Well, it's not fair to judge Linux like that. Linux is just the basic operating system. It's not the complete experience like Windows or Mac is. There are literally dozens of different graphical environments available -- GNOME and KDE are of course the big names (if you tried one and didn't like it, try the other) but there are a lot of others (I personally use Fluxbox, and Enlightenment was really nice when I was playing with it). Each distribution feels a little different, unlike with a Mac where every Mac has the same basic feel to it.

I honestly tried several. Ubuntu was the easiest. But I was really getting tired of running wine to intall a game and was just kind of annoying. And running a game through wine ended up making the game run slow.

And...I dunno. It just wasn't for me. Nothing against the OS in general, I think it's fantastic, but for me it's kind of like people that have tried to make me switch over from photoshop to GIMP. No thanks. It doesn't work right for me.

Every CS major I've known has been at home with linux. It's got some really cool tools and I love how it has a list thing that links me directly to downloads of popular programs that I'd use. makes it easy. There are things that I loved about it.

But I still hate windows for the most part. And I've become very well at home with mac. I guess I'm the stereotyped web designer using a mac XD

I never said Linux was for everyone, either. The problem isn't so much with the OS itself, though, as it is the fact that a lot of the major equivalents just can't measure up to the first-party solutions. GIMP is crap compared to Photoshop. (Inkscape is REALLY good, though, can almost measure up to Illustrator.)

I do. Turns out my macbook games pretty well :D

I just wish non-Windows operating systems could take advantage of DirectX graphics card features. OpenGL is BEAUTIFUL for precision 3D rendering but not ideal for games.

Aww I really like gimp xD I can't afford photoshop anyway, and I don't want to download it either. It runs like shit on my computer, and I have a GOOD computer. Gimp can do almost anything photoshop does, and at least everything I need it to do it can. So I'm happy with it.

I found WINE kinda annoying at first, but I got used to it really.

GIMP's great for doing the things GIMP is good at, especially if you're running it on Linux. (Performance is iffy on Windows and it's INCREDIBLY annoying to use on Mac.) It's mostly a fail if you're coming at it from Photoshop because the usage patterns don't really line up and a lot of the features are missing.

I'm happy with it as long as it can do what I want it too. I had trouble getting used to Krita, so I rarely use it.

I'm currently running Windows Vista, but I'll be upgrading to Windows 7 soon. Vista annoys me greatly...

Windows Vista, I should update to Windows 7, but I just don't like the taskbar.

You can set it back to the classic style, I'm pretty sure.

Linux Mint 9: Isadora, running on the Gnome desktop environment.
If you understand a word of that sentence then you are awesome in my book. xD

I used to use Windows, all the way back when Windows 95 was new when I was a little kid up until Vista. Then I discovered Linux. I Never went back, and now I'm looking forward to Mint 10 coming out next month.

Not only do I understand every word, I politely disagree with your choices. ;) (I guess Mint's not bad but GNOME just really cramps my style.)

Mint's alright. I started with Ubuntu and I've tried Fedora but didn't really like it that much in comparison. I've been curious about other distros though, I just feel at home with the Debian family. What are you using? :3

Me?

Gentoo. *grin*

Also Darwin (that is, Mac OS X).

Windows Vista on a hp Compaq

Ah, Gentoo. I didn't bother with that one when I first switched to Linux because the idea of compiling everything myself didn't sound too appealing. I liked the automation that Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint give with installing software.

Also, doesn't Gentoo use KDE as default? I'd give it a go if it wasn't for that. No offence meant, but just as you dislike Gnome, I also have a dislike for KDE. xD

Gentoo doesn't have defaults. :P The base system has enough software installed to compile packages and then you're on your own to choose what you want to add on top of that. This is one of the reasons I like it.

Also, just because you compile everything doesn't mean you're compiling everything BY HAND -- Gentoo has a package manager just like every other Linux distribution, except that instead of downloading precompiled binaries it downloads source code and builds it directly on your computer. This lets you change the compile settings (the "USE" flags) so that you don't have to drag in heavy optional dependencies if you don't want to. It's completely automated after you finish the initial setup.

And my Gentoo system actually uses Fluxbox. :P I don't use either GNOME or KDE as a desktop environment, and I can install either GNOME or KDE applications if there's not an environment-neutral alternative available.

Windows 7 I believe ?
I'm not that tech savy to be honest. I used to be though.

So it lets you compile the source code through a package manager? That's really cool.

The main reason I'm attached to GNOME is because of the environment-based applications on it. I suppose I could like without nautilus and the like, but I have yet to find a single application, on any environment that can hold a torch to QuodLibet.

I'd be willing to give Gentoo a try though. Probably after Mint 10 comes out, which should be sometime this month, I'll also make a LiveCD of Gentoo.

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I'd try 7 if this laptop could handle it. xD Maybe soon!

Windows Vista

Unfortunately that's rather unlikely -- good luck finding XP drivers for a laptop that shipped with Win7 on it.

Fortunately Win7 actually doesn't suck TOO bad; you can turn off most of the new flashy stuff and get a very XP-ish experience out of it with the benefit of the modern drivers and an updated 64-bit core.

I use Windows Vista

Um... drivers shouldn't cost any money at all. Virtually all vendors offer driver downloads for free. I think you might have confused that with something else.

Anyway, desktops are a little bit more likely to be compatible with Windows XP, but it's still a lot of trouble -- if you value user-friendliness, you shouldn't be downgrading like that; the downgrade process itself is the epitome of unfriendliness.