[SGVLUG] Survey Sez...

[Emerson, Tom]

At the general meeting, 20 people signed in, [though we had 22 in the "drawing", and I know about 4 or 5 declined].  The question of the night, scientifically chosen to match the subject matter, was

   "how many systems are on your boot menu (and what are they)?"

Outside of a couple of tongue-in-cheek answers of "which system?" [from folks with many many systems], the usual answer was "2" (about half of the respondents overall); and the two systems were generally some form of windows and a big-name distro.  The odd answers within this were:

   -- Fedora Core (4) and DOS
   -- slackware and Ubuntu (the only claim of two different Linux distros)

Perhaps the oddest combo of linux + windows (in my mind) was Slackware and win98.

The most common "windows" was XP (though I'm not distinguishing between "home" and "pro")  There was at least one win2000, and as noted above, one instance of "DOS" [though this is technically more correct than all the other "windows" respondants, which are actually answering the question "how many user interfaces do you actually use on your system and what are they", though this would have generated answers such as "win9x and KDE" or "Gnome and XP", "bash and the DOS command line" -- you get the picture I'm sure...]

I suspect you could draw some conclusions about the order in which the answers were written (i.e., whether windows or linux was listed first) but that could all-too-easily incite a flamewar :)

Of the rest, one respondant claims 3 on the boot menu, and everyone else either declined to answer or answered with "1".  (some of the respondants who said "2" also listed two or more physical machines, each w/2 OS's)