1. What is your main OS? Mandrake 10 Official

2. Do you dual boot between Windows and Linux? Yes

If yes:
i) Why do you use the other (the one not specified in question 1)? Primarily for games. If I ever get to the point I can afford vmWare, though ....

ii) Do you plan to switch to one OS and dump the other? No, but if I did, it would be to go all Linux.

iii) Which has the largest partition? or are they equal? Windows, if only because it is so bloated, and the games I play take up so much space. -- Win2K: 30G / Linux: 10G

1. Linux - Slackware
2.No dual boot,only Slack
3.VmWare only for one program - Network Assistant -> Local chat
4.Slack - 80GB ext3 (/root)
- 120GB reiser (movies,TV serials,books)
- 160GB reiser(music)

1.) My main OS is Windows
2.) Yes, I dual boot
2i.) To experiment with something different, I also play my DVDs in Linux because XINE is better than PowerDVD in Windows. Plus I can bypass all the annoying copyright notices. Also, because aMSN has more features than Microsoft's own MSN Messenger client.
2ii) No, I have so many programs in Windows that don't have sufficiently-developed alternatives in Linux, such as Photoshop, MS Publisher, and MS Office.
2iii) Windows has the largest partition, but only because Linux can access the Windows partition but not vice-versa.

Linux. Duh.....
Uhmmm.... two systems&kvm-switch. No Dual-boot as per the definition. And NO WINDOWS on either; The other one is running DRDOS7.03 , so I can play my old games properly.(DOS-Box doesn't get it in this regard)
See answer 2
As soo as Linux will have enough good games to my taste(ie.-NO stupid FPSs or "sports-games") to keep me busy gaming. For all the rest Linux is best suited.
Linux as it requires the most diskspace ; Those old DOS-games provide all the superior gameplay (albeit not in graphics and sound , but those are of minor importance to me) I so dearly miss in modern games.

PS.- Why is it always assumed , dual-booting is between Windows and Linux?
I know of a guy that dual-boots DR-DOS , PTDOS , FrreDOS and OpenBSD.
"The Majority" is NOT always "The Standard"....

1) I use fedora core 1 and winxp ( i have 2 machines)

2) Again I have 2 machines, but for the poll ill answer the rest....

2.i) Learning linux, Still use windows at school for matlab (dont have matlab for linux yet)

2.ii) Want to drop windows (not entirely though) at some point

2.iii) 50 gb on linux, 30 gb on windows, 160 gb external HD (ntfs)

1. Windows XP is the main OS. SuSE 9.1 is the secondary until I am able to get everything working in Linux. I see those roles changing in the near future.

2. Yes, I dual boot.
i) I use Windows because it's familiar. I'm trying Linux for the same reasons everyone has heard a thousand times.
ii) How long term is this question? I guess the answer depends on where Linux goes in the future. I would consider it, but as it stands right now, I keep Windows around for Macromedia Studio and a few games. If games weren't something I cared about right now, I'd use VMWare to run Macromedia Studio and the yearly income tax software among a few other small things.
iii) I guess Linux has the largest partition. I have two hard drives, a 120 and a 60 gig. Windows has a 40 gig partition on the 120 drive, and Linux has the whole 60 gig drive to itself. The remainder of the 120 gig drive is storage for both operating systems, but is formatted as NTFS so that Windows doesn't have any trouble using it.

1: My main OS is (currently) Mandrake Linux 9.1 (severely hacked about though)
2: No - Windows is not present on my machine.

I do, however, multiboot many OSs, just not Windows. This is not (always) an idealogical situation - I do not avoid Windows just because it is Windows. I have no reason to run it. All the hardware that I actually use works with Linux, and I am not a gamer, so there's no need to run Windows, and there is no want to run it either. I multiboot other Linux distros because I am a habitual tester - sometimes to my detriment (look for my thread ranting about Lindows/Linspire) - and I enjoy learning about other OSs aswell as Linux.

1. slackware 9.1
2. yep - windows xp as well
3. my family cant handle linux
4. windows has the whole of a 250gb hard drive, linux has a 80gb hard drive

1. Mandrake 9.2
2. no

Currently, subject to revision soon:
1. Red Hat 9
2. Yes
2i. Gaming
2ii. Unfortunately, probably not.
2iii. Currently, Windows (it resides on an 80GB drive, Linux on a 40GB drive. Soon it will be a 40/40 split, with a shared 40GB FAT32 drive for data).

1. What is your main OS?
Server - SuSE 8.2
Desktop - Win98SE, Slackware-current, Gentoo or SuSE 9.1 (yet to be determined) triboot
Laptop 1 - Slackware
Laptop 2 - Win98SE
I use Windows/Office 2000 at work so I need my windows at home. I refuse to buy another Microsoft OS/Office solution tho, so I'm living with 98SE and Office97 SR2. This is a big problem with any access database I build at home and bring to work (access 2000). Can you say "forced upgrade path". Frankly, I think they both suck equally.

2. Do you dual boot between Windows and Linux?
I think I answered that above.

i) Why do you use the other (the one not specified in question 1)?
I use linux (at home) 95% of the time. I use windows if I need to do work
at home. I use windows 100% at work. Just the way it is. Tho, I must
say that the lack of basic MS Office skills I see from people who should
know better makes me think that a switch to open source would cause
very little turmoil - they'd be equally as incompetent and would likely not
even notice. I am being completely serious! F'ing Idiots. Sorry - bad week.

ii) Do you plan to switch to one OS and dump the other?
I have essentially switched to Linux except for work. I won't buy MS.

iii) Which has the largest partition? or are they equal?
Of 130 gigs of storage combined, 14 gigs is Fat32. The rest is reiserfs or ext3
My only dual boot system has 10 out of 40 gigs devoted to windows.

Main OS: Slackware(somewhere between 9.1 and current)

Dual Boot: Slack's got all I need, so no.

1. What is your main OS?
2. Do you dual boot between Windows and Linux?
If yes:
i) Why do you use the other (the one not specified in question 1)?
ii) Do you plan to switch to one OS and dump the other?
iii) Which has the largest partition? or are they equal?

1. Mandrake Linux 9.2
2. Yes.
i)It is still there because I am migrating to Linux, and it has taken some time to get all my hardware running under Linux. It took me about a month to get my flatbed scanner running. It took Time also to get my camera to talk to linux. The biggest time condumer is not a linux problem, but me learning linux well enough to get the hardware to work with it.
ii)Yes. I'm almost there.
iii)Linux, this answer is soon to be irrelivent, once I blow away windbloze once and for all.

Main OS: SuSE Linux
Dual boot?: Sorta...I've got Win2000 on hda1 as a "just in case", but haven't used it.
Dump Windows?: Probably...there's an XP box in this house I can use if I ever get the urge.
Largest partition: Linux

i hate to be the pedant, but this are you really meant to be cluster sampling?