What kind of Linux user are you?

[Netisan]

at my office I must use w. its the company policy-central administration, support, rightsgiving, etc. at home I've installed ubb after/with w2k. some time I'm having ubb as a second OS at work, as well. I have lots of problems integrating ubb into totally ms environment. perhaps msw is user-friendly looking, but not user-friendly using.

[carlosqueso]

I voted other, because I'm really not any of them. Right now, my primary computer's broken (as in hardware broken), so I'm using my purist old backup computer. However, I keep windows around and have no real beefs using it (well, except for no apt and no virtual desktops), but Ubuntu is my primary OS.

[Wide]

All my equipment is open source except for one MS box thats used for work, that only runs Catia for design work. Otherwize Debian, RHEL & Ubuntu in the Home, Shop & Garage.

[Klaidas]

Casual and stuck
I need ******* for my work, favorite apps, but I dual boot cuz I really like learning linux

[Brunellus]

halfway between purist and stuck:

I dual-boot, but I have only ever booted into windows to play a few games. I also use windows at work (not my choice).

In my defense, I use Free Software wherever possible, even on Windows. This is my work PC, and I'm posting from Firefox. and I run GAIM on all platforms I use, preferring this to AIM.

[mstlyevil]

I picked Grrrr, there is nothing wrong with propietary because I am a capitalist and I believe in a regulated capitalist system. I also believe Open Source and FOSS are also great models that provide competition and make all software strive to be better for the consumer. I believe a person just should use what works for them and their needs. I like the Open Source model because it provides a level of innovation that propietary sometimes lacks.

I have a small XP partition that I use mainly for gaming and when I break my Ubuntu partition when playing with it. I also have a FAT32 partition to share files back and forth and I also store Data on it that I do not want to lose if I decide to do a reinstall of either Windows or Ubuntu. I don't consider myself stuck because I actually like XP but not as well as I like Ubuntu and Linux.

[Bragador]

It's amazing to see so much people buying windows only to use it sporadically for certain softwares.

Companies definitely need to make ther software available on linux.

I never hear Mac OS users buying a windows box to play games sporadicallly or to use native windows softwares.

Microsoft truly won the desktop war and I hate that.

[Brunellus]

FOSS!=non-commercial.

I don't buy the whole "proprietary software is good because capitalism is good" argument.

Fortunately, I believe that the whole argument will be made moot by the rapid progress of free software on all fronts.

[Brunellus]

It's amazing to see so much people buying windows only to use it sporadically for certain softwares.

Companies definitely need to make ther software available on linux.

I never hear Mac OS users buying a windows box to play games sporadicallly or to use native windows softwares.

Microsoft truly won the desktop war and I hate that.

it isn't that they're *buying* windows; it's that they already have it. It came with their hardware, in most cases, as it did in mine.

I consider it "legacy support" for windows applications.

[mstlyevil]

It's amazing to see so much people buying windows only to use it sporadically for certain softwares.

Companies definitely need to make ther software available on linux.

I never hear Mac OS users buying a windows box to play games sporadicallly or to use native windows softwares.

Microsoft truly won the desktop war and I hate that.

I bought Windows before I ever used Linux. I figure I paid for this copy already and I might as well use it. I doubt I will buy another copy of a MSFT operating system in the future unless there are just some kewl features I just can't live without.