Which OS are you using and why?

[Jammrock]

Like Gurm said...depending on how you tweak it and what services you delete...

WinXP can be extremely fast if you tweak the hell out of it.

Jammrock

[Alec]

I´m still under the spell of W2K professional... ever since I have a PC I have only used W95, 98 and ME. I installed W2K last Sunday and I´m still amazed by it. Gaming performance is just a little slower, but it´s worth it baecause of the stability and general OS speed...

Service pack 2 brings a new feature: in shortcuts, you can execute applications with special backwards compatibility with W95 and W98...

[Pace]

Originally posted by Electric Amish
According to Anandtech

Oh, ok

(sorry, just messing ...where was this?)

P.

[rocketmanx]

Win2k on all my dual boxes (1 graphics machine and the other 2 run G@H)- I haven't had any problems with getting drivers with the exception of my HP Scnajet 6300. Of course I upgrade hardware so often Win2k is older than most of my hardware and software.
I use Win2k on my laptop here at work for the stability
WinME on my Game machine
WinME and Win98SE on my dedicated Genome boxes.
I try to spread out my licenses in a somewhat legal distribution
I fiddle around with Linux (I like Mandrake and SUSE mostly- no Red HAT!) off and on but I have to give a big 10/4 to Gurm on his Linux views- I don't believe they are exagerated in the least.
Besides- when we are using the latest and greatest hardware and the latest and greatest software, all in the name of technicalogical advancement, why is it we are still using OS's that are essentially many years old??? I can't believe noone has designed a totally new OS not based on UNIX or Win whatever but a totally new OS. As far as I can tell (and I know Nothing about computer science so feel to correct any ignarance) the only thing that hasn't really advanced since the advent of the computer is the basic languages it uses to communicate.
Woops got a little winded their.
Pete

[Sasq]

Win2k server on the server
win2k pro on my main machine
Linux on the secondary machine

win2k pro for stability, games and graphics
win2k server because i have a USB dsl modem@and I canft get drivers for Linux

Linux, to learn on (I already have MCSE and MCDBA) and cause it runs murc|bot

Dan

[Wombat]

Yes, that's right, just because an idea is old means it's bad. MS can't get multi-user right, and I'm addicted to the file-based paradigm.

If Unix is so old and outdated, then why is it run on all the big guns? Why are the processors I'm working on running Unix, and why are Unix setups so often faster than their MS counterparts?

No 3D eh? I don't see you rendering Final Fantasy on Windows. And Shrek was also rendered on Linux, and some of the animation was done too (Maya, anyone?).

[Alec]

One thing is to state reality and other thing is POTENTIAL reality. I think Linux has potential to be as powerful or even more powerful as a whole than any Windows OS. Photoshop is simply the best image manipulation program I´ve ever seen, and I think it could have been written for Linux easily... but MONEY counts for something, as well as the potential number of customers. So, no Photoshop for Linux. This applies to lots of world-renouned applications, I guess.

About compatibility, the basic file formats (doc, bmp, jpg, tif, pdf, html, eps, and many others) can be handled inside Linux with its included applications. Linux is useful, even in a microcosmos of the bloke (or blokette) who owns a PC and does not want to spend money on Windows and Office just to write text, manipulate some images and draw a litttle bit. He can even play a few games. I reckon 75% of the people who own a PC wouldn´t need more than a Linux distribution.

Everything that can help balance the scales in the business power panorama is OK by me. I remember Microsoft´s nr. 2 guy associating Linux with communism a few months ago just to scare people that still believe that communists actually eat (or ate) children... I laughed my ass off!

...but I use W2K.

[EdSki]

Ehmz...well you asked for it:

pc #1: Win2k prof. coz i want to play games on it and win98se/me kept crashing on me.. don't have XP, not sure i want it anyway.

pc #2: Dual boot Red hat 7.1 / Win2k AS (To play around with, try out stuff)

PC # 3: Dual boot Red Hat 6.2 /Win2k prof. Used mainly to gather dust.

Laptop #1: Win98 (poor thing only has 48mb of memory). Going to put Linux on this one..

Laptop #2: Win2k Prof
Laptop #3: Win NT (This one is from work)

Machines @work: Win NT ...coz i have to ...poor me