Windows XP loses ground.........

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I like my comp to do what i want, how i want. Not how it thinks it should be done, in the only way it can. But hey its 'cool' and looks 'good' right?

Macs suck, selling my POS Iphone 4S as soon as possible too.

Then your only possible operating system is linux.

[Stalwart]

Ipad !

Bought one for my wife.  She wanted one.  Now it sits in a drawer.

Can't find a use for it. 
None of my family are into Facebook or Jeremy Kyle re-runs on Youtube.
I see people on the train to work reading ebooks on them.
To get your music collection on it you have to d'load itunes onto your PC.

How crap is that!

I couldn't agree with you more.  Want another?
Fanbois are always saying how intuitive apple products are. 
What's intuitive about installing a product called iTunes to manage a mobile phone?

[icepac]

If you are one to use lots of specialized hardware, you will have big trouble finding a driver outside of the windows realm.

For the people who simply use the computer for computing and browsing, the other operating systems are sufficient.

I have two sound cards and a predecessor of the "all-in-wonder" series cards that allows me to input and output any format video or audio signal except for firewire on a pentium 200 box I built in 1995.    It also has Ultra fast and wide scsi and a raid controller. (not to be confused with the weaker ultra scsi).

I had very few issues getting the drivers to work in windows 95 and I still use that box now because one of the soundcards has a hardware sampler with 28 megs of sample ram that will play notes from a midi controller with ZERO LATENCY........because it is hardware.    It also has spdif digital out which I record with the other sound card.

My slightly newer box runs win98SE and has 3x soundcards allowing 16 channels of hardware ADAT input and output going through a digital mixer as well as having the same hardware synth as the win95 box with zero latency.......because the KT7A raid still had a 16 bit ISA slot.    

It can also input and output any type of audio or video signal through the all-in-wonder 8500dv card including firewire and I had zero issues finding drivers to work with it.

I was able to get this functionality in 1995 for the older box and 2000 for the newer one and it would not have been possible to do that with any operating system other than windows.

My older boxes work so well, that my "new box" is used only for browsing and gaming.

Even today, there are issues trying to get even a single expansion card working in operating systems other than windows while I can still pack a ton of cards into a windows based system.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

If you are one to use lots of specialized hardware, you will have big trouble finding a driver outside of the windows realm.

For the people who simply use the computer for computing and browsing, the other operating systems are sufficient.

I have two sound cards and a predecessor of the "all-in-wonder" series cards that allows me to input and output any format video or audio signal except for firewire on a pentium 200 box I built in 1995.    It also has Ultra fast and wide scsi and a raid controller. (not to be confused with the weaker ultra scsi).

I had very few issues getting the drivers to work in windows 95 and I still use that box now because one of the soundcards has a hardware sampler with 28 megs of sample ram that will play notes from a midi controller with ZERO LATENCY........because it is hardware.    It also has spdif digital out which I record with the other sound card.

My slightly newer box runs win98SE and has 3x soundcards allowing 16 channels of hardware ADAT input and output going through a digital mixer as well as having the same hardware synth as the win95 box with zero latency.......because the KT7A raid still had a 16 bit ISA slot.    

It can also input and output any type of audio or video signal through the all-in-wonder 8500dv card including firewire and I had zero issues finding drivers to work with it.

I was able to get this functionality in 1995 for the older box and 2000 for the newer one and it would not have been possible to do that with any operating system other than windows.

My older boxes work so well, that my "new box" is used only for browsing and gaming.

Even today, there are issues trying to get even a single expansion card working in operating systems other than windows while I can still pack a ton of cards into a windows based system.

Actually linux has an excellent driver support especially for older hardware. The devices may need to be configured by hand a little though - not everything works plug&play.

[icepac]

I had already tried linux and every flavor of it and I wasn't interested in writing a driver myself or waiting until my hardware was already collecting social security.

[Bizman]

Ipad !

Bought one for my wife.  She wanted one.  Now it sits in a drawer.

Can't find a use for it. 

It can be used in AH to show clipboard maps. Just download the PDF version of Pand's Strat Maps on the iPad, open the file and sweep them back and forth. Highly useful for all bombers, attackers and GV drivers! 

[bozon]

I've been using Linux for 12 years now as my primary OS. Since the last 4-5 years I've been using Ubuntu and never had any driver issues, except for 3D graphics performance for games. Ubuntu really made Linux an OS for dummies. I am a dummy. I now have a dual boot where Win7 has only games installed on it.