Your favourite Operating system is???

debitcardmayhem

IBM VM/370 the original Virtual Machine, mind you I did think REXX was 30 years ahead of its time for an interpreted language, and IBM assembly language was my lingua franca, Ahhh they were the days except 327x terminals :rotfl::rotfl:
For the modern boys with toys it is Win 7

elvch01

ICL George III for me

esuhl

Wot no Solaris?

Windows 7 is pretty damn good, has should allow greater cofiguration so you can strip it down to the basics for better performance, and it has a few REALLY annoying bugs.

XP is a bit old and the 64-bit version was useless, but is otherwise the most reliable OS Microsoft have produced. Ubuntu is awful (although everyone else seems to like it), but Arch Linux is pretty damn cool, if a bit fiddly to tweak.

It's easy to try out a few OSes, and even easier/safer if you use something like VirtualBox to install them as a virtual machine inside your existing OS.

busenbust

Windows XP and Windows 7 and Snow Leopard

SpammyTheSpammer

Because it had MEMMAKER! And MultiBoot! And INTRSRVR / INTRCLNT

BRILLIANT

poppy_f1

i quite like win 7 at the moment however xp was great once all the service packs were installed

supermonkey

Only really into windows machines (having been an Amiga user years ago and taking ages to convert I now want to stick with the masses!).

I still think XP is excellent but of course times change and I've moved onto Windows 7. I think 7 is great - the change is not enough to make things difficult, but obviously after years of XP I'm not as proficient with 7 yet.

GunJack

XP for me, on 5 out of 6 machines in the house

...the other one is vista :mad:

would love to try 7, but don't have:-

a. spare funding, and
b. spare machine powerful enough

to try it on....if it wasn't for a. I'd replace vista on the lappy with 7

exup

GunJack wrote: »

XP for me, on 5 out of 6 machines in the house

...the other one is vista :mad:

would love to try 7, but don't have:-

a. spare funding, and
b. spare machine powerful enough

to try it on....if it wasn't for a. I'd replace vista on the lappy with 7

could get an OEM version of W7 ? if the laptop runs vista it should be ok with W7 as it is less resource hungry


Still havent got round to trying W7 yet so dont know - Not so keen on vista for the reason they changed things around that you got used to from 95,98,2000,Me and XP - Looking for a folder or or application and they changed the name . . .

Have used Ubuntu a little but not enough to really get down and funky with it.

Although I still liked the ZX81 operating system - now that never answered back with a "Windows has encountered a problem and needs to shut down because YOU SUCK", no it just quietly froze and nuked its program out of its memory.:D

Ahh 3D monster maze - The original FPS game :rotfl:

wallbash

Win 3.1 , such a leap after struggling with DOS.