POLL: Whats your favourite OS.. any why?

[halik]

If you have only used one OS, pick the appropriate selection. Having Loaded linux on your machine for 2 days DOESNT COUNT. NEITHER DOES USING A MAC AT COMPUSA...

... If you work with more than one OS on daily basis, pick what you prefer. Otherwise PICK I ONLY USE ONE OS

Im trying to keep the bias from the poll. Most of the people that frequent this forum wouldnt know how to add their account to an unlocked UNIX BOX.




Alright I always wondered what os people prefer.
Keep in mind that if you only have experience in one OS (chances are windows), you aren't really qualified to vote because you have no experience basis to make such decision. Oh yeah playing with macs at compusa / Lindows in wallmart doesnt qualify as experience...



EDIT:
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?

 

[halik]

^ thread dropped before i finished the poll

 

[guapo337]

i've used 95/98se/XP, Mandrake, and OSX. I like OSX best. It's purty, easy to use, stable..

 

[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.

 

[pennylane]

I've used Windows 98 SE and Windows XP, but I'm not gonna anoint windows XP as my favorite OS...

 

[conjur]

Uhhhh...

From the topic:
PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE OS EXPERIENCE ONLY

From the poll:
I've only used one OS

 

[pennylane]

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.

Aww come on. Give people more credit than that.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: guapo337
I like OSX best. It's purty, easy to use, stable..

The same could be said for just about any OS as long as you know how to configure it properly.

 

[geckojohn]

Free BSD is pretty cool. But windows pwns j00.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: conjur
Uhhhh...

From the topic:
PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE OS EXPERIENCE ONLY

From the poll:
I've only used one OS

It allows everyone to answer the poll. It's not like he can actually keep people with experience with only 1 OS out of the thread.

 

[filmmaker]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: guapo337
I like OSX best. It's purty, easy to use, stable..

The same could be said for just about any OS as long as you know how to configure it properly.

Agreed

 

[nicowju]

winxp or win2003. Gentoo is fun to tinker around with; so is Debian/Knoppix. And most other linux distros for that matter

 

[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)

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: conjur
Uhhhh...

From the topic:
PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE OS EXPERIENCE ONLY

From the poll:
I've only used one OS

It allows everyone to answer the poll. It's not like he can actually keep people with experience with only 1 OS out of the thread.

Then it should be:

"Damn you and your multiple OS experience only! You can't stop me from voting! MUA HA HA HA HA HA"

Or something....

 

[MaxDepth]

You forgot to add CP/M.

Me and my Commodore, we ruled the world once ago.

 

[waylman]

this poll is messed up b/c I've used win NT/95/98/ME/2000/XP which are all diff't operating systems, but there is only a "windows" option which is far too vague. Perhaps, you should say what is your favorite "platform"

 

[newbiepcuser]

Work/Experienced not a guru


Windows 3.11, NT 4.0, 9.X, ME, 2k, XP pro
older verisons of Solaris, HP Unix,
Red Hat 6.X, older verisons of FreeBSD
MAC 8.1 to 9.X


Windows, cause it works for me.

 

[Ranger X]

MS-DOS

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: waylman
this poll is messed up b/c I've used win NT/95/98/ME/2000/XP which are all diff't operating systems, but there is only a "windows" option which is far too vague. Perhaps, you should say what is your favorite "platform"

Windows is pretty much the same across the board. From used stand point of view it lets you do the same stuff. The difference is what runs in the background (16 vs 32 bit kernel).

 

[LAUST]

Windows 2K/XP

I like the mainstream in the PC world.. hate not having good support.

 

[UNCjigga]

Windows 9x != Windows 2k/XP...this is the second OS poll where someone put those together :disgust:

 

[dullard]

I don't care what OS I use as long as the majority of people use it so that all the software and hardware works right out of the box.

I use Windows and Unix frequently at work and occasionally some Mac OS. A roommate of mine ran all Linux boxes. So yes I have lots of experience with it. Yet I still voted Windows. Why? With the Unix boxes all I see is incompatable software - and hardware that we have to wait 6 months to get a driver written (and usually the driver is buggy). Yes the Linux boxes are ~5% faster than an equivalent Windows box. But I'm not giving up all that for 5% speed boost.

If everyone switched to another OS, I'd switch right along with them (but after waiting for the software and hardware to catch up). Then of course the bugs and viruses will become prevalent in the next OS, so we are back to the beginning...

 

[Dragon365]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Windows 9x != Windows 2k/XP...this is the second OS poll where someone put those together :disgust:

Agreed, the two need to be seperated. Win2k/XP>Win9x.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Dragon365

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Windows 9x != Windows 2k/XP...this is the second OS poll where someone put those together :disgust:

Agreed, the two need to be seperated. Win2k/XP>Win9x.

damn it just vote windows

i dont wanan have people going hmm ive used windows 98 and then xp. I have multiple os experience and i like xp more than 98

 

[neutralizer]

Win2k/XP pawns Win9x. 2k and XP deserve to be separated from Win9x.