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Question: Which OS Do You Use Most?     you can pick all 4 if you like
Windows - 18 (34.6%)
Linux - 28 (53.8%)
Mac - 5 (9.6%)
How The Hell Should I Know? - 1 (1.9%)
Total Voters: 44

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Marble of Doom
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« on: August 12, 2009, 09:27:43 AM »
It doesn't matter about flavors or versions, just matters the software in general.
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HITMAN
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2009, 09:53:04 AM »
So, what is the reasoning for your poll? Plain curoisity? Developing things for OA? Making a virus but dont know which OS it should attack?
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2009, 11:02:57 AM »
I think it's always interesting whether the open source game development method brings more open source os users and they can counterbalance the market share of a closed source operating system. We did this poll once with the Hungarian Community of Battle for Wesnoth (GPLed turn based strategy game) and it turned out that 53% of the users play on Linux and 47% on Windows, and noone on MacOSX or BSD or Solaris or other. It was an under 100 votes poll, and only for a small country, these results can be much different.
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2009, 12:41:13 PM »
You can have an eye on stats of TuxFamily download mirror, sorted by Operating System.

This month, 60% of persons who downloaded OA on that mirror are running Windows.
Around 10% of Linux users, running mainly Ubuntu.

However, linux distributions have their own repositories, so we can hope most users use them and don't appear in stats Wink

We have got stats of our french wiki and forum which are more optimistic towards Linux, with 500 unique visitors by month, 45% is Linux, 45% Windows, rest is Mac. Wink
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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2009, 02:10:36 PM »
Edit mid 2013: Using linux for over a year now. Changed vote.

Quote from: Marble of Doom on August 12, 2009, 09:27:43 AM
It doesn't matter about flavors or versions, just matters the software in general.
Using win XP or win vista/7 is a huge difference. Almost as much as XP/ubuntu
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Marble of Doom
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2009, 06:56:08 PM »
I know xp and vista are both very different but they are both forms of windows. I am just curios to see how the community is set up.
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2009, 11:38:09 PM »
98SE and XP are also very different forms of Windows.
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Progress of OA3 currently occurs behind closed doors alone

I do not provide technical support either.

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RMF
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« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2009, 04:02:55 PM »
I'm actually supprised there are more Linux here than windows and mac together. It's obvious that a game like this attracts more linux, but that it's that much I never would have thought!
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« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2009, 04:33:53 PM »
Linux makes a nice Desktop, but for my server i run freebsd.
So define using: i am mostly behind linux, but my freebsd machine makes more hours.
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jukeboxhero
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« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2009, 10:31:11 PM »
Windows XP SP3
OpenSUSE 11.0

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bboston7
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« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2009, 02:55:07 PM »
Quote from: Cacatoes on August 12, 2009, 12:41:13 PM
You can have an eye on stats of TuxFamily download mirror, sorted by Operating System.

This month, 60% of persons who downloaded OA on that mirror are running Windows.
Around 10% of Linux users, running mainly Ubuntu.

However, linux distributions have their own repositories, so we can hope most users use them and don't appear in stats Wink

We have got stats of our french wiki and forum which are more optimistic towards Linux, with 500 unique visitors by month, 45% is Linux, 45% Windows, rest is Mac. Wink

Wow, I didn't know that anyone still uses BeOS.  I thought that whole crowd went on to use Haiku.
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