What's your favourite OS

[Zorium]

No, compatibility is not an important factor to measure OS quality. If it were, then neither Linux nor BSD nor MacOS would be good OSes. The criteria are:
- security
- stability
- functionality
- usability

Agreed but no one is going to buy an OS that doesn\'t have any programs available for it (except maybe a programmer with an unlimited supply of coffee).

-Zorium

[Seytra]

Indeed, it is a factor of merchantibility. However, AFAICS, MenuetOS already has a webserver, so it might be used to implement really tiny webservers, which would be important for the embedded market as web administration becomes increasingly important. Soon you\'ll use your microwave oven using a web interface *shudder*. I wasn\'t able to actually test the web server, though, because it didn\'t detect my network card, but probably it currently only features static content.

[caps_phisto]

Fedora Core 3 (linux)
Fedora Core 2 (linux)
Fedora Core 1 (linux)
RedHat 9 (linux)
Redhat 7.2 (linux)
Knoppix (Debian variant live boot Linux CD) (linux)
PHLACK (Morphix variant) (Morphix is a Knoppix Vairant) (linux)
Slackware (linux)
MAC OS X (Panther)
Window NT 4.0
Windows 98 SE (Most Stable Win 9x ever!)
Windows 2000
Windows XP

This is my list..I have used them all and they are in order from my favorite to least favorite.  As you can see Linux owns that list.

Also I noticed a great many people in this list would like to learn Linux...I would suggest downloading a copy of Knoppix
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

This distribution of Linux only requires one CD and no intallation!  That\'s right, burn a copy of this little baby, insert it into your CD drive, reboot your computer (make sure you can boot to CD-roms) and BOOM!  You are now running Linux!

Note:  Installing software for this disto can be a bit of an issue, I suggest once you have gotten the hang of things, try a Fedora Core.  So far it has done me no wrongs, and I love every minute using it (btw that is always as I DO NOT run ANY Micro$oft Products at home).

Nice thread....I like being given the chance to convert Windows People!

Now announcing the new Micro$sucks WinBlows 3000!  Only from Micro$loth!

[Arzosah]

1. Slackware Linux
2. Mac OS X
3. Windows XP
4. Windows 98

God, I hate Windows. I hate having to use it X(

[WiseKran]

Win95 for me


too bad i have xp

[Harkin]

i personally love Linux:

1.Gentoo Linux
2.Windows Xp <--cause I was rasied on it
3.MS-DOS <--I can remember all the fun i using that back in the day

[fken]

I hate windows because of the memory problem and the lacks of security and the fact everything even the very littlest program is going to be sold and the fact Microsoft hide everything. People who just used Windows think they are master, often the best (and so one)... and when there is a real crash they have to format their disk (as everyone do)...

The day I start to use Linux (a mandrake release) I was lost... strangely when I had to copy a cd I was able to choose something like fifty maybe 100 different options... I wasn\'t aware this kind of options existed before... but the windows programs never spoke about that... Today there are a lot of program which help you to use a linux release without knowing anything... and the automatically programs arrived on linux and the \"windows movement\" (the one which allow people to use a computer without being able to use a computer) arrived on linux Mandrake (which stay a very good release of Linux I admit). So I use Debian Linux...

I\'m not a professional. I dont know a lot of things in computer. So something don\'t work very well on my linux debian and I can\'t install games like planeshift Cube or vegastrike (snif...) but I everytime learn to do something or some computer language. And programming on linux even in C/C++ is easier on linux platform... no comparaison !

My favorite one is
Debian
 then Fedora Core and Mandrake Linux
and finally a microsoft one (tadatadatadatada...)
MSDOS (the more stable...)

[windwalker]

DOS

rocks

sox


windows XP

and i am master...format?.... ive never formated a windows machine... not in like 5 years of using them

[steuben]

win xp

because it is easy to support and deterimine when things are s.e.p. at least from my company\'s angle.

[Ayala]

SuSE Linux

I switched from windows to SuSE Linux 8.1 a year and a half ago and have not looked back.  Have upgraded to SuSE Pro 9.2 in the meantime.  It\'s extremely stable and I can do just about everything I want to do on it (playing windows games being the only thing I can\'t do).

I have to admit tho, that I have managed to crash my system 8 times since I\'ve had it.  Incidentally, those 8 times I was trying to run a windows program via wine.....

[mariostrife]

1.) Suse 8.2 (started with mandrake 5 or 6 and then switched to suse)
2.) Win2k

for gamin purpose i use my win2k+sp2 and all updates, cos wine makes many probs with my games! have a debian distri too but it doesnt likes my gfxcard! have tried to update the x11 system and the ati drivers but i didnt run with a GUI! And without ICEWM, without ME!

Linux for work and windows to play!

P.S. for the linux newbies! NEVER install Windows after installing Linux! The other way is ok! cos Windows will overwrite the MBR and you cant boot your linux anymore(and to configure a bootman. under linux affords a lot of time! believe me! )! Use the Linux Bootmanagers for multiboot systems

P.S.S. I have seen a shot in the web from a linuxbox that is running Photoshop!!!

[Grindalyx]

I\'ll have to go with Windows XP.

[dimaq]

My favourite OS seems to have case of schizophrenia...

On one had it has to run planeshift well, on the other it has to be open, free and fair.

So far the medics didn\'t find a way to recombine these two personas back into one (they used to be one during the Molecular Aeon).

The latest experimental medicine I intend to try is cedega, which would be kinda funny - a game developed on linux, releases windows binaries that are being run [under cedega] back on linux. hilarious twist of fate, eh? (pun intended)

[Rulzern]

Debian, I can\'t live without apt. :p

[Induane]

I love apt as well. I first became attached to it using Yoper Linux, not debian, but I have moved onto an os called Ubuntu which is based on debian unstable. - it is great.