All time favorite operating system

[FerrelGeek]

CP/M
yep

lol. I used that on my co-op job.

I'm happy with Win 7

 

[edro]

Win2000 and XP were amazing for their times, but in hindsight, they were archaic. (drivers, errors, crashes)

Win7 seems to just work. With the internet and driver catalogs, it just works. That's pretty important. A lot of it has to do with the internet, USB, hardware integration, etc.

 

[Smoblikat]

Windows XP. Windows 7 has too much BS protections and safety nets to prevent you from using it.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Favorite as in, liked to tinker with, have most respect for, and love... It would be Slackware or OpenBSD.

 

[DannyBoy]

Server: CentOS 6
Windows: Win 7
Mac: Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard was probably the fastest and most stable of any OS I've ever used, ever.

 

[clamum]

BeOS.

Just kidding. I have a soft spot for Windows 2000 and XP, and used the latter until mid-2009, but I like Windows 7 and 8.1 better. I run 8.1 now and like it quite a bit.

 

[midwestfisherman]

I just switched over to Win 8.1. that being said Win 2000 has been the best and most stable OS that I can remember from the Win side. But I have to say Mac OS X has been awesome.

 

[Childs]

Solaris 2.6 is probably my all time favorite. For Windows, I think Windows 2000 was the best one I liked. Mac OS, maybe 10.4.x (Tiger). I always wanted to like OS/2, but I never could get into it.

 

[ultimatebob]

Server: CentOS 6
Windows: Win 7
Mac: Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard was probably the fastest and most stable of any OS I've ever used, ever.

I just can't forgive the CentOS/RHEL guys for defaulting all network connections to OFF during installation in version 6. I tend to forget to re enable them and then get bit in the ass by it after installation.

I guess that my favorite Mac OS version was Mavericks, but they're all so similar to me with the exception of Yosemite. That UI still seems cartoonish to me.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Windows 7 was seems to be the point at which MS focused on having less bloat and since then minimum requirements for their OSes haven't gone up significantly and arguably they have improved slightly in performance.

Or did they just reach maximum bloat and the hardware finally get fast enough to cover it up?

 

[*kjm]

Back in the day OS/2 Warp.

 

[Childs]

I just can't forgive the CentOS/RHEL guys for defaulting all network connections to OFF during installation in version 6. I tend to forget to re enable them and then get bit in the ass by it after installation.

I guess that my favorite Mac OS version was Mavericks, but they're all so similar to me with the exception of Yosemite. That UI still seems cartoonish to me.

Yosemite's UI has really grown on me. When I log into a Mavericks server everything just seems old.

 

[Drako]

Going to have to go with XP.

We still have machines in our lab running XP today.

 

[ultimatebob]

Or did they just reach maximum bloat and the hardware finally get fast enough to cover it up?

I think that Vista was still the highpoint of Microsoft OS bloat. Hell, there were plenty of brand new laptops at the time that couldn't run the new Aero UI properly.

 

[NetWareHead]

Novell NetWare.

 

[holden j caufield]

win7 is so rock solid, been running it as the host with probably 8 virtual machines has never crashed on my thinkpad. I've been putting it on sleep/hibernate and I've rebooted maybe 2x a year.

 

[rh71]

I ran fine on Vista for many years, but have succumbed to WIN7 the same time I upgraded to an SSD. Win 8 is just too much navigating and clicking around.

 

[clamum]

I ran fine on Vista for many years, but have succumbed to WIN7 the same time I upgraded to an SSD. Win 8 is just too much navigating and clicking around.

Check out 8.1. If it weren't for the different screen when I press the Windows key, and the different loading screen, I wouldn't know the difference between it and Windows 7.

 

[skimple]

Reiser FS!

 

[monkeydelmagico]

win7

There was an old apple OS that I really liked from back in the 80's but not sure if it was 5 or not.

 

[lxskllr]

Reiser FS!

Killer file system.

 

[skimple]

Killer file system.

HA!

 

[Vdubchaos]

First and last person in the history of the world to say that......you get the honors OP.

WOW

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

No love for Bob?

 

[Ichinisan]

Check out 8.1. If it weren't for the different screen when I press the Windows key, and the different loading screen, I wouldn't know the difference between it and Windows 7.

Until you try to walk someone through doing something like setting a manual IP or DNS over the phone. You can't assume they're comfortable with a right-click. Have to make them type "view network connections" into the Start screen...

For some reason, you can't rename a network profile without editing the registry. You know, when Windows decides what to call your network. Most people end up with "[ssid] 3" or some other number after various equipment and configuration changes. I ended up with a wired connection called "XXXX-5GHz" -- which I wanted to change because it implied I was using wireless and it was confusing. I typically have the desktop computer's built-in 802.11ac disabled, using only a wired Ethernet connection unless I'm testing something. I had to edit the registry to change the name to "Home."