[Poll] What Operating System do you use

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Hi

Started PC life in 2000 with W 98SE

read that microsoft.com had been cracked in 2000 and MS denied anything had been stolen
XP came out in 2001 and had a tasty time fixing up a number of faults

I could not possibly comment on my thoughts about these facts.
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So I decided to switch and a computer magazine in Australia advised there was Linux. On my PC it was a bitch to install.
In fact the first time I installed I arrived at the Console prompt with no X running as I did not know what my Linux video card driver was......roughly equal to a MS-DOS prompt.

Then I tried a timeware Suse which told me my video card driver. Then I installed Mandrake. These distros no longer exist under the original names BTW.

Now on Debian sid AKA unstable.

Linux is free and I truly own it,

AFAIK In the United States, the name Linux is a trademark registered to Linus Torvalds
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However as most MS users fail to understand what little they can do with their EULA, I know your heart is in the right place.

I'd love to make the full switch to Linux if I can get all my sw and peripherals working with it

Linux drivers for most hardware come from the kernel itself or you install extra software that enable a driver for the kernel.
b) Wine can run a fair amount of Windows software without needing to install Windows.
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AFAIK it not able to run probably the most recent Windows web browser. And why would you when you can run
Google Chrome or Firefox. Nor can it run the latest games that need DirectX type layers without some fiddling.
YMMV

There are a number of sw alternatives to in Linux but there are still some that don't exist.
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good luck

PS The vote count is so small that Linux is (today) about 50%. The last major web browser survey done by Google donkey years ago had MS around 96% Linux 1%. Caused quite a chuckle