Operating systems

Post by **Urs** » November 10th, 2007, 12:49 am

I used to use Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. Now I use Mac OS X 10.4.10, although I'd love to use Leopard.

wsultzbach · Post by **wsultzbach** » November 10th, 2007, 4:23 am

I also use Mac OS X 10.4.10, and I would too love to get Leopard (my friend has it).

Post by **turin** » November 10th, 2007, 5:13 am

Debian Linux. On my family's desktop we run Sid, but I'm cowardly running Etch on my laptop. (BTW, I find it very amusing that they name the Debian releases after Toy Story characters.)

Post by **Baufo** » November 10th, 2007, 8:59 am

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) since for some reason Wesnoth runs about three times slower under Windows XP Pro which I keep on the same machine as dual boot (because I need it for school).
On my families PC we have Windows 98 (!) which I hate and therefore almost never use.

PingPangQui · Post by **PingPangQui** » November 14th, 2007, 9:27 am

Gentoo here, though I wrote this message from a university terminal using windows XP.

Post by **Iris** » November 14th, 2007, 11:02 am

openSUSE 10.3 x86_64, Vista x86 Home Basic in my laptop.
Fedora Core 6 x86 in my university's computer room for physics.
openSUSE 10.3 x86 (home-compiled kernel), XP SP2 (dead) in my desktop.

Dveman115 · Post by **Dveman115** » November 15th, 2007, 12:19 am

Antone here use windows vista or mobile?

Post by **Aethaeryn** » November 15th, 2007, 12:20 am

Read the post above you for one.

cool evil · Post by **cool evil** » November 15th, 2007, 12:28 am

I would love to get my hands on vista (premium and ultimate only), but even if i could, i would wait for SP1 first and wear out my still decent 1-year old windows xp media center PC.

commanderkeen · Post by **commanderkeen** » November 15th, 2007, 2:22 am

I use a combination of 98, Fedora Core, and XP. I play Wesnoth on Windows because I can't be bothered DLing another version for Linux...

Oh, and Vista sucks. I've yet to meet someone in person who likes vista.

Drake Clasher · Post by **Drake Clasher** » November 15th, 2007, 2:38 am

I use Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn

longhair · Post by **longhair** » November 15th, 2007, 4:17 am

The computer I bought for our church (Friends' Meeting actually) came with Vista on it. It seems ok if sluggish compared to the Kubuntu I put on the other 1/2 of the hard drive. It's perfectly usable. Still, we're mostly using the Kubuntu side. (though that might be because of the influence of myself and another guy who is a Debian user.)

At home, we use either Kubuntu or Xubuntu, depending upon how new the computer is.

ILikeProgramming · November 15th, 2007, 5:28 am

You can look at the download stats from sourceforge:

Code: Select all

(1.3.9)
Win:12572
Mac: 4299

(1.3.7)
Win:14328
Mac: 6566

(1.2.7)
Win:19832
Mac:14377

(1.2.6)
Win:46951
Mac: 8959

(1.2.5)
Win:31376
Mac:17860

(1.0.2)
Win:192943
Mac: 47192

PingPangQui · Post by **PingPangQui** » November 15th, 2007, 1:04 pm

Lets do some statistics (based on the numbers above).

Assuming the following
- that the number of downloads equals the number of users
- the number of users hasn't changed over time
- the number of user using an operating system other than windows, osx or linux can be neglected

we would come to the following result regarding the proportions of the operating systems used by wesnoth users

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Post by **ivanovic** » November 15th, 2007, 1:35 pm

Sorry to tell you, but your numbers are wrong. The linux users can not be estimated via sf.net, since almost all distributions do have their own mirrors and we have no download numbers for those. Plus you don't know how many of our users do update their versions regulary.

In short: there is no way to really estimate the user numbers for linux. We can only say that we probably have more Windows users than Mac users because sf.net is the main source for those two. The main source for most linux users is *not* the source tarball, it is the distribution, which we have no numbers about.

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