How many Linux zealots here make their living with windows?

[mellowd]

My work is 80% networking, 10% linux and 10% windows.

[LinuxMonk]

We're a Windows client shop, but I've got two stealth Linux boxes - one's a task manager, the other's an internal wiki. I write Perl programs for both corporate and remote site use, so at least I'm using good tools. My office laptop has Cygwin installed.

At home - Linux, period.

[cprofitt]

I cut my teeth on Vax/VMS systems, an Apple IIe and a TI.

From there I used Macs at college with the exception being when I played Bards Tale on the IBM-Compats.

After graduation I was 'gifted' a 386sx and asked to build a database...

I then started on a long, long journey with Microsoft (DOS then Windows) all the while I tried using alternative OSes (Warp, Linux) and until just recently always stayed with Windows.

I have been in IT now for roughly 12 years and supported Apple, Microsoft (win 95, 98, Me, XP, 2000, 2003, Vista), Netware and now a few Linux boxes.

I assume that my job will continue to be Windows focused for at least the next 3-4 years, but at home I have converted my daughter (7 now) to Ubuntu (she loves it) and will be converting my box to Debian. I currently am running Vista Ultimate on the machine (learning and tied to Visual Studio for a project right now). Once that project is done I will convert.

I am not sure if Linux is the future, but my lack of enjoyment from games and my enjoyment of 'blowing' up my Linux installs is leading me down this path.

[Laterix]

At home I use only Linux. I work as a system specialist in a multinational corporation. Of course it's all about microsoft. My development environment consist of .NET, Ms BizTalk, MS SQL Server etc.

There is really no alternatives in Linux. Or if someone knows working Biztalk-like open source software I'm interested to hear more.

[spamzilla]

Sadly at work I use both XP Pro or WinServer 2003. Soon we will have a suite of Macs, but no Linux boxes

[Erunno]

The company I'm currently working at is in the process of switching their complete client-side application portfolio to Java/Eclipse. The process is almost completed with applications either being already ported or in beta stage. I'll probably switch to Linux in the near future (I really miss a lot of KDE's features which make my daily life easier) and probably run a Windows XP installation in a virtual machine for the few cases where it's still needed.

The only downside is that Eclipse-based applications are rather memory intensive, especially if you are running a couple of them at all times.

[Zipster90]

When I was working for a school district in the summer, I worked on mostly WinXP machines, but I also worked on a Mitel voicemail system that ran on Linux. Unfortunately, we accessed it from Windows.

At home, my room has three Linux machines. My laptop with Ubuntu, my old main desktop running Ubuntu 7.10 and running as a server, and an old whitebox thing that's running trixbox.

[kellemes]

DB-developer (mostly Delphi), yeah.. very much Windows indeed.

[Portable_Jim]

I use Windows at school, Linux at home.

[Luggy]

I write software for Windows but we use wXWidgets and QT so I can write it in Linux and just tweak it with a few Windows images I have. And I use msys and mingw when I do use windows.