Linux users: What do you use?

[Michael Hill]

1. What OS are you using? (Dual-boot? with what?)
Desktop: Triple Boot XP x64, Vista x64, Ubuntu
Laptop: Ubuntu
Server: Ubuntu

2. Why do you use that(these) OS(s)?
I use Windows on my desktop for gaming.
I use Ubuntu on everything else because it's fairly reliable, easy and fast to update and install software cleanly.

3. What advantages/disadvantages does it have?
See #2. The disadvantage of Ubuntu on my laptop is that my laptop is a tablet. So getting my Wacom digitizer was fun. Also, Purdue's wireless network kinda sucks. They know there's a connection problem when trying to connect with a Linux computer, but they don't know why. You might connect to it 1 in say...500 times.
Also, advantage: it will do what you tell it to.
Disadvantage: it will do what you tell it to.
What you tell it to do and what you want are not always the same, and you can easy suffer the consequences with Linux.

4. Related websites?
already posted.

5. What should an OS consist of?
An OS should be reliable and not crash when you need it not to (lol @ Windows with this one). However, there should be a rather easy way to fix human error (Linux sucks at times). The OS should support a wide variety of hardware and without DRM (cough Apple). There, I think I bashed most OSes on that one.