Favorite OS's

[JACKDRUID]

Windows 2000 pro. stability at min hardware requirement.

 

[tommo123]

the amiga OS on my old 500+

never crashed and was very responsive

 

[postmortemIA]

Windows 2000 - stability, response, plays nice with hardware, clean design, what else is to wish for?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Windows Home Server. Absolutely wonderful for what it is supposed to do. I don't mind Vista at all, but WHS just plain impressed me.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Brazen
So is your preference to directly edit the bits on the harddrive?

Hard drive? Who needs those? Paper tape all the way!

Anybody else ever program a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP/8?

Here's a video of toggling bits on a PDP8.
This is a later model. The ones I used were a lot less sophistocated.
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The "best OS" that I've ever used wasn't quite an OS:

DESQview, which was a text-based multitasking OS running on top of MS-DOS.

 

[sourceninja]

My favorite desktop OS: OSX 10.5
My favorite server OS: ubuntu/debian linux

 

[Chapbass]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Windows Home Server. Absolutely wonderful for what it is supposed to do. I don't mind Vista at all, but WHS just plain impressed me.

You know, I'd really agree with that. I was using a 2x500gb setup on a WHS box all of last year. Never had any data corruption or anything....until one of the hard drives completely failed.


The upside is...the other drive had all of the data (because of WHS's pseudo-raid), but no OS. So I installed Vista 64 on top of it (without formatting)...and now I have my OS and data drive for the new desktop i just built!


Time to get some new HDD's for the server though

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Windows 2000 is my favorite. OpenSUSE 11.1 will likely be a good one as well (11 does not work properly with my hardware)...

Yep! Me too...

I still run several W2K Pro machines, patched and mod'ed.

I have high expectations for OpenSUSE 11.1 as well. It will probably replace Vista SP1 on my lappy.

I still have a proxy server running Win98SE, and a Slackware web server...

 

[FalseChristian]

Windows 95 OSR2B was as stable and unbloated as a Jehovah's Witness preaching in a Strip Club. Windows XP is the best all-around OS so their is no need for Vista.

 

[zmaster]

i know people are gonna give me hell, but ME. I know it had its bugs back in the day, but it will allways hold a place in my heart because it was the system i learned how to troubleshoot on.

present day. xpsp3 and tiger both seem really good.

 

[TheStu]

For day to day use, OS X 10.5 Leopard.
For my gaming system I use XP Pro and I like it rather a lot. It is stable for me, gets the job done, and has easy to use (at least for me) file sharing features that so I can access the files on my laptop.

 

[krypto1300]

1. MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 running Central Point PC Tools for Windows on top of MS DOS 6.22

2. MS Extended Color Basic

3. MS Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1

4. MS Windows XP Pro SP2

5. IBM OS2 Warp version 3 and 4

 

[bigi]

2K. Still going strong. Big OS that takes very little resources.

 

[HannibalX]

2k is a great OS for sure. For a pure workstation environment it's perfect.

I think many Linux distributions aspire to be what 2k is.

 

[ChrisScar]

I love and hate Vista...wish it had better power management and compatibility: pretty much my only problem with it. Worst WindowsME

 

[CSMR]

Favourite OSes:
1. RISC OS (Used mainly RISC OS 3, 3.5):
Fast to boot (from ROM) and run, much more efficient in speed and memory use than Windows, looked great (font anti-aliasing, GUI ahead of its time), everything logically structured, nice to program. Was mostly used in UK, never made an impact in the US.
2. XP. The point at which Windows moved out of beta. (At least the consumer line of Windows.) Stable, efficient, compatible, and looked good too.

I use Vista (64) at the moment. Pretty good, the best yet, but not a great OS.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

The moves have been getting better and better, starting with Win 2K -> XP -> Vista x64

 

[Genx87]

I liked out of the box and used for quite awhile.

Win98 SE
Win2000
Vista

 

[taltamir]

My all time favorite OS was Norton Commander...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...ton_Commander_5.51.png

 

[themisfit610]

As far as "holy shit" improvements go - switching to 2k from 98se on my K6-2 350 was absolutely amazing.

Actually the single best moment in my computing history _ever_ was installing a Voodoo3 2000 PCI into that same machine (while under 98se), fighting to disable the onboard Rage PRO LT, and firing up Quake 3, Rogue Squadron, and Carmageddon 2 for the first time, and having silky OpenGL / GLIDE. That was amazingly cool.

As far as favorite OS's go, DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11 were my real halcyon days. I remember loading up boot disks to get Strike Commander and Wing Commander 2 running perfectly. TiE Fighter in DOS was probably the best thing ever.

I really liked my Macintosh IIvx, which had an integrated caddy-load CD-ROM drive. I got online for the first time with this machine, and did so until 1999 With System 7.5, it was a fantastic machine!!

Nowadays Vista 64 is the only OS for me. It's fast as shite, despite being massively bloated and having a few UI oddities (why can't I just have ALL explorer windows open in detail view, with the same attributes that XP displays? I don't care about star rating, and other media related metadata). It's also very good at managing video memory, and providing 3d acceleration to Adobe Lightroom, which XP cannot do!

~MiSfit

 

[T101]

Kickstart/Workbench 3.0 (came with the hardware, and multitasking when the MS OSes and even OS/2 struggled with formatting a floppy and running an application at the same time), BeOS (it simply rocks! waiting for Haiku, but think it is too late for it), Windows XP was really the first windows version that I feel was stable and which I had very few problems with. Vista x64 is nice, but the security features that prevent me from doing what I want (and the annoying work arounds I have to use to disable them, like driver certification) prevents it from being a great OS.

 

[gpse]

I was using Vista since release but decided to try Ubuntu, it's been about a month and I love it. The only thing keeping me with Vista was gaming, but ever since I got PS3 I haven't gamed in Vista.

 

[Heretik]

GEOS - Kicked the crap out of having to do all that typing....

Workbench 1.3 - Was the first WB to allow autoboot from device OTHER than the floppy and was the most stable/compatible with all the (then) curent games.

Windows XP - It's still enjoying a pretty good run...