We haven't had a poll for a while, and I'm genuinely curious - how many Mandriva users do we have on Mandrivausers?
Some people have moved on to other distros, some keep a mix, some dual-boot, and some just have Mandriva.

What counts in this poll is your home system(s), not work machines or girlfriends' machines, but where you do 90% + of your home stuff.

I have Gentoo, Mandriva and Arch on the desktop and Debian on the lappie.

I usually use PCLinuxOS, sometimes WinXP and i also have Mandriva 2008 installed, but it doesn't work (some old hardware issues with a new kernel).

So if Mandriva doesn't work, wouldn't that make it "Mix of Linux/Mac/other systems, but no Mandriva" ?

Desktop: Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Windows (for gaming) and some other Linux installs that I don't even boot anymore. There may even be a Mandriva one, but I voted the last option anyways.
Laptop: OS X (a few OS's installed under Parallels)

Home system: 100% Mandriva

Work-laptop: Sadly Windows XP Pro (due to Canon EOS utilities, which do not run under Mandriva/Linux but which I need for my job)

Mandriva and Debian

The only thing that isn't working is a USB support, the rest is fine, so it is quiet capable system, updated also. I just don't use. but i might some day.

I only have Mandriva, I have over the years tried quite a few other distro's, but I found myself always coming back to Mandriva, I just like it for what ever reason, maybe the fact that it can be easily both very user friendly and you can dig deep if you desire, maybe just because Mandrake was my first venture into Linux, and I am familiar with it now ?

But I have noticed that I don't check out other distro's much anymore, maybe that will change if I set up another PC for that purpose.

For me Mandrivia iz da shiznitz

I have tried quite a few distros, but only ever ran Mandriva & PClinuxOS for the above reasons and also because they both have great user support

oddly enough, I don't use Mandriva because I can't dig as deep as I want to...

I voted Mix of Mandriva and non-Mandriva systems even though, at the moment, the only Linux I have installed is Mandriva on my desktop and I dual-boot Windows XP (work and school) and Mandriva. I go back and forth between Ubuntu, Knoppix, Kanotix and Mandriva, but you probably have an 80% chance of catching me with just Mandriva and XP installed.

Yes, but I think your shovel has a longer handle than most, certainly longer than mine. (and I am talking about shovels here, shovels and nothing but shovels)

On my notebook I have only Mandriva at the moment (every other distro I tried on it had some glitches, mainly with wireless), the Computer I use for Gaming has Win XP Pro and Mandriva on it, the rest is a mix of different Linux distros and a bit BSD, would try Mac OS X too, if it could be installed on a PC. Although I'm through my distro-hopping phase, I still like to see what others have to offer (and if it's only to convince me that Mandriva was the right choice for me).

Right now?

3 Hd that have:

WindowsXP Pro
Windows Vista Ultimate
PCLinuxOS
Mac OSX86

If I get bored with one I just switch.

Ubuntu, as it should surprise anyone. But now-and-then Arch linux if I'm bored and don't have anything else to do with my projects (UGA, modding, guide writting etc.) so it have been awhile since last time as there's lot to do most of the time.

I have openSUSE 10.3. I started in SUSE, with the help of some friends here, when SUSE was 9.1. While I enjoy openSUSE for the most part, there are somethings that annoy me. As for as the Software Installer in openSUSE (YaST is the tool, and Software Management is the module), it's not perfect. It needs parallel downloading. It also drives me crazy that the gui for the software module connects to zypp and then to rpm. Why not just go right to rpm? Don't get me wrong, zypp is extremely powerful. I also don't like Sax2. At the top of the xorg.conf script it says that it was generated by YaST (which is ok), but it then goes on to say "do not edit"!! WTF?! So you have an ATI or Nvidia card and you're new to Linux or openSUSE, you go to edit xorg.conf and see that and now your stopped. If you heed the warning, you're confused. How are you supposed to make changes with out editing, especially when Sax2 doesn't have all the options?

What made me switch was the problems with urpmi. I had all the repos set up, so that wasn't the problem. Urpmi simple didn't handle dependencies well. Zypp, in this regard, handles dependencies much better. I can hear someone saying urpmi has improved. I am sure, but I also do stay on top of urpmi, so I am familiar with the changes.

Any way, I am not looking for a debate. If you wish to start one on package management, please open a new thread.

I have remained with openSUSE since SUSE 9.1, and have contributed to it by writing howto's, and even starting in programming. I try to remain distro agnostic, as I don't want to limit myself. I have tried gentoo and saybayon. I found portage annoying. To me, one of the most important things of a system is the package manager. If it doesn't perform well, I don't stay long. I also don't like resource hungry distros. To me, this shows poor planning and implementation. Of course configuration and detection is important. That goes with out saying. But then most distros do well in this area. Finally, eye candy. To me, openSUSE has met all these criteria. I do miss the Mandriva partition tool. That was one tool I really enjoyed.

Hehehe... How things change... Now it's Home system: 100% Ubuntu

Mandriva on my mainpc, mandriva on my old compaq pc, mandriva on my old lappy and winxp on another compaq which I haven't used in ages. So I put mixed. Tried Debian about 5 years ago and it was that that got me into Linux. Found Mandrake/Mandriva, liked it and stuck with it.

Mandriva only with Windows XP on both computers a home folks.

Interesting - so from the people who have voted so far, it looks like around 40% have only Mandriva, around 80% have some Mandriva, and (of course) everybody has at least some kind of Linux

That seems to disprove those who reckon that all mub users have drifted away from Mandriva, sounds pretty healthy to me.

As for me, I put myself as "Only Mandriva". Actually my machine is triple boot, with XP (which I boot maybe once every few months or so, just to try something out or make a screenshot), Debian Etch (just to fool around with, used very very rarely) and Mandriva 2007.1 (well over 95% of the time). So to all intents and purposes, only Mandriva.

Arch Linux everywhere (I still have to decide about a lappy I'm going to buy). It has all the advantages Gentoo has, but you don't have to compile everything from source, and its initscripts are simple enough to be understood even from non-technical users, like me.

I don't recall anyone saying that all MUB users have drifted away from Mandriva.

With such a small sample size (45), I would be a bit more reserved when making a judgement based on the results. I would be more inclined to say that the poll "indicates", rather than "proves".

Agreed. With this forum having 18388 registered users, and a poll sampling of 45 votes is less than 1% of the registered users. There isn't enough of a response in the poll to get even a remotely decent sampling. So it would be more accurate to say that this poll is more out of curiosity and fun, than to prove anything. 184 votes would give a 1% sampling from this forum. So let's just have fun, and not worry about any scientific accuracy or representation.

Fedora and CentOS, here at home.

Yeah ok, bad choice of word on my part. I take back "disproves"