Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 30th Jun 2009 16:48 UTC
While traversing about the web this afternoon, I came across a rather funny subject title for a forum post. The person asked if any "normal" people use Linux, but went on to ask forgiveness for the lack of a better word than "normal." He wonders if anyone who isn't an open source, uber-geeky, stay-up-until-dawn-exploring-code fanatic actually uses Linux. Though the congregation here at OSNews is (obviously) comprised of very many of the aforementioned fanatics (in a sense; wear the title with pride), I also believe there to be many readers who are more or less "normal," for the lack of a better word, and plenty who may fall in between both spectrums of nerdiness.
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Gaming keeps a WinXP install on my hardware and a few prefered win32 only tools keep a WinXP VM installed.
For gaming it's great because I can fine tune the system for the specific game rather than having a do-everything install plus games. It has it's hardware support problems (how is bluetooth still such a mess) but it's only there to push whatever game I'm in to.
My network would be boring if it was only one platform though too. I can't imagine being limited to a single OS anymore. Even my work notebook is two hard drive installs plus a liveCD.