I don't think this Poll question will surprise anyone.   

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agreed and also i think the poll itself was misleading. The question was what "Do You Ever Use A Non-Windows Operating System?", which should have been a straight yes and no answer, but i understand the need to be a little more in-depth. The choices should have been different because the questions were more like what OS do you use or prefer. I put Windows only because 95% of the time i use windows. because i couldn't put Mac-OS because I really don't like it though i used it, so if to say i wear turtlenecks and jeans would assume that i use Mac-OS and thats all i use, in fact all the answer were aimed at "I only use this."

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but hey this is just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions

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Don't forget that the results of this poll will be misleading. There was (as I commented when the poll came out last week) no "all of the above" choice, or similar choice to indicate more than one alternate OS. I personally am a HUGE VMware user, and have many virtual machines in many flavors of MS products, Linux variations, FreeBSD, OSX, and others. So to view the results of the poll that "Linux coming in a close second" may be skewed, as Zoomba requested the main/most used alternate OS, but that isn't necessarily the whole picture.

Anyone looking at these polls as anything other than a conversation started is looking WAY too hard.

I use my Apple ][c as often as I use my Mac G4 with OSX and Ubuntu . . . once a month to make sure they work. 

First, I'll admit the question was poorly worded, but folks still seemed to get the general idea.

Secondly, I get the feeling people are reading far too much into this last poll question.  Similar to the comment on the original thread criticizing the poll for having an obvious Windows bias.  This is a Windows site, and the polls aren't deep and accurate.  They're 1 question posted for a week.

These polls aren't scientific.  They're also not trying to paint a comprehensive picture.  To get a complete picture of OS usage of our users, I would have to issue a complete survey, with multiple questions carefully worded to not influence answers.  I would then have to do some actual analysis of the results beyond simple % values.  Sorry, but figuring the margin of error on these things is probably not worth the time.

The polls are here to spark some conversation, and give at least a partial idea of what the community thinks about a topic, or what they use on their home PCs

Yes, let's spin those results. A vote for "OS of choice" gives you that "fact" that majority of the people visiting this site prefer to use an OS other than Windows. LOL

Since this is a customization site, I'm not surprised at the results - there's not much that can be done in the way of customization with a Mac, in my frustrated experience. As it is, I'm using Litestep on my WinVista.