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[TheCourtJester]

A discussion about it was started in another thread...figured it ought to have a thread of it's own

Which one do you use? Apparently there are fewer people running Windoze that I would have thought...

Any pros/cons with that OS? Advice for other users?

I had a Debian build running on my old machine (Linux...w00t) ...unfortunately I can't run squat on a Linux machine. The windows emulators (like Wine or windowsmaker) take up too much of the system resources ... almost as much as running TWO operating systems plus the programs ... it slowed it down too much to justify it, at least in my opinion. Just don't have that kind of expertise or patience...I'm doing a lot of video editing and the like...I need to spend it getting the stuff DONE instead of trying to get a program to run stable...

Windows XP Home is just a glorified Win 98. I couldn't stand it...

BUT I have XP Pro on my new system (one I built for part of Senior Project...) and it's running MUCH better

I'll be sticking with XP Pro for a while.

[bishmasterb]

Let the OS flame wars begin!

I'm still trying to decide between IBM Topview and Quarterdeck's Desqview.

[Bolt]

Windows 2000 pro here.

[DougP]

Which one do you use? Apparently there are fewer people running Windoze that I would have thought...

Well, on all of my "serious" systems I run FreeBSD. As far as I'm concerned it's the best choice for a free UNIX. That's mostly due to the tight control the FreeBSD foundation establishes on both the consistency of the whole system and the documentation. (As compared to the many different distributions of Linux that are all slightly different) I run it on both my main systems at home and the office.

On the laptop that I wander around the house with, and the one I use for email at the office, it's Windows XP pro. That's mainly due to its better support for mobile computers.

But only a daily basis I use Windows XP, FreeBSD, and Fedora Core Linux.


Of course, if this were truly a flame-war, we'd be debating the merits of OS/2 and AmigaOS!

[zach5]

lets see here... FreeBsd, openBsd, Debian, redhat, Win2k, WinXP, Win2k3 server, win98

[zach5]

Well lets see here....
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
Debian
Red Hat
Win2k pro
WinXP pro
Win98
Mac OSX
*thinks*

[CoachWeise]

It depends on the application...

My desktops run Win XP Pro...

My servers I run linux... Currently RedHat 7.2, only because I've had no reason to update the box.

When I need to do some quick linux on a non-server box (e.g., I upgraded my TiVo hard drive and backed up all my pre-existing shows, etc) I run Knoppix, a CD bootable version of linux.

Coach Weise.

[Merlin]

well, i've only ran on Windows at home, but in elementary school, we had Mac, very long horror story.

anyways...

in order from first computer to most current...

Win95
Win98
WinME(horror story of its own)
Win2k
WinXP HE(best so far)

[CoachWeise]

in order from first computer to most current...

Haha... Okay, first computer to most current:

Commodore 64 built-in OS
Commodore 128 built-in OS (and occassionally CP/M)
Dos 4.5 (or something --- can't remember exact rev #'s)...
Dos 6.7
Win 3.1
Win 3.11 (for Workgroups)
Win 95
Win 98
Win 98SE
Win XP Pro

At the same time I was running Win 3.11 I was also running Linux Slackware (back in '93 or something like that)... I continued with Slackware for a while and then took a hiatus on linux until a couple of years ago and then I went with ReHat 6.something and more recently RedHat 7.2 with some Knoppix mixed in there...

Also played with various apple OS's but never owned the machines (from the IIE up to OS X)...

Coach Weise.

[Cloud9]

BeOS, Linux, Win XP, MSDOS, PCDOS, Unix, OS X, VM, MVS....