New OS

[txrandom]

I decided to switch cases between my email/internet and gaming computer. I'm probably going to get rid of the email/internet computer and just use my gaming computer for everything. I hardly ever game and if I do, WC3 and Natural Selection run fine on my laptop.

So what OS should I install on it? It just needs to be fairly easy to use with a small learning curve and be compatible with my hardware. DFI LanParty NFII Ultra Rev. B, Radeon 9800, Audigy 2 ( not necessay).

The only thing I'll be doing is email, internet, writing, LAMP/WAMP stuff, media, but no gaming.

And nothing that costs money besides XP. I have a copy of XP for this computer, but I'm tired of XP.

 

[KLin]

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=34&flcache=8533785&entercat=y

 

[Pepsi90919]

MS-DOS 2.0

 

[txrandom]

Negative. I prefer to stay in OT.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Natural Selection

Ninja Skulk FTW

Try a BSD.

- M4H

 

[txrandom]

Yah, I actually played Natural Selection for ten minutes today. Brought back some good memories.

 

[Baked]

OSX Leopard FTW!

 

[phisrow]

I'll put in a vote for Debian or one of its derivatives; but BSD is good too.

 

[Willoughbyva]

PCLINUXOS A live cd with a good installer. Texstar does a good job on this distro.

 

[everman]

GNU hurd

 

[mugs]

There's this new OS called Windows XP, it's the SH!T!!!!!

 

[flawlssdistortn]

Originally posted by: everman
GNU hurd

ROFL

try Minix as well.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: flawlssdistortn

Originally posted by: everman
GNU hurd

ROFL

try Minix as well.

haha