What OS are you running and why?

[Gideon]

Vista Ultimate 64-bit at home.
Vista Business on my laptop.
Windows XP at work.

Need Windows for ActiveSync, for the purposes of Outlook and also Blackberry Desktop manager.

Also occasional gaming on my home computer.

[BailOut]

Originally Posted by Gideon

Vista Ultimate 64-bit at home.
Vista Business on my laptop.
Windows XP at work.

Need Windows for ActiveSync, for the purposes of Outlook and also Blackberry Desktop manager.

Also occasional gaming on my home computer.

Just an FYI: You don't need Outlook or ActiveSync to use your Blackberry. The Blackberry syncs in Linux to Evolution (a full-featured email client which is also compatible with Exchange, should you need that).

Also, while you can't play every game title in Linux many games run natively, more than that work via WINE and even more than that will play via Cedega (Cedega is a paid service... $45/year or $5 month, which they use to pay for the rights to bypass copy protection on game discs, etc.). For example I am currently playing the latest Guild Wars expansion while my wife has recently returned to WoW for the Lich King expansion. I am also playing through HL2: EP2 when time permits.

[Gideon]

Originally Posted by BailOut

Just an FYI: You don't need Outlook or ActiveSync to use your Blackberry. The Blackberry syncs in Linux to Evolution (a full-featured email client which is also compatible with Exchange, should you need that).

Also, while you can't play every game title in Linux many games run natively, more than that work via WINE and even more than that will play via Cedega (Cedega is a paid service... $45/year or $5 month, which they use to pay for the rights to bypass copy protection on game discs, etc.). For example I am currently playing the latest Guild Wars expansion while my wife has recently returned to WoW for the Lich King expansion. I am also playing through HL2: EP2 when time permits.

My address book, calendar, email etc is with Outlook, I need ActiveSync for my Windows Mobile device I use for work, not for my Blackberry (which I also use for work, but I use the Desktop manager for little things, everything else is through my Enterprise Server at work) Didn't know there was a program like that for Linux though.

I'm aware of the options for gaming though. No native game support in Linux = no Linux for me. I'm not dicking around with WINE or paying for another program that will let me run a game that I can already play on my Windows computer for free.

[Malaya1221]

plan 9, solaris, classic mac and mac os X!

oh and windows xp!