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OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)

Poll: Which one is the best operating system for you?
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Windows Vista
0%
 0 0%
Chrome OS
0%
 0 0%
OS X Mountain Lion
21.43%
 6 21.43%
Windows 7
46.43%
 13 46.43%
Linux Ubuntu
3.57%
 1 3.57%
Windows XP
7.14%
 2 7.14%
Linux Mint
10.71%
 3 10.71%
Other
10.71%
 3 10.71%
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OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 17, 2013 at 7:32 am
Windows 8 definately has been a good OS for me. Big Grin

Why isn't it on the list?
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 17, 2013 at 7:35 am
OS X snow leopard.
Regret upgrading, like everybody who went from xp to vista.
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 17, 2013 at 7:51 am
I've been a windows guy for a lot of time.... For personal use, games, etc, windows just works.... since XP, at least! Wink

At work, I've had winXP, however I often need to interact with linux servers, so I recently switched to linux there.... The idea was to keep something similar to redHat. Tried CentOS first, because a mate is using it.... Found that it's a retarded linux distro (still stuck in Firefox 10).... so I switched to Fedora core 18.
Damn Gnome3 is messed up and required a lot of tweaking to make it behave... And yes, I've had to reboot the damn linux a bunch of times. By default it comes with the crappy tigerVNC, I installed RealVNC and I'm still trying to keep it behaving properly... Sometime it just gets screwed up claiming all VNC windows are taken, when none is... and a million other details which don't "just work" and require some attention.
On the other hand, it was freakishly simple to get apache to work, as well as mediawiki (with MySQL, PHP, etc), sshd...
Also, "ssh -X" just works!, unlike in windows, where I had to use Xming.
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 17, 2013 at 8:02 am
Vista sucked and it still does with 500MB of memory, lots of budget systems sold with that spec.
With 1GB perhaps it may be bearable after the first or second service pack.
With 4GB and service pack 2 it was OK.
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 17, 2013 at 8:22 am
(February 17, 2013 at 7:35 am)Stue Denim Wrote: OS X snow leopard.
Regret upgrading, like everybody who went from xp to vista.
Why? I've heard a few people say that, but I've found Mountain Lion to be much better than Snow Leopard.

(February 17, 2013 at 7:51 am)pocaracas Wrote: I've been a windows guy for a lot of time.... For personal use, games, etc, windows just works.... since XP, at least! Wink

At work, I've had winXP, however I often need to interact with linux servers, so I recently switched to linux there.... The idea was to keep something similar to redHat. Tried CentOS first, because a mate is using it.... Found that it's a retarded linux distro (still stuck in Firefox 10).... so I switched to Fedora core 18.
Damn Gnome3 is messed up and required a lot of tweaking to make it behave... And yes, I've had to reboot the damn linux a bunch of times. By default it comes with the crappy tigerVNC, I installed RealVNC and I'm still trying to keep it behaving properly... Sometime it just gets screwed up claiming all VNC windows are taken, when none is... and a million other details which don't "just work" and require some attention.
On the other hand, it was freakishly simple to get apache to work, as well as mediawiki (with MySQL, PHP, etc), sshd...
Also, "ssh -X" just works!, unlike in windows, where I had to use Xming.
Try Linux Mint one day. I've always preferred Debian-based distros.
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 17, 2013 at 2:37 pm
Windows 7 is pretty damn decent - hoping that I can snag a PC before they stop offering them with Win7 installed.
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 18, 2013 at 1:57 pm
First off 'The Best' it the best for you. Your best is going to be different from everybody else. There is no such this as the best, but we can all agreed there is a worst.
My personal preference is Windows 7.
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 18, 2013 at 2:18 pm (This post was last modified: February 18, 2013 at 2:20 pm by Violet.)
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 18, 2013 at 2:31 pm



Heh. "Every time you call a glossy Mac a Unix Server, a geek somewhere dies." /slashdot
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RE: OS Battle: which is the best? (OS X, Windows, Linux ...)
February 18, 2013 at 5:00 pm
I have both OS X and Win7 on my Mac. I use Win7 to play old games. And OS X for everything else. I can’t stand Windows constantly nagging me with dialogues and warnings.
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