OS

[Nameo0]

I have a VAIO FW series and I have tried three types of OS and they all worked. I was wondering which OS you guys like the most.

[R.C.]

Which Version of Windows, 7? Which Version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard? Or are we presuming the latest and greatest?

-RC

[Akash Rastogi]

hehehe

[Nameo0]

latest and greatest

[bobwrit]

(This thread opens up a can of worms, just to warn you)



My personal favorite is linux. I use my computer for it's power, and don't particularly care for user-frendlyness.

[buddyb]

I second Bob's comment about opening a can of worms.

Because you said you are using the 'latest and greatest', I suggest using Windows 7 if you want a very user-friendly environment, and Linux if you want a very finite level of control over your computer, and its applications.

I've not used a Mac for more than 20 minutes in my life, but I can tell you that I'd prefer Windows and Linux over Mac by far.

[MrForbes]

XP

"windows" and "latest and greatest" usually don't go together very well

[kgzak]

I prefer Mac OSX but I am looking at installing both Linux and Windows on virtual machines. First I need a bigger hard drive and more RAM.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by buddyb

I've not used a Mac for more than 20 minutes in my life, but I can tell you that I'd prefer Windows and Linux over Mac by far.

I'd have to ask anyone who doesn't have more than 20 minutes of experience with, well, anything to refrain from comparing it to products they have extensive experience with. You simply cannot adapt to a new operating system, or much of anything for that matter, in only 20 minutes, making any opinions created during that experience essentially invalid.

[MrForbes]

It's an opinion, how can it not be valid? Because it differs from your opinion?

I've used Mac OS for quite a bit more than 20 minutes, although in fairness I have to admit that it was Mac OS 1 thru 7 so it's not very fair to compare it to modern Windows computers.

I never did like CP/M, but I have a pretty good feel for MS-DOS.

Every now and then I drag an old Kaypro luggable out of the basement and play with CP/M, just to remind myself how bad it is

[basicxman]

Ubuntu Linux > Windows 7 > Mac OS X.6 > Vista > XP

I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop and desktop (desktop is virtualizing Win7).

Screenshots
http://tinypic.com/r/2ak0i9z/6
http://i49.tinypic.com/dq16io.jpg

Linux allows me to have a lot of flexibility over my system and frankly it's a saviour for programmers, built in Python/PHP and a majority of the GNU Compiler Collection. Ubuntu's gedit is a great programming editor IMO and it uses only a few MB of RAM on my system. Not to mention it's external tools plugin is awesome.

[Kage]

I like Mac OS 10.4.1
until about a month ago, I was running Mac OS 9.2
My internet browser was "Wamcom" which was a custom build of Mozilla 2 or something like that...I had ZERO javascript support, and it was slow as a snail...Not to mention it only had a 6GB hard drive.

Now I have Safari 4 with my OS 10.4
I am still running it on my G4 quicksilver, so not much about the speed has changed.
But overall It works much better, and I upgraded to 120GB of space!
The only downside is: I still only have 512 MB of ram

[Vermeulen]

I dual-boot XP and Ubuntu... Ubuntu works well for general stuff, and I use XP for CAD and gaming.

[Robototes2412]

Dude! use Ubuntu! it works with netbeans programming OOTB! anything you need is just an apt-get away!

I am currently using Win 7 pro 32 bit on my desktop/laptop and Win 7 pro 64 bit on the mobile laptop and only one problem so far and that is with one radio programming software from Butel.nl (the one for the 396/996XT series), it doesn't run properly on 64 bit and fails.

So far I have found win 7 to be as problem free as XP from back when.

Ideally learning all OS's and being fluent in them is a good idea, why not? you never know when you might need that knowledge let's say at work.

I'd like to learn Linux before Mac.

Originally Posted by basicxman

Ubuntu Linux > Windows 7 > Mac OS X.6 > Vista > XP

I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop and desktop (desktop is virtualizing Win7).

Screenshots
http://tinypic.com/r/2ak0i9z/6
http://i49.tinypic.com/dq16io.jpg

Linux allows me to have a lot of flexibility over my system and frankly it's a saviour for programmers, built in Python/PHP and a majority of the GNU Compiler Collection. Ubuntu's gedit is a great programming editor IMO and it uses only a few MB of RAM on my system. Not to mention it's external tools plugin is awesome.