POLL: Whats your favourite OS.. any why?

[Ynog]

Originally posted by: halik
Feel free to post your reason why ... especially if you pick windows. Everyone i know thats fluent in UNIX wouldnt pick Widnows as their first choice... how come Windows is winning here?

Do you actually think people who only use Windows or the people that actually have played with linux once for a short amount of time are really going to
listen and not click Windows. They aren't going to choose the I've only used one OS.

As for my favorite OS. Its a toss up.
I regularly use (or used), Linux, Windows, Irix, Solaris, nX based on a Unix 4.3 BSD, PSOS, VxWorks, and a few custom ones (but I will leave them out).

I would have to say my favorite would be Linux. Its easy to install. Kernel rebuilds are easy. Open source doesn't hurt.
I don't care for customizing the look of it. Feel of a unix machine. Since its linux, its cheaper thus allows for money to be
spent on better hardware to use under linux (SGI boxes stick around cause they aren't cheap to get a new one).
Large knowledge base for problems. Many other reasons too. Easy to used as just a development station. Run code eslewhere.

Close second is VxWorks. While a pain in the ass at times, really doesn't let me down. When needed it provides a good
RTOS.

Thoughts on the others.

Now I'll leave Windows out, because though I enjoy playing games and doing documentation on that Box, its not my
favorite by far.

I have used HP-UX never enjoyed the experience, probably hardware related. Never had a good day on those boxes.
Solaris isn't bad, but the window manager always seemed clunky. Though I always like the Cut Copy and Paste buttons.


SGI are nice especially when using GL. That and I have a nice 64 Processor Origin and some mini Origins to work with.
Tends to make working with Irix alot more fun. Though one problem I always hated with Irix, and its not really its fault, but
SGI are expensive so you tend to have old SGI workstations running old versions of Irix that cannot be upgraded. When dealing
with large project trees, one rogue o32 object (when everything else is n32) can really screw up a build.


The old nX and Psos systems were very slow and old but very forgiving. When porting code from these systems found other
people's memory bugs. But these bugs were forgivin on these systems because of large pages of memory. Though the code
was poorly written at the time (actually small bug with structure change) the systems didn't step on memory as easy. Which
when things would core dump, you didn't always completely trash the stack.

 

[secretanchitman]

Windows XP Professional. Why? good support for games, and I like hacking/tweaking it.

 

[DurocShark]

What The Fungus!?!?!?!

Windows 9x/2k/xp are 3 way different os's. 2k (for me at least) is much more stable and flexible than XP. And the 9x's...

 

[DaiShan]

I've been trying to learn linux when I have time, I can see where it would be more stable/powerful or whatever, especially when not running a GUI, but the installs are a lot tougher, even when following the directions, it seems like sometimes that in order to learn linux you have to know linux. I was having a major problem getting kismet to work in slack 9 on my laptop with my aironet350, kept getting errors about missing files, finally I was telling a war driving friend of mine about this on irc and he said he could set it up, so I made him an account and opened up 22 on my firewall, and he got it installed and set up, the only thing is it still doesn't work right, and he doesn't even use windows, only linux. There are also a lot better war driving tools for linux than for windows, kismet goes in depth on the network, netstumbler just says its there. I prefer server 2003 it is very stable (20-30 days uptime on average, mostly I only shut it down for maintenance, but I occasionally have to shut it down for errors) and I like the memory management in it, it seems to do a much better job than 2k advanced server did on the same machine, that coupled with the ease of installation of most programs is why I choose server 2003 over linux.

 

[Priit]

I chose linux. As for MS OS'es popularity, I would quote Frank Zappa - "Millions of flies cannot be wrong, sh*t must be good"

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Why did you group Windows 98 with Windows 2000 with Windows XP!? That's like saying "Do you prefer Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, or linux?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: chin311

Originally posted by: notfred
Everyone is going to say they have multiple OS experience cause they had a half-working linux install for 1 day before they went back to windows, or they used thier brother's friend's moms 233mhz iMac once.

lol, but im teh MASTER OF LINUX!!!1

anyway, yeah ive used all versions of windows, multiple linux distros (mandrake, redhat, slackware, etc), some older apple OS's, not sure OS 9 maybe?, hardly played with OSX yet, but hopefully soon (wanna powerb00k)

Really? You've used Windows 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 before using 3.1x?

 

[BatmanNate]

Probably Windows 2000 Pro, it was a good balance between configurability, stability, and ease of use. I use XP Pro on my workstation at home, NT 4 on my workstation here, and my server at home runs 2k Pro AS. The server it replaced ran SME linux 5 for quite some time, and I would have liked that on the new one as it was very simple, configurable, and convienient however it did not support the hardware.