what os?

hey what os does every one use? and for what reason
just a general question cause im bored

Win2k, cause it's what I know. I've been trying to teach myself linux for awhile now though.

I didnt vote because I am trying to learn the good and bad of:

Windows 98se
Mandrake Linux 8.1
L.O.A.F linux
BeOS 5.0 personal edition
Winlinux 2000

These operating systems are all on my computer and the good and bad ones are at least learning experiences. Mandrake proves to be the most satisfying experience while 98se remains as the one needed the most. Winlinux is pure junk with very little that works right. BeOS is pretty interesting. LOAF is very small and functional. One day I might be able to afford and try mac OS 10.0 and XP. By the way I might seem to be biased towards windows and microsoft in my other posts, but what can you say about someone with three versions of linux on one computer.

linux ... no blue screen of death

Linux preferably...

But i also use Win XP
Win 2k
Win 98
[and Win NT 4 sometimes]

I enjoy Linux but Windows is still in me.
I voted Linux anyway, it is a better OS than Windows in my eyes.

I use FreeBSD. I used to use Linux and liked it a lot, but then I tried FreeBSD and saw that it can do anyhting Linux can do and a little bit more. Only thing missing from FreeBSD in my opinion is game support, but I keep a Slackware linux box around for playing Quake and UT. :D

i use win xp and 2k....i'm learning linux in school right now and it seems alright...who knows i might switch.

win98se. i've experimented with various linuxes for about 4 years now (rh, debian, caldera, & mini-dists). my complaints at the beginning were difficulty of function, but now i realize it was more my lack of experience on them than the oses fault. definite learning curve!

or maybe i just like oses ;^D

still, next box is debian- i think i like that best of all the linuxes, primarily 'cuz of the political stance, yes.... then the capbilities, which are awesome.

Um, Wish there had been one more category,

Single OS??? You want me to pick one?

For my personal use, and for many tasks at work, I use *nix. However, some tasks at work require that I run Windows 2000, i.e. administering active directory.

I have just downloaded the trial version of VMware workstation though, so I can install win2k on my linux machine, and not have to reboot to switch OS. So, I guess you could say that now, I use linux at work all the time. Well, I will as soon as I convince my boss to let me buy VmWare.

At home I use linux for everything, except for one game that I am playing. That game is not available for linux, so, I have to run windows.

I personally use Win2k and Mandrake Linux 8.1 on my desktop, but I only use Win2k on my laptop, why ? Because...linux doesn't work fine with my laptop !

I am using a Twinhead laptop, Linux can't detect the Ir port, and there's some problems with the display.

If anyone out there have the solution for my laptop, please tell me, I want to use Linux...

Well, I gotta admit that Windows is easy...


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I will stand behind *inx any ole day but i must confess much no mydissmay we do live in a "windows world"

I stick to BeOS, with *NiX at its tail. And there are several new OSes out there which I'd love to test, I already took a look at QNX and it was pretty much ok, AtheOS gets goods points from what I saw, still need to check out PetrOS. All those seem to have great potential, and just because not everybody uses them does that mean that they're no good.

PS: how come noone mentioned OS/2 yet?

Win 98 on one machine, Win 2K on another, and am building a machine now to install Mandrake 8.1 on.

Every box on my network runs one form of debian or another, from slink to sid. I dual boot w2k as well - is that a problem hehbris?

I dual boot both XP Pro and Debian on all the boxes on my network. Except my proxy server, which runs either Win2k server or NT 4.0 ...as for my favorite OS, I enjoy using RedHat. Unfortunately the only distro of Red I have right now is an old 4.x copy :(

here was another post that asked the same question

having used many different OS's over the years... i have come to the conclusion that the Commodore 64 OS is without a doubt the simplest and easiest OS to use

sure its a little slow and a little unconventional in todays technological society but who can give me an example of an OS relient on only one code

load "*" ,8,1

this one will do it all baby

I run Windows 2000 Advanced Server..
I've kept with it for quite a while, and found it very nice, once patched *it wasn't very nice unpatched*

Now that my studies have finished, I'm gonna start trying to learn Linux... already got me a book to read while I'm on holidays...

Windows 98 SE
Red Hat Linux 7.2
Windows XP

i have
Win 98SE
Win ME
Win 2000 Prof.
Win 2000 Server
Win NT 4
Win NT 4 Server
Mandrake 6.1
Red hat 7.1

So far I like them all except recently i want to kill the ME machine

mac always the under dog but with the release of osx with a unix kernal i think it has the chance to go far
although the lack of security pages for macs i still belive it is the most stable and user friendely os after of course *nix machines