What OS do you use?

[kablizzo]

What operating system do you use? Do you like it or wish you used something else?

[Snootch]

Dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu (Linux). I prefer Ubuntu, but end up mostly using XP.

[flyingimam]

XP sp2

best microsoft has offered so far.. vista is just a fancy and a lil less incompatible version of xp imo

yes, i wish i possessed the knowledge to use a unix os on my system, thats d0pe!

[kablizzo]

I use linux. Ubuntu on my laptop with a cool weed leaf splash screen and theme. Suse on my desktop w/ windows as dual boot but I hardly ever touch windows.

[Snootch]

yes, i wish i possessed the knowledge to use a unix os on my system, thats d0pe!

*nix is easy. Ubuntu (and most other distributions) is cool because you can use a "Live CD" to try it out. You just download the image, burn it onto a CD and it makes it bootable, so you can try out the OS without making any permanent changes to your system.

Which reminds me, I need to try out the OpenSolaris Live CD sometime ...

[flyingimam]

*nix is easy. Ubuntu (and most other distributions) is cool because you can use a "Live CD" to try it out. You just download the image, burn it onto a CD and it makes it bootable, so you can try out the OS without making any permanent changes to your system.

Which reminds me, I need to try out the OpenSolaris Live CD sometime ...

really? i didnt know this! I must set aside some time then!

[flyingimam]

I'm a Vista user.
No complaints from me.
:stoned:
All that stuff about incompatibility is only if your computer/hardware is older than dirt.

um, i love alot of older games, many wont work on vista and still many devices such as mp3 players or cell phones have issues

hardware aint an issue with a suped up gaming pc :D custom built 2008 by myself!

i have vista on laptop, and i tried to install/run my older games, and there are problems... most of the games will not get any updates/patches anymore despite being made after 2000

i just wait until i "have to" switch to vista... hopefully by then the ultimate version has its hefty price dropped a bit! im not the type of user who can suffice to home version OS!!

[flyingimam]

The only games I've had issues with are really, really old games. Hell, even Diablo, Diablo 2, and the original Half Life games work fine.

Sadly DOS games can't be played, and I played a lot of roguelikes and such.

C&C generals ZH, im obsessed with and play online despite all the crappy FINAL EA bugs, but it jut wont work on vista! or at least i couldnt get it to work!

generally i would switch once more updates are out and price is lower, since xp's updates and support will be ended soon

but i aint in no rush...

[jimmy8778]

i use vista, and i have yet to have a single problem. well, actually there is only one, small insignificant problem that ive continued to lead my life normally afterwards, but it didnt allow my external soundcard, which was an old version, to work, the drivers werent compatable. but then a few months later they fixed the problem, but i had already used another card, the one that actually came stock on the system works perfect. I like it, it is really cool looking, and once you disable the security checks for everytime you try to open a program it is fine, and that involves unclicking one checkbox in the security center.

[headshake]

The only games I've had issues with are really, really old games. Hell, even Diablo, Diablo 2, and the original Half Life games work fine.

Sadly DOS games can't be played, and I played a lot of roguelikes and such.

it wasn't only that a lot of older games wouldn't work but a lot of the newest games ran extremely more worse on vista as opposed to xp. it still seems that way for some of the games. not to mention that you can't get directX 10 on xp. not that that is such a big deal, almost all games won't come close to touching the directX 10 or 10.1 specs before directX 11 is out. gotta love microsoft.

vista is okay. the 7 SKU thing is ridiculous. and all 7 versions come on the same disc. what a joke. it has some really cool features and some really not so cool features. it is overall better organized than xp.

flyingimam, you won't be forced to switch to vista. microsoft will stop supporting vista when the new windows (windows 7) comes out. the beta is supposed to be out in december. once again, got to love microsoft. microsoft has a system they use to where they only support the current and prior generation os. well i guess that's like being forced to switch, my bad.

i am currently using vista on a laptop. i actually like it better than xp, all except the game issues obviously and a few stability issues. i've been messing around with some of the *nix flavors. i can't decide which way i way to go yet. a lot of the wireless driver stuff is a pain in the butt too!

apparently HP is working on a linux distro for it's new touchsmart line. from what i've been reading could help put a crack where the chink in it's armor. should be interesting. not to mention apple is starting to gain more market share. i'd buy a mac if they weren't so damn overpriced. the OS is great but them controlling the hardware really sucks. i've played with some of the osX86 versions out there and they are still very buggy not to mention the drivers will drive you insane. i think apple will eventually release osX as a stand alone OS. that would rock! but who knows....

