What is your operating system of choice?
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What is your operating system of choice?
Mac OS X, but since I don't have a Mac, XP with all the gh3yn355 turned off.
It's a close match between Win2000 and Linux. I actually use them both simultaneously :)
I like Windows 2000, Linux, and BSD.
this hasn't been done before...
Well it's a good thing it's being done now! ;)
When the doctors perform it.Quote:
What is your operating system of choice?
Depends. Work: Linux. Leisure: Win2k.
linux for me :D although i like XP without the gayness and 2000
Im with parksie... Win2k and Linux.
Z.
Nah, OpenBSD is better than Linux:D
what can you do better with Linux that you can't with Win2K??
-Emo
OpenBSD vs Linux....Intriguing point - I never saw much difference between the different variants, actually.
BSD is closer to the real "Unix" though, isn't it?
Server stuff, but I can't think of anything else (well, anything practical)Quote:
Originally posted by Emo
what can you do better with Linux that you can't with Win2K??
-Emo
Win2K for me..I'm sure if I ran a dedicated server it would be using Linux...but I don't :p
Right now its Win 98.. but XP is ok when its not being a little ****.
Well, I finally got to try Windows XP, and it has to get my vote. I've decided that, in my opinion, Windows XP is definitely better than Windows 2000. It boots up much quicker and hibernation actually works for me. It's also finally possible for me to actually disable all the desktop icons.
I can't vote for any form of Linux, because I simply don't know how to use it.
2000's bootup speed isn't an issue for me ;) It only tends to get restarted once a week or so, if I make any changes to it.
I like my desktop icons :D
Just out of interest, do you prefer the new "task-based" folders, or the existing style?
I used to keep the computer on full-time, but I eventually stopped doing that. Even when it was on full-time, the boot-up time in Win2K would become an issue whenever the time came to actually restart it, such as when installing hardware.
Well, my desktop icons are gone, and this has rendered the Win+D keyboard shortcut virtually useless. :D Also, this makes my screenshots look better when all the windows are minimized or closed.
I'm not completely sure what you mean by task-based folders. If you're talking about the new layout of the control panel were it takes two clicks to get to anything instead of just one, it doesn't bother me at all. This is because the control panel is set to act like a menu in the start menu, so I rarely ever actually open up a Control Panel window. Just now, I had to open it up just to find out whether or not the new style is still enabled (it was).
Does this "task-based folders" feature show up anywhere else in WinXP, other than the control panel?
I never had any trouble whatsoever under 98SE, except that I couldn't reinstall it after a rebuild.
Now I'm using 2kpro sp2 and its the dogs bollocks ;)
I use XP, but without all the flowers. It never crashes, never falls over, never hangs, boots at turbo speed. I'm impressed with it.
But surely, there are more interesting things to talk about than favourite operating systems...?
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Originally posted by parksie
Just out of interest, do you prefer the new "task-based" folders, or the existing style?
I like the task-based folders, but only when it gets it right. It keeps displaying folders as thumbnails just because it's got 1 picture, or icon or something - it gets really annoying after a while.
youd think so wouldn't you :pQuote:
Originally posted by Arbiter
But surely, there are more interesting things to talk about than favourite operating systems...?
All of my desktop icons are gone in 2k... Its easier then in XP, too (dont know how to do it in XP, its just right click away in 2k).
I also like to use progman to manage my icons =).
Z.
Did you even get rid of My Computer, My Network Places, and the Recycle Bin? I was able to get rid of all of them but one. I don't remember which one wouldn't go away, but I ended up keeping those three.Quote:
Originally posted by Zaei
All of my desktop icons are gone in 2k... Its easier then in XP, too (dont know how to do it in XP, its just right click away in 2k).
is this something ive missed? whats with getting rid of your desktop icons? why would you do it?
Win 98 :)
XP and Linux aren't too bad though :)
Just a personal preference. I'd rather not have any desktop icons. I couldn't do it in Win2K, and I was able to do it in WinXP. That's all.Quote:
Originally posted by Behemoth
is this something ive missed? whats with getting rid of your desktop icons? why would you do it?
you'd loose so much functionality if you had no desktop icons.
