Thread: What's Your Current OS

Originally Posted by MSG

Blah blah blah Vista, blah blah blah Linux...

I might actually be getting a MacBook when Leopard comes out - Yes I know heaven help me but Apple seems to be the only company who really 'gets it' when it comes to building laptops.

MSG is getting a FisherPrice. How sweet

Originally Posted by Marvo

MSG is getting a FisherPrice. How sweet

lol, So true. The only thing good about Mac is the bouncing icons. For everything else, Vista is better.

For everything else, Vista is better.

Except viruses

Food Fight!

Food Fight!

More like Fool fight.

PS- update on that earlier issue I posted: Turns out all I had to do was hit this little button on the motherboard and all is fixed. They call it the Power Management button... I call it Apple's version of the "Easy Button". (God damn engineering geniuses).

Ynot, if you are going to include GNU/Linux in the poll, you might as well include other popular FLOSS operating systems to get more meaningful results. I would add Solaris (especially now that Java is GPL'ed) and FreeBSD to the list of options. Currently I use a mix of Mac OS X, Arch Linux, and FreeBSD. At school I use Windows XP Professional.

Originally Posted by dsr

Ynot, if you are going to include GNU/Linux in the poll, you might as well include other popular FLOSS operating systems to get more meaningful results. I would add Solaris (especially now that Java is GPL'ed) and FreeBSD to the list of options. Currently I use a mix of Mac OS X, Arch Linux, and FreeBSD. At school I use Windows XP Professional.

I very much doubt anyone's running sun solaris on their desktops

this isn't slash
as far as most people are concerned, there's 3 OS's
MS, Mac & Linux

let's not over burden them

Triple boot Vista, XP and Linux... my Linux is broken though, and I can't bother fixing it.

XP. I'm waiting until they fix all the bugs in Vista. I set up my father in law's computer that came with Vista. I like it, but had to install XP because the program he needed it for isn't supported by Vista yet. I do like Vista though.

Currently booting XP Pro for gaming and uTorrent. I get double the frame rates in XP vs Vista--but then, I've got 64 MB integrated graphics....

Anyway, also booting Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu Gibbon Alpha 1, Fedora 7 and Slackware 11 on my three PC's.

Overall, I prefer Linux to Windows, just because I've been messing with some bizarre hardware setups that Windows tends to balk at. Going to start a Beowulf cluster soon, my mom's school's selling off their computers soon. Two or three year old boxes, but they're going for $25 per tower (Pentium 4's, ~2.0 Ghz, 512 MB RAM), $10 per monitor (17" CRTs and a few 15" and 17" LCDs) and $5 for a keyboard/mouse. Needless to say, I'm not passing up an opportunity that good. They're battered, but fully operable.

Originally Posted by Raven12

XP. I'm waiting until they fix all the bugs in Vista. I set up my father in law's computer that came with Vista. I like it, but had to install XP because the program he needed it for isn't supported by Vista yet. I do like Vista though.

Vista wont support the program, the program would require a driver/update depending on what it is

off topic but am i the only one missing the good ol DOS?

Vista has a circle instead of the start button

Windows XP Professional Corporate with SP2 built in. No activation required and all Windows Updates work fine, including any authentication things.

Originally Posted by Pyrofan1

Except viruses

1. Vista has MUCH better secuity, and free antivirus will do.
2. Don't be stupid! Going to freestuff.com or torrenting stuff is not a good idea.

Originally Posted by webmaster

Vista has MUCH better secuity

Is this security through obscurity?

Originally Posted by Ynot

Is this security through obscurity?

The "best" feature of Vista's secuity is the god-awful UAC. It makes sure you can't do anything important, so malware can't either. I turned it off...

Originally Posted by Beef Jerky

Triple boot Vista, XP and Linux... my Linux is broken though, and I can't bother fixing it.

I have 3 partitions, one C: for Windows XP MCE, one V: for Vista Home Premium, and Q: for my files.

Why do you want Linux? If you have XP/Vista?

Originally Posted by webmaster

Why do you want Linux? If you have XP/Vista?

maybe he likes it

I have a microwave, gas oven and BBQ

Originally Posted by webmaster

Why do you want Linux? If you have XP/Vista?

Maybe because it's better? It's faster, more secure, more stable, more flexible, more powerful (especially when using the command-line), and all the software is free (usually both libre and gratis). Oh yeah, one more thing: Windows can get viruses (not to mention spyware and all those other nasty goodies). Imagine a piece of technology getting sick. UNIX-like OS's are much better for regular computer usage IMO (and in that of almost anyone who has used a good distro and bothered to learn how it really works). The only real positive thing I can say about Windows is that it runs far more FPS games and MMORPGs than FLOSS OS's like GNU/Linux. Of course, you can always use Wine and WineX (the free source code version of Cedega) to play those few games that "only run on Windows."