What is your favorite OS and why ?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by ActiveFrost, Jan 22, 2009.

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What is your favorite OS ?

  1. Windows XP

    48 vote(s)
    70.6%

  2. Windows 2000

    2 vote(s)
    2.9%

  3. Mac OS X

    7 vote(s)
    10.3%

  4. Linux

    11 vote(s)
    16.2%
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  1. tloosle

    tloosle Active Member

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    #21
    favorite?

    why choose only one. I use them all! nix and windows server, vista, and xp. Also have a MAC, but I have to lose 50 iq points everytime I use it.

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    Till now it is windows xp but just recently got to use the vista but not loving it, .. hence i prefer windows xp as my favorite os.
     
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  3. ActiveFrost

    ActiveFrost Notable Member

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    #23
    Till now : 90.48% for XP .. Sounds interesting ! Hope to see more votes .. :cool:
     
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    Proximity Banned

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    #24
    Windows XP is the best of them all, although Vista is not bad at all for me its pretty stable
     
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  5. Cian

    Cian Guest

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    I'm most used to XP but with a bit of practice I think Windows 7 could/will be my fave.
     
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  6. Bali_Sunset

    Bali_Sunset Well-Known Member

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    #26
    windows XP SP2

    it's very stable....in my case, never crash in the past 6 months...although I have opened tons of softwares
     
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    dipal76 Well-Known Member

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    #27
    Windows XP is best for me.
    I used it since last two years without any type of problems.
     
    dipal76, Jan 22, 2009 IP
  8. bryan_tong

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    #28
    I was suprised to see so few linux votes in a place like this. I voted windows XP. I like vista but there is just something about XP that is quicker. We use it on all our office computers. It helps for everyone to have the same OS cuts down on pondering wtf is wrong. Hehe.

    I was also suprised not to see Vista and not to see linux flavors. Usually the linux users are very particular about their flavor of the os.
     
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    Mine is XP. I prefer it over Vista. Vista has just a better GUI, but when it comes to functionality, XP is definitely great.
     
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    #30
    XP is better for me , I like something to do new dude.
     
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  11. ilikenwf

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    #31
    Archlinux for the win. It's so fast (and generally better than ubunturd...though it's good for n00bs)...I'm a minimalist, and a ricer. I use the Zen kernel with everything unnecessary stripped out, and everything necessary built in...and am using the experimental btrfs filesystem, which is very fast. I have compression enabled as well.

    This is all on a laptop with dual cores at 3.2 ghz, 2gb ram, two drive bays (one has a solidstate 32gb with only 7% usage because of btrfs. the other is an ext3 formatted 120gb mechanical drive). This thing is faster than it's ever been and my kernel is only 800k uncompressed. Windows vista/xp have 60+mb kernels. These are loaded into the memory...and I have tons of free memory.

    Linux is highly superior to any other OS, though OSX and BSD come in a VERY close second. I do have a windows box, since games and other things are easier to deal with out of the box on.
     
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  12. ActiveFrost

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    Never heard about it :eek: Definitely will check their page .. Sounds to be a good stuff for me !
     
    ActiveFrost, Jan 22, 2009 IP
  13. ilikenwf

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    If you understand linux or can follow their wiki install guide, it's a really great distro.
     
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    ActiveFrost Notable Member

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    No problems with *nix systems .. :) Will try it tomorrow !
     
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    And if you like kde, look into kdemod...it pwns vanilla kde.
     
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    #36
    ubuntu > all

    but I use XP as well I think it is one of the best in the Microsoft OS series..
     
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    #37
    XP its easy to run and operate just about anything with it.
     
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    I'd have to disagree with you on ubuntu. It's bloated, slow (compared to arch or gentoo), and not as versatile as gentoo or arch...to each their own...

    XP is the best of the windoze family.
     
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    Linux because I like adding code to it.
     
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  20. justinlorder

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    Xp is first choice .
    I also vote linux if I have two choices .
     
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