# Your OS? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607 "2000-04-02T18:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/1 "2000-04-02T18:33:00Z")
I was just reading another news story about Microsoft and the Justice Department (Talks Collapse) and got to wondering as to the extent of the MS monopoly. So, what OS do you use? Surely we’ve got some Macs and Linux driven visitors, and possibly some others. For my part, W95 at home, NT at work. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/2 "2000-04-02T19:09:00Z")
MacOS 8.1. I use Windows computers occasionally at school, but I’d never own one. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/3 "2000-04-02T19:20:00Z")
95 at work, NT Server at home! - Rick ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/4 "2000-04-02T19:29:00Z")
At work I use 98, at home I have systems running NT server, 98, Linux, and Novell DOS. * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) I am human, and I need to be loved Just like anybody else does ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/5 "2000-04-02T19:35:00Z")
I am on my little PowerMac now, it’s running OS 8.1. (Same as you, Max!) I am planning on making the transition to Macs. I also have a Windows 98 machine. * * * * * * Polydactyl Cats Unlimited “A Cat Cannot Have Too Many Toes” ---
**Author:** ![malden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@malden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malden)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/6 "2000-04-02T19:36:00Z")
Mac OS 9 at home Win 98 at work, when I shouldn’t be on this board! malden ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/7 "2000-04-02T20:27:00Z")
I use OS 8.1 here on my home computer, and either System 7.5 or Windows 98 at school, depending on which computers I can use. * * * ## _SanibelMan_ - [My Homepage](http://members.macconnect.com/~jonkleinow/) I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn’t looking good either. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/8 "2000-04-02T20:29:00Z")
W98 at home; NT at work * * * Grow your own dope! Plant a man. (Wally made me say it) ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/9 "2000-04-02T20:33:00Z")
I’ve got a PowerMac 6500/250 at home and a 350 MHz G4 at work, OS 9 on both. At work, I also use Virtual PC so I can access the one PC program I need, a crappy DOS theater reservation database. * * * “Lisa! In this house we OBEY the laws of Thermodynamics!” - Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/10 "2000-04-02T21:13:00Z")
Win 95. Just one computer, at home, an antique 486 from 1996 (Pentium? What’s a Pentium? :rolleyes :), one of the old=fashioned ones that still requires a chicken to be sacrificed to it once a month in order to perform properly (remember those?) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/11 "2000-04-02T21:18:00Z")
Well, I don’t own a computer, but whenever I can, I use the school’s Mac lab, which runs System 9. If the Mac lab is closed, I use a Linux box. Don’t ask me which version of Linux they run, I have no idea. If, for whatever reason, I am forced to use a Windows machine, I go home and do something else. * * * Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/12 "2000-04-02T21:20:00Z")
Hey, cool, look at all these Mac users! System 7.5 (Mac IIsi) at home, Windoze at school. * * * JMcC, San Francisco, [JJTM’s new page](http://fathom.org/jjtm/) If I were beaned with a fastball, fling my limp, lifeless body to first, cause, dammit, I earned it! ---
**Author:** ![billehunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/13 "2000-04-02T21:20:00Z")
PalmOS 3.5. Oh, and Win98. ---
**Author:** ![HeadlessCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@HeadlessCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeadlessCow)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/14 "2000-04-02T21:22:00Z")
I use Win2k normally and Win98 when I try to play games the Win2k can’t handle. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/15 "2000-04-02T21:26:00Z")
Win95 still purrrrring right along at home, networked to an NT proxy server so I don’t have to look at the stupid banner ad that [freeDSL.com](http://freeDSL.com) puts up there. NT4.0 at work. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/16 "2000-04-02T21:40:00Z")
Mac OS 8.6, I’m kinda waiting to see what OSx is all about. Peace, mangeorge * * * I only know two things; I know what I need to know And I know what I want to know Mangeorge, 2000 ---
**Author:** ![Nen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nen)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/17 "2000-04-02T22:03:00Z")
I use Mac OS 8.6 at home and Windows 98 at work. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/18 "2000-04-02T22:10:00Z")
Sun Solaris at work (gloat) Win98 at home * * * I do not merely dance. I bewitch. I seduce. I enchant and I bewilder. Throw money. (Gee, Wally must have seen me dance!) ---
**Author:** ![pipefitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@pipefitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pipefitter)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/19 "2000-04-02T22:13:00Z")
Windows 98 at home ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607/20 "2000-04-02T22:13:00Z")
OS2 at work (aarrrggghh) win 95 at home [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-os/15607.md?page=2)