Poll: Whats the best OS you've used?

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urbantechie

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Whats the best OS you've ever used?

Win95 A or B or C
Win98 FE
Win98 SE
WinME
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows NT 4
Linux
DOS
Windows NT 3.51
Windows 3.1/3.11
BeOS
OTHER

Shees...fixed it to "Linux"
 
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8008S

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i think if you just put linux in general, it'd be a better option since i do not use any distro's you have listed.
 
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Blackhawk2

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Windows 95 OSR 2.1. I've played with them all but for me this is the one that crashes the least and is easiest to use.
 
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Rigoletto

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Aug 6, 2000
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Just kidding it's horrible. I remember trying to load Netscape with only 12MB RAM- would loop in a HD caching maneuvre forever.
 
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Nack

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Depends on how you define "best". If you mean best "for its time", then the answer is DOS. Not even close.

Best recent OS that will run modern software and games, 98SE (clean install "for pcs without windows" version).

In my opinion:
DOS - Always worked, never crashed, simple to use, and very precisely written (the last Non-bloatware OS - hmm, wasn't this the one that BG sold to IBM, and then bought from some poor ba$tard for 50k? hehe).
Win 3.1(and 3.11) - slow, buggy, annoying, and overall non-user-friendly - at this point, the MAC version where it came from was probably better, but MS did a much better marketing job.
Win 95 - buggy, and no USB support, not even via a patch (well, not officially)
Win 95 OSR 2.1 - less buggy, and added USB Support (sort of - via a patch, but you have to buy the whole new OEM OS to get the patch - officially)
Win 98 - Good USB Support (with a whole bunch of new bugs)
Win 98SE - Bug Fix for Win 98 - reasonably stable (for a MS OS)
Win ME - rebadged recompiled version of the 9x kernel with a whole new set of bugs, and they took away my DOS window - pass

Nack
 
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Noriaki

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Depends alot what you are doing...

For it's time DOS rocked, I wish games still ran in DOS.

For a modern desktop OS Win98SE, I used to say Win95 OSR2.1 but it hates this computer, 98SE doesn't.

I also really like Linux and use it quite a bit it serves many of my needs very well, but it wouldn't make a very good public OS.
 
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troubledshooter

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For it's time: Mac OS 6. Hands down. Faster than Win 3.1, more visually pleasing and user friendly than DOS, and about as stable.

 
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Rand

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The best for it's time: DOS, hands down best no competition.
The best NOW: Windows 2000 Professional.
 
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Mem

Lifer
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DOS 6.22 this was great for games no BSOD or anything like that bring back DOS,forget Windows I want DOS 3000.

:)
 
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urbantechie

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I never really liked DOS. My all time favs were NT4 and Windows 2000 Advanced Server. But thats just me :)
 
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hans007

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i'll say DOS , CP/M (back in the day when you really couldn't screw up anything) , and windows 2000 pro. win 3.11 workgroups was pretty good for its time. The MAC OS still blows, OSX looks good, but it looks like everything will have to be recomiled since that is really just openbsd anyways. I've played with 3 or 4 linux distros and well its a good OS but there isn't that much software for it and using it is more a of a chore than it could be. I'd say corel linux is pretty good, but they got quite a ways to go to match to useablility of win2k pro
 
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Volitive

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BeOS 4 and on. Nothing else compared to it's speed, it's multimedia capabilities,
and it's intuitiveness. It's an amazing OS. What other OS features things like
high SMP useability (something like 87% efficiency per processor), super fast sound
and video (see that demo where each face of a cube had a avi running on it?), a
totally kick ass shell (you drop to a bash prompt!!!), the coolest superuser name
(baron! HAH! root, eat your heart out) ,and best of all, mega-performance.

Anyone remember the tradeshow when they had two copies of Quake 2 running on a
Pentium 233, with two video cards, two monitors, two keyboards, two mice, and had
people deathmatch? That's just cool.
 
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