarage when playing with the same graphics settings as running in Windows.

worker201:
I sorta have 3 computers now.  My Thinkpad runs Fedora 12.  My MacBookPro runs Snow Leopard.  And my Dell Inspiron 6000 runs Windows XP.  The Dell is too out-dated to run 7 or Vista - and the program I want to run on it isn't Vista/7 compatible anyway.  I also have XP as a virtual machine on the Mac, but it runs better on the Dell.

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