I don't have a favourite OS, because I'm not a slave of the software companies, I'm just use what I need. For design I go always with OS X. For research, I love Linux. But, for fun and productivity, Windowze. I hate uncle Gates, but this man spread this OS worldwide and most of the people use Win System. So, there's no favourites, just convenience.

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I've always liked Debian-based operating systems and have used pure Debian for a number of years. Most recently, I have switched over to Ubuntu for my home servers, and use Linux Mint for my desktop. I have Ubuntu 6.10 on my laptop (dual-boot with XP), that I'll be wiping out soon to put Linux Mint on it. Check it out; they have GNOME and KDE editions.

I also think Mepis is an excellent choice, but honestly haven't tried it in about a year or so. But back when I did, I was highly satisfied!

p.s. I also use Windows XP when need be.

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I am currently using Windows Vista Ultimate. Despite having Windows Xp Professional and Windows Web Server 2008 installed in the same system, I rarely use them

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Ubuntu is awesome dude! Go for it! I have been using it for past 4 years!

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hi friends,
I have used OS X for the last few years (sorry) and Ubuntu recently, however prior to that I used Windows exclusively and I still do for work. I have run everything from 3.1 to XP. I have not had Vista on my own computer as of yet, but I have used it at a local computer store (1gb RAM). If you open a Vista interface, ie Aero or Media Player, and move it around your desktop with the mouse, watch what happens to your CPU, it pegs it,So much for multi-tasking on Vista. From what I have read though, it's security features are much better than XP (read on) and its Networking is far superior to any other version of Windows. Personally, my favorite version of Windows is 2000, it is stabler although a little slower than XP. I also like 98. I do not like XP as I have had to fix problems on an ungodly number of computers that have had OS problems running XP. XP is not bad,IF you know and understand how to maintain it, unfortunately there are far too many people out there who just want to turn their computer on and surf the web, email, etc. and do not maintain their OS

More over Win2k Server. It is way FASTER than XP and I'll tell you why.
XP is the abbreviation for experience. Which in Microsoft's understanding means they have included a myriad of error catching code to try and interpret every potential USER input that could cause a fatal error. This additional data validation is what slows it down. With the high speed processors, you don't see it as much, but I am using a 400MHz Celron with 512MB ram and running the same software at home (3D Modeling) as at work, my system is faster than the 2.3GHz XP machine at work.
It is extremely accessible for tuning and tweaking, and it's rock solid. I have never had a blue screen in 6 years of use. The server version has a large selection of system tools and Microsoft has lots of free downloads of diagnostic and repair utilities. There are fewer hardware conflicts than any other Microsoft OS. It was the last OS by Microsoft that didn't have to be registered or activated to get updates. It will be supported until 2010 according to MS.
bye for now.

 

 

 

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Well, it has to be Windows since every application you would need is supported on it. But I also have Ubuntu, it's great and all but the application support for the Linux platform isn't that good when you've been a long time Windows user. If they port all the Macromedia/Adobe products (well, the most popular ones anyway) and do something with Steam then I'll be happy (and quite possibly use Ubuntu as my main OS).

I chose Ubuntu because it basically supported my hardware out of the box, I didn't need to configure anything at all and it's a really great distribution for people new to Linux.

And yeah mate, go for it. If your not a major gamer then you might not like it (since WINE and Cedega make them slower, buggier etc). If you run into any problems then you can use UbuntuForums.org, LinuxQuestions.org and so on.

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hey guys, ive been using windows xp and ubuntu 7.04 dual-boot, and i love ubuntu just for the fact of its structure, and how easy it is to set up applications, i also like windows due to all of the compatability.

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FreeBSD! Why? http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/?gallery=Daemonette

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i would have to say windows xp pro
nothing beats that.
well maybe a version of linux

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Personally, I'm using Windows XP SP2 and on some off times, I fool around with Kubuntu.

I used to praise that Windows 98SE was the best, most stable OS that we had in the Windows world. I never looked at Linux and am still shy of learning a new OS. However, I jumped into XP and the leap wasn't quite that bad. Being hesitant to upgrade to SP2 at first, I am now one of many users that find XP SP2 as the new stable, most compatible Windows OS out there.

There are a ton of Linux distributions out there, appealing to many, many tastes. The problem is hardware support. I run two laptops and sometimes Linux doesn't recognize the hardware I do have... which lead to experimenting with sUSE 10 a dead issue after hours and hours of trying to use ndiswrapper to get my wireless networking up and running... and failing. I jumped to FreeSpire because I liked the eye candy, but again I couldn't get it to recognize some of my hardware, notably the fact that I had it on a tablet PC and not being able to use it as a tablet anymore. I'm running Kubuntu now and just for eye candy and experimentation with Linux, which supports all of my hardware and even Beryl, which is a fun way to tell Vista "In your face!"

I hear a lot of great stuff about the Ubuntu distributions, and I can safely support them as one of the better Linus OSs that you can use.

So, in a nutshell, the "best" OSs would have to be Windows XP SP2, Kubuntu 7.04, and Windows 98SE.

But that's what worked for me. This topic is rather subjective.

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