No.

Yep, Gnome!

i use Linux with graphics user interface ..
i know some new devices sometimes video card you need to shutdown the GUI
to install the driver on it ..
Linux are great OS and it very stable but for unknown reason you can't find drive for your device if Linux Can't detect it ...
i hope they find some utility similar to what windows have(ADD new hardware Wizard)

YES, I have a Vostro 1400 laptop with Vista, but I dual boot to Ubuntu 8.10, which is what I use for almost everything, only switching back when there is a certain feature that windows does that is difficult to use in Ubuntu. I far prefer the customizability and feel of Ubuntu over vista, which is clunky and badly organized. With the plugins I have installed, I can do almost any of the "eye candy" and usability features that a Mac can do, without paying the "Mac tax". This particular version, I will admit, is not quite as fast to boot as windows or OS X, but the next version is slated to release this month and is supposed to be much faster. GIVE IT A TRY!

I used to run FreeBSD with CTWM. I stoppd using FreeBSD when I couldn't get drivers for my NVIDIA 5200FX, never went back.

Right now I'm running gOs/Ubuntu on my netbook.

I have a machine that I keep as a backup and it is only a P3 700MHz. But it is quite fast running Ubuntu.

No, I do not. I have one Celeron 1.1GHz running a router distribution.

And I have Fedora installed as a Virtual PC... but I never use it. If I did use it, it would be running a GUI of course.

Yep. Gnome on ubuntu 9.04 beta.

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Yes, MythDora.

i boot from a USB device but i cant get it to boot XD im still learning... you got to start from somewhere

At home, all the times.
My home desktop is a only LINUX machine for 3 years now.

At work.
Its not my decision. Unfortunately.

Gnome on most desktops, XFCE on the older ones. Webmin on servers although I often just use the terminal. Compiz is interesting but I don't normally enable it as I don't find it useful. With Live CDs I use whatever they default to.

Ubuntu with Gnome. My machine is a dual-boot with XP, and I've found that I do pretty much everything on Linux now except for certain games or if a website requires Internet Exploder... I mean Explorer.

yes, openbox, gnome, kde and even xfce are too bloated.

xfce(ubuntu) on a acer aspire one and kde(debian) as a dual boot a desktop.

KDE on top of Arch linux, but X doesn't start at boot so, yes and no, depends on the mood

Gnome desktop on nearly all systems running linux/bsd except for my firewall/router but that one does have a nice GUI you can use in your web browser.

Seriously that my system do have a gui installed doesnt mean i cant run without or that it boots in to the gui whenever it boots.
For many tasks command lines are way better.

XUbuntu, only thing stopping me from removign vista is Touch screen and wlan

Nope,, no GUI on my Debian netisnt. Using it as a ftp/webserver. IMO that's the kind of stuff linux is good for. Windows is still my main OS. Running debian off vmware.

Xubuntu. Will remove vista as soon as I figure out touch screen and wlan

I've been using Linux since 1998, both on servers and as desktop. I don't even have Windows or any other Microsoft software at home. I'm a Unix system/net administrator and security consultant though... Not quite an average computer user. If you'd have to run some specific graphical/CAD/custom software, you might not have the luxury to choose. Or if you're into mainstream games. I'm not one of those users that tries to convince others the whole time, though I've helped non-technical people transition from Windows to Linux on the desktop successfully. The OS shouldn't matter to people no matter how little they know about computers, if all they do is browse, email, do some office work, play music and watch a movie now and then. Linux is user-friendly, especially when you help people on their way with the hardware setup.

Hardware support shouldn't be an issue to most people either; the only real issue would be the level of support for the latest graphic cards, but it's not as if you're going to be able to play most commercial games in Linux anyway. In fact, I have more faith in the stability of (even minimal) Linux drivers than in the crap some companies dare to ship without any QA review. Let's face it, most of the time it's stuff like drivers that makes your system misbehave and/or crash.

FreeBSD/OpenBSD I've never used as desktop, but at least FreeBSD should do quite well there too, with a bit of luck in hardware choice. Same goes for Solaris really, unless you have the luxury of running it on real Sun hardware of course...

Hardware support for alternative operating systems is often a matter of corporate interest and an economical and often also "political" issue rather than something that Linux (or *BSD) should be directly blamed for. If companies don't provide either drivers or tech specs for their products, it's going to be rather hard to make that hardware work no matter what OS you're in.

Gentoo, gotta love it.

I use both, but primarily a GUI. I spend a lot of time in the console, however.
My primary Linux system is Arch Linux. Just recently, I have moved completely away from Windows.


zelog, I believe I heard better touch/multitouch screen support is coming soon

Yes, OpenSuse 11.1 X_64, KDE 2.2 runs very well on my laptop.Compaq Presario (HP) CQ60-220US with 4 gig ram.
Jack

Yes, I run Ubuntu and arch(although I dual boot with winXP) both have gnome. I'm still waiting for KDE to get a little more stable.

I run PC-BSD here for my main desktop, and my Wife's as well. It's underlying OS is FreeBSD 7, is running KDE 4.2, and works quite well, even for more novice open-source users.

I've tried Linux numerous times in the past, usually once a year for the past 4 years now, each time, I would run straight into a dead-end. First it was DSL, then PC-BSD, then Ubuntu, then Myth-Buntu. Either it was a hardware compatibility issue or Linux simply not offering that which I needed to perform on my computer. However, this last time I gave Linux a shot I was happily surprised. I tried out Linux Mint after deciding Ubuntu just was not enough, and was instantly pleased by how much more Windows-like Mint was. I could finally play a DVD and rip and MP3 without having to add components! It also has a VERY easy remove application function, a nice Ubuntu-derived install apps application, and with a few "how-to"s on the internet, I managed to get transparency and other neat windows effects working using an old Radeon 7000. I would go so far as to say that I could probably use Mint as my main OS, if it would only work with my new Lexmark printer. I'll keep on eye on that. With more Linux installs becoming standard, hardware makers are started to produce Linux drivers. Unfortunately, I sold my Linux Mint box. That was the purpose anyway, to put an OS on that system so I could sell it. I do miss it though, and have thought hard about sometime returning to Linux Mint once I get another chance. As of right now, Window XP still rules the roost.

openSUSE switching between KDE 4.2, KDE 3.5.10, Gnome 2.26, XFCE 4.6, Openbox, LXDE.

Maybe you should ask if someone is still using console only Linux/BSD ?

Both, Primary desktop runs under Ubuntu/Gnome. My netbook is running Eeebuntu. All servers and router are managed through command line or web interface. At home I have only one XP machine, just in case, at work I am Windows system administrator so all servers and workstations are running some kind of Windows.

Yesh Arch and Buntu (no windoze). Foss GUI's are much better than windoze GUIs and faster and stabler too. Windoze GUI doesn't even have virtual desktops. And it is not at all configurable like linux. You can easily edit scripts and write etc etc for example you can start a RAM session where the HDD is stored in RAM which makes everything ultrafast (great if you've 4GB + RAM) . You can edit conf files and make it boot ultrafast (at least in Arch). Compiz with Gnome runs full speed in my P4 1.5 / 768 MB / Geforce 6200 and then you can easily compile and fasten everything with foss getting the real performance out of the hardware without overclocking/overvolting. I like KDE 4 but I'm waiting for it to mature. Also XFCE 4.6 runs easily on a celeron 600 having > features than Windoze. And then there's LXDE with it's great file manager....

The only good thing windoze has is DirectX. I wish we could have better OpenGL / XServer.