Favorite Operating System

[tgkprog]

xp workws fine but i keep hearing linux is better over all but too usd to the interface and mail clients n windows

[Hauzer]

Windows XP in my opinion is an amazing Operating System, it's perfect for your everyday work.

Vista is very attracting I have to say, very. But it's not too good on features, but it's not bad.

Im not really fond of Macintosh very much, but i'd say it's best used for media and such, things like Graphics, Animation and such.

Overall, Windows XP is the best.

[javajenius]

Vista is better then xp, much better graphics. All of you who say windows xp is better, you need to upgrade lol.

Linux and Mac... :thefinger, lol joking.

[tnl2k7]

Right, everyone I know thinks I'm a fanboy and should be shot because of my rather strong opinions in the OS world. But, my reasons are, as far as I can see, justified.

I've been a Windows user since I was 6. That's 8 years, by the way. My grandad built me a basic, but powerful enough PC back in 1999 - 2000 sort of time, with 32MB RAM, and it was running Windows 98, with a not-to-bad Pentium III, I think...bit of a long time ago.

Anyways that was the first computer I ever used. I was mesmorised by it, intrigued. It was pretty simple to pick up and I was using office applications and everything with pretty good knowledge of them in no time at all.

Then I learned about the Internet, from an AOL (yuck!) advert. I nagged my mum loads and eventually I got AOL dialup. Painfully slow, but it was enough, then. I wasn't using Azureus and DownThemAll back then.

One day when I came to use the computer to surf a bit, it was really slow, much more so than usual. I noticed weird things happen, popups would appear, which I now know to be adware. I got frustrated, but I formatted the PC under my grandad's supervision, and got it set up and running again in no time.

Then I upgraded.......no.......downgraded :P to Windows ME. At first, nothing was wrong and all went really well. But then I tried to install some new RAM, and got blue screens of death over and over. I tried to recover the system, and failed.

Recently (last couple of years), I've been looking into the power of the Linux desktop. I've used Ubuntu, Mandriva, Vector, and openSUSE, and I like them all. I do still use Vista and XP, but the eye candy in Vista sucks compared to that of compiz fusion in openSUSE. The system gets no malware, partly because not many use it (relativiely, that is) and it may have something to do with the secure shell everything runs in, I'm not a programmer so I couldn't tell you.

But to cut a long story short, Linux is customisable, pretty, and powerful, not to mention secure. Sure it can be a pain in the backside sometimes, but so can Windows and OS X.

[Socius]

Windows XP, because you can play C&C on it ^^ and because most games are made for it
(Not Vista because even 'Vista games' don't work well on Vista :/ Luckily I tried out Vista at a friends and didn't 'downgrade' my XP to Vista...
It could be Mac, for work, but only Diablo II works on that one :P
(disclaimer: I know there are many games for Mac, but just not the ones I like)

[Madrox]

Windows XP
i dont use the unix, linux ETC, but i just tested various other and the windows xp is the best!
the window vista is a bad system, sorry Bill Gates...xD

[FalseHope]

Windows XP is compatible with most things, which makes it a great os, unlike Vista, which totally sucks.

[ThePaintGuru]

I like a bunch of obscure OSes, but I've been particularly impressed with NeXTStep and QNX, if anyone's heard of them.

NeXTStep was made in the 80s, but way ahead of its time. It is the basis of Mac OSX, but without all the crappy interface garbage.

QNX is very small, it can fit on and run from a floppy, but with a full graphical interface. DSLinux can't fit in that space.

[kkenny]

You do know that DSLinux is more advanced in QNX because QNX is like ancient now. The developers gave up on it (I think) so DSL is > QNX.

[Isaac20]

Linux is great, I tried it for a couple of months but when you're a gamer there's really no comparison to Windows. I'm using XP now but I'll probably switch to Vista once they iron out the rest of the kinks.