Best operating system you ever used

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Well, it used to be OS/2 but then a neat OS called S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0 came into my life and in version 7.0 surely qualified. I mean: it did not need special drivers (like windows at that time) or week long configuration-marathons (like S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0) to display graphics. That amazed me! I also like Linux in general.

The one I'm using now: Windows XP, with SP3. Some flavours of Linux are kind of nice, and I've even found some nice touches in Vista (nothing to do with the interface, though), but overall, I don't think I'll be switching from XP any soon.

I'd say Solaris. It's on my secondary pc - a Gateway I picked up at my town dump. What made me wonder is why someone would throw away a perfectly good PC with Vista on it. The only problem with it was that it needed a new power supply. I'm also thinking about getting a Sun computer as my next PC.

^I've considered trying Solaris. How has your experience been with it?

It was great. It seems to handle java based programs like openoffice better, on windows it's a resource hog. I use StarOffice as a suite, though. I think it's a great OS.

Little surprise, that Solaris (by Sun Microsystems) would run software made by Sun Microsystems really well. Just wondering if it would be worth it, when I get some spare time, to throw a Solaris partition in there.

AmigaOS up to version 3.5.

I loved Windows 2k prof. Never crashed and you could really push it to the limits. Ah, I remember it well.

Yup Mac OS X here too although Win XP SP2 comes a close second.

the tiger osx

Personally I prefered AIX than solaris when I was CAD monkeying. It was the best thing to run Catia on at the time. Now if only I could try a SG box runnign IRIX or SUSE.

I'm too familiar with computers that don't have OS,
and find OS programming unbearably tedious (like typesetting Gutenburg's bible).

I'm currently using a PC with a small linux and no hard drive for internet access only.

I don't remember ever buying software. I wrote a lot of it though.
Half of it is OS-less and the other half is for DOS.

See what can be done with 1K RAM and no OS

(That's not me though.)

The best operating systems I've ever used are (in order of preference):
Windows XP Professional (Home Edition sucks and is low in security)
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation+Server
Windows 2000 Professional
OS/2 Warp Server Advanced 4 (actually should be "OS/2 Warp Server Advanced 3.0", but the packet says 4 for some reason, but it is better than Warp Connect [haven't tried it yet] because you can install Fixpak 43 on it whereas you can only install Fixpak 40 on Warp Connect)
RedHat Linux 7.2

I wish I had OS/2 Warp 4.52! Maybe I should get eComStation (I like the "OS/2 Warp" name better!)

And since they all have their own little flaws, I'm developing my own OS.

NOTE: I am currently using Windows NT Workstation 4.0, and my laptop uses Windows XP Professional.

I have an IBM computer with OS/2 Warp 4.52 that I got when 4.52 was new. Still got the software/restore CD's and documentation too. I'll power it up once in a while and play with it. There's a demo CD available for eComStation (http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/). I have it and it's pretty good. It only runs on LiveCD though.

All depends on what I'm doing and what hardware

But

for X86:

Multimedia/Video editing: Mac OS X/ Darwin

General Purpose: GNU Slackware Linux/ "OS/2 WARP 4.52"

Beginners (for those who just want something that works): GNU Ubuntu Linux/ Derivatives

Beginners (to learn something): FreeDOS or Debian(what I learned Unix on)

Server OS: FreeBSD/OpenBSD

Gaming OS: Windows 2000 (purely due to support, though Wine has very high compatability if tuned)

Programmers: GNU Slackware Linux/ CentOS Linux


for PPC:

Anything: Mac OSX/ Debian Linux


for Sparc:

Solaris (nuff said)


laters

Windows XP for gaming
Ubuntu 9.04 (Gnome) for everything else.