I barely see much of my desktop, actually ;)
Although when I do, I use what's on there. Most of the stuff I use is in my quicklaunch; my desktop's only a Win-D away :D
its quite funny, at school we have this message board, and a bunch of stupid grade 10's were on there completely trashing winodws saying how it was the devil, etc you have all heard the propoganda. anyways i posted once in this 200+ post discussion. i said
"Its all very nice that you embrace alternatives for Windows however i must ask you, how many of you have tried something besides windows?"
not one person had tried linux, openBSD, freeBSD Unix mac OSx etc. all of them had only used windows. I find it quite funny how people can trash something in favour of an alternative which they havn't tried
I disagree. In Win2K, I never used those three icons that were there. In fact, the recycle bin was disabled. Now that I have no desktop icons in WinXP, I don't feel that I'm missing anything.Quote:
Originally posted by numtel
you'd loose so much functionality if you had no desktop icons.
Interestingly, I also have the quick launch toolbar disabled. I have hotkeys set up for most of the stuff I use.Quote:
Originally posted by parksie
Most of the stuff I use is in my quicklaunch
I have about 10 or so desktop icons, and one pop up toolbar on the left side of my screen
When I said all, i meant it =). No My Computer, No My Network Places, No Recycle Bin, nothing. My desktop is a blank grey screen. Its a little thing called Active Desktop, and it comes with IE =).
I have actually found it easier to work without my icons. I have a couple of shortcuts on my desktop(hidden, of course), with keyboard shortcuts on them... ctrl+alt+m for My Computer, ctrl+alt+c for C: drive, ctrl+alt+d for D: drive, ctrl+alt+w for winamp... and beyond that, its quick launch, auto hidden on the right side of my screen.
Z.
FreeBSD or 2k or Linux!
Parksie: Whats the real unix???
Where's the "I don't give a f***" option?
The OS I like best is SlackWare Linux, and then Win2k(But it doesn't install on my pc - like all NT OSes).
So I just stick with Win98, it works fine.
Now that it'll actually let me reply, I mean the BSD-derived ones, rather than Linux/GNU-based.Quote:
Originally posted by Beacon
FreeBSD or 2k or Linux!
Parksie: Whats the real unix???
You mean System V?
Probably.
Err, I mean BSD as opposed to System V :) My understanding is that they are the two main kinds of Unix, from a code fork ages ago.
Is that the fork when at&t pulled out of Multics and those others put together Unix??
Could be, I have no idea why the original AT&T Unix forked. Doesn't really explain why it's called BSD though, which I think is Berkeley Source Distribution. Any idea what Berkeley has to do with it?
Coz the dudes at Berkely Uni developed it i guess!!
Nobody's voted for Mac yet? :(
As far as I thought, it was developed somewhere, then they gave it to a load of students at Berkeley and it went from there.Quote:
Originally posted by Beacon
Coz the dudes at Berkely Uni developed it i guess!!
I haven't had much experience working with Macs (only used them a few times) but I recall that I didn't like the OS much. That was a long time ago, though, and I don't remember the reasons why. I just know it didn't impress me.
mac osx has cool graphics but it's so slow there's no functional use for it.
I only find their newest pc's beautifull to see, but I can't get their one-button mouse working! Perhaps I'm too much bonded (correct?) to Windows :mad:
DOS!
Think about it. In a film where you've got computers, you don't see them chucking up "Welcome to Windows" messages and going "Bing Bong" every five seconds do you?
And I've never ever had DOS lock up.
And I'm sure if someone thought it was a good idea it could be updated to run all the new gubbins that we get now.
DOS!
Simple, no nonsense, DOS!
http://www.freedos.org/
Here's one I bet nobody's ever heard of: http://www.atheos.cx/
Here is another one that you might not have heard of...
http://www.menuetos.org/
Z.
Last week, a friend at school had a very funky version of Linux. It was nothing more than two floppy-discs: One for starting everyting up and one containing the FileSystem. Very Cool, but i can't remember it's name.
DOS is the best!!! it's the only OS that never created any problems for me. It's so polite, it will ask YOU to make the problems for yourself;)
Windows 2000 Pro for general use and
Windows 2000 Server for Development Environment...
Cheers...
i've heard of atheos and all those, i've done major searching and found that i like reactos, it's very cool and fancy.
There are a bunch of mini Linux distros that work like this, IIRC.Quote:
Originally posted by Michael_Kamen
Last week, a friend at school had a very funky version of Linux. It was nothing more than two floppy-discs: One for starting everyting up and one containing the FileSystem. Very Cool, but i can't remember it's name.