Suggestion for poll makers: split the objective parts of a poll from from the subjective parts.

I use Windows slightly more than Linux because it's convenient on a laptop, the most important client for testing, and often things I want to try come out on Windows first/only (like Chrome). I look forward to a time when Linux will further displace Windows in my usage, but it doesn't seem imminent.

I could reasonably choose any combination of the first four poll options. I picked the 4th, because it seems most pragmatic, but that hides the point of the poll -- who's still using Windows?

Since polls here involve non-exclusive choice by design, I would suggest splitting options into a series of statements, and encouraging people to upvote all that are true. I suppose it's a little like normalizing a schema. For example:

- I mainly use Windows

- I mainly use MacOS

- I mainly use Linux

- I mainly use other

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- I sometimes use Windows

- I never use Windows

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- I use Windows because I prefer it

- I use Windows because I have to

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- I plan to maintain or increase my Windows use in the future

- I plan to decrease or eliminate my Windows use in the furtue

(News.YC software could make this easier by allowing grouping or subheads.)