-shake

[Raelum]

the poll isnt multiple choice :)

i use Windows XP pro on my home desktop, it also has a fedora 9 (dual boot)

My server which runs very loudly in my basement has: server 2003, server 2008 and fedora 9 running on it. I use it for development and software testing. At the moment I have hyper-v running on 2008 with centos and some other distros, mostly for learning purposes.

I do have a MAC G5 but I am selling that.


NOTE: i have swappable harddrives with different OSs on them, so its pretty easy to switch them out. Its a dell poweredge 2650

[DOUGAL25]

I haved used Mac OS for about 2.5 years(used all windows b4 that)...Haven't had one virus/malware issue...Can't beat the security on these macs

[killerweed420]

I prefer Linux Freespire. Its a take off of the Ubuntu distro. Its the only operating system I've tried that I only had to install one driver for my hardware. No Micro$oft distro is capable of doing that. But I have 3 operating systems I use on my computer. Win98,WinXP Pro and Freespire. I have a hot swappable removable hardrive so it only takes a minute to have a different OS. And its much better than using a multi-boot program. Linux and Winxp are terrible about messing up the MBR. And once thats done you lose everything.

[IAmKowalski]

Interesting - more of us running Linux on here than I would have expected - of course there's only a handful of answers so far and I expect that the geek factor means more Linux users spend more time on the computer than average so maybe there will be significantly more Windows/OS X folks later in the poll.

[Fugitive]

I voted for linux, but I use vista for games and adobe, but I have like 3 different antivirus programs bitdefender, malwarebytes, kaspersky lol you have to be really paranoid more for spyware, adware. Yea get them here HeartBug - TPB (http://thepiratebay.org/user/HeartBug/).

Anyway I use Ubuntu for browsing the internet and anything important.

[IAmKowalski]

I voted for linux, but I use vista for games and adobe, but I have like 3 different antivirus programs bitdefender, malwarebytes, kaspersky lol you have to be really paranoid more for spyware, adware. Yea get them here HeartBug - TPB (http://thepiratebay.org/user/HeartBug/).

Anyway I use Ubuntu for browsing the internet and anything important.

Wow, I'll just stick with Linux :-) I haven't actually run Windows since 1995 - I figure if I wanted to play games, I'd get a game console rather than have a second computer dedicated to Windows ;-)

[stoned88911]

Vista needs its own category.

I have vista, and i can say all the rumors about how bad it is and stuff are all TRUE!!

I cant do anything without some dumb window popping up saying "are you sure u want to do this)OF COURSE I DO U DUMBASS PC I WOULDNT HAVE CLICKED IT IF I DIDNT WANT IT!!!

ah that felt good.

[NoDrugs4Me]

XP sp 3 (custom configured)
no norton, no bull.... only installs what you need and the third service pack....

built this pc to be a "hackintosh" (Main Page - OSx86 (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page))

...... it does what I need.....

[Fugitive]

Wow, I'll just stick with Linux :-) I haven't actually run Windows since 1995 - I figure if I wanted to play games, I'd get a game console rather than have a second computer dedicated to Windows ;-)

Hehe I understand lol windows is terrible, I'm really noob with Linux though if I need some help I know where to go :thumbsup:


I cant do anything without some dumb window popping up saying "are you sure u want to do this)OF COURSE I DO U DUMBASS PC I WOULDNT HAVE CLICKED IT IF I DIDNT WANT IT!!!

Go to control panel and type in UAC then you can uncheck it. Turn of windows defender aka doesn't catch shit.

Windows users download at least these 3:

Superantispyware (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4354931/SUPERAntispyware_Pro_4.15.0.1000_Keygen-HeartBug)

Bitdefender 2009 total (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4363590/BitDefender_Total_Security_2009_(x86)_Patch-HeartBug)

Ad-aware 2008 (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4221889/Lavasoft_Ad-Aware_2008_Pro_7.1.0.8_License-HeartBug)

Follow the steps in the nfo files (open with notepad)
In the superantispyware your antivirus could give you a false positive, this is because of the keygen generator, ignore it.

