(February 16, 2013 at 8:30 pm)Meylis Lawrence Wrote: In your opinion, which is the best operating system?
As a home user, Windows 7 64-bit by far. I have experience with several distributions of Linux (Mint is my favourite), PC-BSD, Oracle Solaris and Apple Mac OS. Solaris and Mac OS are true certified UNIX operating systems and have a very good reputation for stability, but I just do not enjoy using them anywhere near as much as Windows 7. I find Windows 7 to have a vastly superior graphical user interface than any of its counterparts.
In terms of enterprise server systems, it appears that Microsoft has a huge market share with its range of Windows Server products. All of the companies I have ever worked for used one of the Windows Server products.
UNIX absolutely dominates the mainframe computing market, specifically with the certified UNIX OS "IBM AIX".
Linux dominates the supercomputer market.
I strongly dislike Apple because of its extremely disingenuous marketing techniques. For example, the outrageously overpriced MacBook Pro is, in essence, just a very powerful laptop. I feel that Apple have tricked consumers with the Mac OS operating system. Instead of allowing consumers to buy a laptop with exactly the same specification as a MacBook Pro for half the price (and manually install Mac OS), they have very cunningly developed Mac OS so that it searches for the "Trusted Platform Module" in Apple machines. At least Microsoft have not implemented such evil restrictions with Windows.
