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Originally Posted by HarryT
Most people use computers to run applications on, not because they prefer one operating system over another, and it's perhaps easy to overlook this in our "enthusiasm" for an o/s.
Sure, if you're just buying a computer for web browsing, email, and word processing (which studies have shown is all that many computers get used for), you can use pretty much any o/s you like. If, however, you have more specific application needs, then that drives the choice of o/s.
Eg, I'm a keen photographer, and I'd be lost without Adobe Lightroom, so that constrains my choice of o/s to either Windows or Mac, and my personal preference is for Windows. I'm sure that there probably are Linux apps that can do most of what Lightroom does, but I don't want to have to learn how to use a new app. I'm happy with what I have.
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Yes. I have one program that I use in my hobby of digitizing and "restoring" old records (mostly LPs, but some 45s and 78s) which has no Linux version or any Linux equivalent (that I like). For that reason I keep my old XP box limping along until I get my new box up and running.
I spend much more time on my netbook (running Ubuntu) doing just about everything else.
In all honesty, I also do some audio work on the netbook -- especially jobs like converting the WAV files I create into MP3s, tagging them, getting them on and off my MP3 players, etc.