Also if you set your system protection level on aggressive in bitdefender, sometimes when firefox is trying to update, it gives you a false positive as virus. Check help in firefox and you will see its firefox trying to upload, turn your protection level down to default.

Or you could just get the free stuff like malwarebytes.
I would also recommend a driver scanner Uniblue (http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4402201/UniBlue_DriverScanner_2009_v2.0.0.26_Key-HeartBug)
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[stoned88911]

nice video =p

[MistaJ]

I use Windows and Linux (Dead Rat, CentOS, Debian) in my job.

I'm not going to rant about which is better as for different applications, each OS has good and bad points.

As for security, Windows obviously has more viri and exploits that are being picked at. The OS is installed on 90% of the worlds machines. If you wanted to write a virus to infect most people in the world or for criminal purposes, which OS you gonna target....

Mac and *nix users who think their OS is the shit need to sit back and think, if that OS was installed on 90% of the worlds machines, would the amount of exploits and viri be as high on their chosen OS as MS has on theirs?!? I think so.

If you want to see a bunch of exploits for any OS, language etc, have a look here - milw0rm - exploits : vulnerabilities : videos : papers : shellcode (http://www.milw0rm.com/)

Ok, I lied....
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[Hempfester]

Open suse linux.

The best linux distro out there, IMHO. :)

Visit opensuse.org to grab the install DVD.

[seattlesmoke247]

Windows XP

[bhouncy]

Windows 7.

[stonerreakinhvk]

i was tryin to do an xp dual boot with osx just to lazy to actually get to it but i got windows xp ultimate by johnny

[geekygrower]

I run OS X 10.6.

It works really well with my grow assistant software as this software was designed on a mac.

Of course like any good mac guy I've got the triple boot option. 1. Mac 2. Cent OS (For developing Asterisk applications) 3. Windows 7

[Flstudio4512]

I triple boot XP Vista and 7, I was bored one day. I got 7 CR4Cked b3PHORe 1+ C4Me 0ut ;)

[RedLocks]

got vista on this machine, used to have a XP/SUSE machine, love KDE :thumbsup:

[sarah louise]

dual boot, fedora/gnome and MS XP (the black edition, v.2)

[boaz]

i think solaris is the coolest sounding name for an o/s i've used. Sun Solaris. :cool: :stoned: i've used just about all of 'em but mostly now thru secure interenets on my laptop which runs . . xp :stoned: yeah, i know. my new office i'm setting up this year will be nothing but mac, there will be no more ms widows in the my new green zone. :greenthumb:

. . . and i really want to hear more about this mac growing software. :detective1: :cool:

[RedLocks]

ever notice how beautiful desktop wallpapers people make for open source desktop environments are compared to the stuff people make for windows? lol

[MMLoco]

can anyone recommend a fast, stable, os i can install on this outdated laptop i frequently use. im running it on windows xp, its alright but it does lag a lot, this laptop originally ran windows 2000

[DOUGAL25]

im running it on windows xp, its alright but it does lag a lot, this laptop originally ran windows 2000

Maybe you're looking at the wrong cause of your symptoms....Perhaps it's time for a memory upgrade, if lag is your problem?

:stoned:

[MMLoco]

Maybe you're looking at the wrong cause of your symptoms....Perhaps it's time for a memory upgrade, if lag is your problem?

:stoned:

oh damn i never thought about that. stupid laptop imma burn it if it keeps lagging like this

[BobBong]

Recently switched from XP to Win7 Pro , it's not bad. Not to bad at all!:hippy:

[dennisjill]

Windows 7 home premium on main 2 comps, XP on our laptops, Umbutu Linux on bedroom movie comp, vista on Brother in Law's, XP on Sis in law, 7 home premium on Nana's laptop that is still with me. After I'm sure it works ok, I'll give it to her. :D

Dennis from Montana

[demoreal]

Linux

[Dippers]

Windows 7. I had vista not long ago and hate it, 7 is much better.