What kind of Linux user are you?

[nocturn]

I voted other because i have a small fat32 partition and winXP just in case i would need it but i never boot on windows except to use norton ghost to make a ghost of my linux partition every month. I still use norton ghost because i have it and i'm used to it (i mean that that partimage, mondo, or bash scripts would do the same job) and i know it works because i often restore my linux partition (i like to test many things )
But i run all my windows games under linux and they run faster (steam, wolfenstein, ...)

So i'm between stuck and purist i think.

Just a note, but you can use tar to make a partition image, it is automaticly compressed. But the choice is yours off course.

[SuperDiscoMachine V.5.7-3]

Open Source can, Free Software can't.

People mix the two as if they were the same, yet they are not.

Exactly my point.

[Lanrond]

Curious.
I try to use Linux as much as I can and I want to learn more.
I keep my dual-boot with Mac, but I'm looking forward to repartitioning.
Linux is now carrying the torch that was carried by Apple in the '80/'90.
M$ is evil.

[frodon]

Just a note, but you can use tar to make a partition image, it is automaticly compressed. But the choice is yours off course.

I know, it's my stupid side, but i like to have a bootable cd which is able to restore an image but indeed we're able to do the same thing with the ubuntu live cd.
Well i think i will have a look again to this guide : http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=81311 but i'not sure that it will take less time to boot on a live cd than on XP, i mean in case that you cannot boot on linux.

but yes i agree with you a tar works just well (especially as cron job), mondo looks pretty good too and it allow to create bootable ghost images.

[fuscia]

as my computer is just a hobby to me, i can afford to be a purist. if it were a matter of importance, i would do whatever it took to make my life easier, whatever that may be.

[eMuNiX]

95% of the time I am only using Linux but when I have to use CAD or CorelDraw I have to go back into windows. I play UT2004, Q3A and Enemy Territory natively under Linux so that’s my online fragging needs seen to.

[Robgould]

I like windows and linux. They both get the job done. I dual boot because its fun to play with new stuff. I keep windows as my primary desktop because I do a lot of database development with Access and Mysql. I have played with base and mysql and it works, but in the end it does not matter much. A common desired feauture is integrationg with outlook. A lot of buisinesses use outlook and exchange and changing is just not an option. So I have to have windows and office around just because it is what most companies that I know of use. I have tried to tlalk to some about changes, but people don't like change.

I think microsfot stuff is fine...XP is a vey nice OS. I also like Ubuntu and Fedora. I would prefer fedora if not for YUM. Once I tried Synaptic there was no going back to yumex. Fedora 5 comes out next month though and they have a package manager so I will probably try it.

I am running Dapper right now and love it. My only issue with Ubuntu is that it is hard to stay up to date. If bakcports does not have what you want, you just have to wait and you are "forced" to update. I'm not complaining. I love ubuntu.

Thats my two cents...sorry about the rambling.

[neoflight]

i dual boot. my office PC is ubuntu only.. iam trying to get my officemates to use ubuntu. they use suse, etc now.. i even have the install cd, live cd on display on my desk and i noticed some one grabbed the live cd for sometime....

isnt it a success?

[TeeAhr1]

I'm somewhere beween purist and stuck, I guess. XP is still on hda2, because I can't get Civ4 to run worth a crap under Wine. But in six months, I've gone from "XP for everything" to "XP for one game that I bought right before I switched to Linux and nothing else." We'll get there.

[RaptorRaider]

I have MP3 support installed which is legal here.

Really?
Could you elaborate that?
I live nearby (Amsterdam) and thought it wasn't very legal to do so.
Then again, we have legalised things which aren't legal anywhere on the planet...

More on topic though, I'm the "Stuck!"-type.
If I'd have more money, I'd probably buy two monitors and attempt to run Ubuntu on one screen and XP/Vista on the other.