I'm interested to see what OS(s) people use on their main computer. Windows? Mac OS X? GNU/Linux? BSD? Solaris? BeOS? If you do, why do you use it? Technical reasons, usability, ideology? I use Ubuntu GNU/Linux although I do rarely use Windows Vista Home Premium for essential games. I find Linux to be much faster than Windows even on new hardware, and of course it is far more secure so I don't need to manage antivirus programs or firewalls. I also feel a strong ideological need to use Linux, because I believe free software (as in freedom as well as cost) is definitely the way forward (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 ). I find Ubuntu the easiest to use out of the various Linux distributions, and it has all of my favourite programs: Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, The GIMP and Inkscape.
Ubuntu. Linux for human beings.
If you are interested in trying Ubuntu or Linux in general, PM me and I will answer your questions and help you install it if you wish.
