# Which Operating System are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 26, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757 "2003-02-26T23:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/21 "2003-02-27T02:26:51Z")
Windows 2000 SP3. After my therapy, I’m a cool guy to be around. Definite truth right there, chief. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/22 "2003-02-27T02:34:56Z")
Another Slackware Linux here. Bright, but mistaken for insane. Makes sense. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![d\_redguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@d\_redguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d_redguy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/23 "2003-02-27T02:46:40Z")
'nother Palm OS here. I agree with **stypticus** about signalling in traffic, though. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/24 "2003-02-27T02:47:30Z")
Huh. Debian Linux. Heh… Wonder how it makes these choices? * * * \<\< Buy a Pentium 4 so you can reboot faster! \>\> ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/25 "2003-02-27T03:16:24Z")
Palm OS here too. And I agree about the traffic, if necessary. In real life I’d try to be in the right lane five or six miles back, or never get on the freeway in the first place, or best of all, take the bus. ---
**Author:** ![LIONsob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/76d3ee/32.png) [@LIONsob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LIONsob)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/26 "2003-02-27T03:18:03Z")
TRS-DOS , the bad part about it is I still have my old TR-DOS 2.0 720KB disks in my big box-0-floppys on the desk beside me. Peace LIONsob ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/27 "2003-02-27T03:29:00Z")
windows XP ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/28 "2003-02-27T04:06:38Z")
And another Slackware Linux. _stepping into the Circle of Insanity with **Coldfire** and **Murcielago** _ ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/29 "2003-02-27T05:51:51Z")
Another Debian Linux. I was hoping for OS X, since that is the OS I use in Real Life. Oh well, at least I wasn’t Windows ME! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/30 "2003-02-27T06:14:41Z")
I second that, Y-babe… another Debian, heaving a huge sigh of relief that he’s not Windows Maximum Excretion. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/31 "2003-02-27T06:34:17Z")
Hey, I’m only the second OS/2 Warp here so far! I don’t even know what OS/2 Warp is…I hope it’s not an Apple thing, cause I hate Apple sooooo much. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/32 "2003-02-27T06:40:55Z")
OS/2 Warp. I’ve never touched that in my life. Of course, “if I end up Windows ME someone is going to be hurting” was right up my alley. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/33 "2003-02-27T07:14:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Windows 98. > You’re a bit flaky, but well-liked. > You don’t have a great memory, but everyone seems to know you. > A great person to hang out with and play some games. Heh. I think I’m closer to UNIX running on a VAX-11/780: Somewhere between the gutter (greatest of the CISC machines, something akin to being the most elegant and beautiful of the dinosaurs) and the stars (it was a great platform for Lisp, the Language of Computing Gods) and certainly looking up (UNIX, spawn of a million bad imitators and a few really good ones). ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/34 "2003-02-27T07:19:51Z")
Just noticed this: > [@](#): > > Or, if you ended up with GNU/HURD it > means you didn’t answer all the questions. Burn! That was a really great burn. (I think HURD is actually in a usable state now. I haven’t tried it yet, but the site implies that it at least boots… ) I think a Bearded Communist\* would like to Mach them an offer they can’t refuse. \*GNU/RMS, founder of the GNU Project. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/35 "2003-02-27T07:27:41Z")
After taking the test twice I’m either Windows 2000 or Amiga OS3. Does that mean I am a good friend who is ahead of his time with all his balls in the air who will benefit from therapy because I wasn’t given enough opportunity as a child? That’s gotta be better than being Windows ME. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/36 "2003-02-27T07:32:07Z")
> [@](#): > > with all his balls in the air Baliff, pants this man. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/37 "2003-02-27T07:40:44Z")
Apple 3.1 … at least I wasn’t ME. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/38 "2003-02-27T12:19:46Z")
windows 98. so true. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/39 "2003-02-27T14:00:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AntaresJB \* > \*\*I’m OS X. That’s a Mac thing, right? I’m technical-computer-stuff-stupid. I don’t know if I’m a good thing or a bad thing. Hmm… \*\* Well, you look like a bag of winegum, if that helps. I’m AmigaOS. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757/40 "2003-02-27T15:06:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by XJETGIRLX \* > \*\*Sweet! > > I’m OS/2 Warp > > \*\* Me too! Better than being Windows 3.0 I guess :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-operating-system-are-you/157757.md?page=3)