Other Operating Systems or Shells?

[b12]

I've got XP, and it works for me. I've tried Linux and just left confused. OS X is nice, but can get troublesome sometimes. What are some other lesser known operating systems? Also, does anyone know about any nice shells? I'm a fan of LiteStep, it's tough to learn at first but can really beautify your computer. I want to check out some other, lesser known shells. I already know of BB4Win and the other BB's, those are nice but not really what i'm looking for.

[Ynot]

I've tried Linux and just left confused. Can you expand on that, just out of curiosity really How long ago was this? Which distro did you try? OS X is nice, but can get troublesome sometimes. Really? There's people on this forum (who shall remain nameless, Ninja) who will challenge you to a duel for saying that Again, can you expand What are some other lesser known operating systems? If you have problems with Linux & OSX, maybe non-Windows OS's aren't quite your thing but, here you go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems OS's of note: *BSD The BSD family of OS's are free, Unix-Like systems descended directly from the Berkeley Software Distribution of UNIX Very similar operation to Linux and shares some of the same user-land apps the *BSD's are famous for their security and stability BeOS Early 90's OS that was far ahead of it's time unfortunately, it never really took off but OS's to this day pull features and design concepts from BeOS Plan 9 Developed by Bell Labs (same people that developed UNIX) and billed as the successor to UNIX It's a distributed OS and in that respect, acts similarly to a Linux Beowulf cluster

[ninja9578]

Really? There's people on this forum (who shall remain nameless, Ninja) who will challenge you to a duel for saying that There is another ninja on this forum? I also would like elaboration, both OSX and Ubuntu are designed specifically to be user friendly. Is that not the Linux distro that you used? Some are older operating systems don't have the functionality of OSX, Linux, or XP, but they are more stable. Windows 3.1 OS/2 NeXtStep (not sure if it will run on a non-NeXt computer) DOS I love DOS and Win 3.1. I still use both, the only MS OS's that I use. I know that you can find a DOS clone on the net, I'm not sure of the others.

[Ynot]

I know that you can find a DOS clone on the net, I'm not sure of the others. DosBox Great for running those old DOS games on XP / Linux

[Identity X]

DosBox Great for running those old DOS games on XP / Linux I think he meant FreeDOS, which is a standalone OS.

[Grod]

VISTAReally.