Which OS do you like most?

Which OS do you like most?

  • Windows 3.x

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Windows 95/98

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Windows ME

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Windows 2000

    Votes: 3 6.3%
  • Windows XP

    Votes: 26 54.2%
  • Windows Vista

    Votes: 8 16.7%
  • OS/2

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mac OS X

    Votes: 3 6.3%
  • Linux

    Votes: 7 14.6%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Total voters
    48

xBoom

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For me, it's Windows XP because it's a fast, stable and has good memory management. No problems with it except hardware problems and app problems (not by Microsoft).

I like Vista too but.. it's heavy, my game ran smoother on XP than Vista.
CPU never gets idle (0% - 4%) on Vista even with the classic theme.

XP is my choice now (I tried Vista).
 
Currently I am running three different versions of Windows here. Both 32bit versions of XP along with Vista. Before spending on the improvements that will eventually seen in the Ultimate version I bought the initial release of the Home Premium edition to get familiar with the changes now seen. But XP Home remains on the primary while XP Pro is seen on recently added sata. Besides games which do run on Vista there are desktop programs that still require XP at this time.
 
I ran several distros here for a time but there were no Linux drivers found for the dsl router here. That kind of put a damper on things. :(
 
I've used all six windows OS's both at home and at work and XP is the most stable of them.

Mac or Linux I can't honestly comment upon
 
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i like vista better. Faster . and no errors like the others. well thats for me . well VISTA IS MY CHOOSE
 
i like vista better. Faster . and no errors like the others. well thats for me . well VISTA IS MY CHOOSE

Vista is nice...but for some reason its started to continuesly reading my hard drive....i heard someone else had that problem too :confused:
 
I've used all six windows OS's both at home and at work and XP is the most stable of them.

Mac or Linux I can't honestly comment upon

There are more then six versions of Windows to start off with.
Windows 1.0
Windows 2.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows NT 3.0
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 95
Windows 95 Plus!
98 1st, 98SE
2000
ME
XP Home, Pro, Pro 64bit, MCE 2005
32bit and 64bit versions of Vista now available. That doesn't include the Windows Server editions on top.
 
Longhorn is now Vista! They are always having problems getting it right. :P Why do you think they called XP XP? They weren't sure on which letter to go with. :eek: They certainly didn't want to call it 3000 since that would go over like a lead balloon with the 98-ME crowd. :P
 
I dont mean a version of Windows. They were going to call Windows, Interface Manager.

They actually started off calling it that in 1981 until renaming it to Windows. The first pre-version released two years later was Word for Dos. The extract here can easily be found at wikpedia.org.

Windows 1 and 2 - Early UI

Windows 1.0 GUI


Just after the PC hit the market (August 1981), a project named "Interface Manager" started. It was renamed to "Windows" because the programmers talked very much about the zones called "windows" on the screen. Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows would be a more appealing name to consumers. The first Windows pre-version was presented in November 1983. It used Word for DOS-like menus at the bottom of the screen. The 1.0 version (it was numbered 1.01; it is rumored that version 1.00 was actually released but quickly pulled due to a severe flaw), released in November 1985, used pull-down menus like the early Macintosh System 1.x (Microsoft actually licensed GUI elements from Apple). The shell was a file manager (not a program manager) called "MS-DOS Executive". Applications could be launched from the MS-DOS Executive which minimized itself. The minimizing (called "iconing") was done by transforming the windows into an icon which was placed at the bottom of the screen, in a special minimized windows zone. The maximizing (called "zooming") could extend the window over the minimized windows zone. Windows could not be overlapped, but they were instead "tiled". As a result, two windows could not be "zoomed" at the same time.
Windows 2.0 was an interface-based release. The new window controls were introduced with this release, with the new "minimize" and "maximize" terminology. Windows could be overlapped and the minimized window icons could be moved freely on the desktop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Shell
 
SP2 has been the winner for XP there. Now when you look over requirements on many newer apps and games alike you will see "SP2 required" as well as for XP MCE 2005. From 2000 up the last service pack is the apparent standard. Plan on about a full year for an SP1 for Vista.
 
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