which one do you guys prefer overall ? And why do you prefer it over the other ?

Rather slim on choices O.o'

Selected 'OTHER' since Win98Se isn't listed

Using it mainly for application compatibility, smaller size, low requirements, and it fits every one of my needs without issue. Be it gaming, running as a 24/7 webserver, or development platform... it has yet to fail me

yea i know i made the choices slim. i just wanted ppl to choose mainly betwen the two
sumone was tellin me more ppl will prefer linux over xp, so im tryin to prove their theory

I like both though I use Windows XP because of the gaming.

Windows XP Pro
Windows 2003 .net Server Enterprise
Windows 98

Windows XP. I've been using it since 2002 and haven't stopped and I don't plan on upgrading to anything else yet because the other OS's seem like trash especially Vista.

Um........... If that is what you are trying to prove, your data is definately going to be skewed in favor of MS for the simple reason that your asking this question on a MICROSOFT SOFTWARE FORUM NETWORK board!

Personally, my favorite is OpenSuse, but I don't transcode DVDs like I can with DVD-Rebuilder on XP, so the main software I use won't work on Linux, so i'm stuck.

Using WINE or VMWare slows it down too much & WINE doesn't like CCE too much either, so...........

EDIT: Also, you're trying to prove that people like Linux, why limit your choice to Ubuntu? I personally don't like Ubuntu, but like I said, I like OpenSuse.

Oh I want to say DOS because I installed it today and I forgot how much I like it.

can i say i pretty much like all three options

xp mce,vista ,gettin ready to look at ubuntu 8.10 lts beta