Best Operating system till now

[JerraMaya]

Well its time we should know what evryone thing of the OS in market and which tops them all right now

[cr3am]

the ONLY time my win2000 has crashed is when ZoneAlarm and BF1942 got into a neverending loop over power, so it wasn't even win2000's fault.

i love my win2000

[Yian]

I voted for XP for the games it has served me. I'm a man who likes old stuffs that have been working with me for a time... My Matasonic motherboard, my Geforce2 MX, and such... 98 actually worked for me for a while, too, but it crashes almost daily. Xp gives me almost no trouble since it was out.

[Shadow]

Tux all the way! Sure Linux is user-unfriendly, and is hard to set up, but it is stable, secure (if you know how to use it) and basically never crashes -- yes... i have crashed it :P

[Roq]

XP never crashes and works with everything i have. Linux does not.

[portzebie]

XP I has only crashed I think once since I got it in november of 2001:D

[NuclearWhale]

XP crashes on me atleast 2 or 3 times a week, but It may be something else. I think XP Proffessional is the best out there though, havent messed with linux much so i dont know a whole lot there.

[Hobbes874]

nothing i comapatable with linux thats the problem...:( so i'd have to say XP is the best so faR.

[ReDeeMeR]

XP all the way, I hate M$, but let's get real XP ownz everything!!
Havent crashed since I bought it on this Xmas :D

Btw I had 3 viruses and was hacked ones and still managed to restore my OS without reformat or reinstall :D

Who da man! 8)

[Bluu]

win2k rulez

[cr3am]

out of the n00bs that voted XP, how many of you have used win2000? and how many of you know a lot about computers?

[portzebie]

What about Windows 3.5 I still use it my computer in my room to play oldschool games from the 80's:) :D

[Rhenna]

Runnin' 98Lite on two boxes. 98Lite gives you a TON of configuration choices that MS hides. You can completely rip all the Internet Explorer stuff out of Win98 and use the Win95 Explorer Desktop instead. Yeah, it looks and feels old school, but the idea, in my opinion, is to get to and run your games and apps, not play with gadgets and gizmos in your OS. It loads AND shuts down in seconds, you wind up with a smaller, less complex registry, and it's as stable as anything I've used. If you want IE, you can install it as a separate app. I'm running XP Pro and 2000, as well. XP is very slick, but it's WAY too bloated for this girl. I've got it on a real short leash. 2000 is very good, probably what I would settle on if I had to choose just one.

www.litePC.com if you're curious. If you have Win98, or even WinMe, you might find it worthwhile.

[Yian]

98 does need a less complicated regi system. It sucked. Everytime you install, uninstall something, it is messed up. 98 is something you really can't use for more than 6 month because it will be filled with bugs. This lite thing does a really good job on that one. But, hellllll, whe cares about 98 these days... Xp is so much better. The only time I use my 98 disc is when I have to reinstall my Windows XP (because it is an upgrade version, not a full one.)

[cr3am]

out of the n00bs that voted XP, how many of you have used win2000? and how many of you know a lot about computers?

[Freakonaleash89]

I use XP Pro and I love it. It isn't the most stable gaming platform at times, but it rarely ever crashes and it just feels tons more solid than ME or 98SE. Believe me I've had ALL the MS home use operating systems since 3.1. XP Pro is better than any other gaming operating system out there even with its problems.

[WhoGivesARatsAss]

Used Win 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP Home and XP Pro.. but XP pro really does run better than anything else.. lastly.. windows 2000 is best for setting up a network and developing software but is very susceptible (to viruses and hacks especially from Linux Users hehe) as compared to RedHat Linux.. but for now i am working on 2000 for all s/w development applications and its pretty cool but for games i have got to say XP Pro is the best.. btw XP home really sucks dick.. i wonder why people buy the damn thing.. i know its cheaper but if u can spend 100 bucks more and get more stability do it dammit..

[JerraMaya]

i have used win 95 ,98 , Me , XP pro , Win2000 ,
i think best sales were of win 95 and 98 and were not that bad but mellinium used to crash alot and has a bad performance , win2000 is safe and good in networking too , Linux is very very safe and win Xp crashes alot less than any other window and is compatible with multimedia so its good too

[Hobbes874]

windows 2000 professional is great I have it on another computer but my comp has XP and i love it.

[aphremen]

Win2000 is fun and all for a workstation (it's used at my work!) but it's not compatable for some perephials. XP pro seems just as stable to me and perhaps not as much a memory hog. *deleted*

98, millenium, xp home, they all suck.

[cr3am]

fyi, we decided that we wouldn't just say that we didn't pay for something in another thread, that it kinda crosses the line a bit

[aphremen]

ah, ic. Wow, you are pretty easy on noobs up in here...most forums would be like "STFU you stupid noob search the forums if you don't know any better or get the fuck out of our fucking forum mother fucker!!!!!!111" And then the noob would be all like "u ppl r'nt nice...asl?wanna cyber?"

Then a moderator would delete the thread. Well, at least that part still happens, but that's expected. :)

[cr3am]

meh, this forums is pretty new, and we're all high by nature

[Odm]

Yup, we don't need drugs to get high. High... HIGH... HIGH! Ahem... I'll stop now

[aphremen]

I need to take the spice melange just to stay alive...it is why my eyes are blue within blue. How new is this forum? I thought it had been around since the ancients walked the earth?

[cr3am]

i think March 3rd. but this site has been here at least 2 years

[aphremen]

OIC. Well this is a fairly large forum considering the age.

[Downfall]

lots of people love the place....

[Yian]

hello, aphreman. This is an old thread and I was suprised to see it come back to life. People used to discourage the posting of an old thread, but for me, new members should have their rights to express their thoughts on the stuff we talked before. Anyways, hello.:D :D :D :p

[portzebie]

windows 3.5 best os ever

[Yian]

portzbie stop smoking pot and come back to our world!

[Downfall]

all i have to say is DOS............hehe...who am i kidding i have no idea wha im talking about..i use Xp and it has yet to give me any problems

[aphremen]

hmmm...I just noticed dos 7.0 isn't an option....or even 6.1!

[portzebie]

oh I am sorry Yian I meant to say windows 3.1

[Yian]

That's more like it, Portzebie. See, Windows 3.0 and 3.1 were probably the most stable OS ever produced. We haven't seen that untill XP came along.

Let's hope Long Hrn is good!!!

[aphremen]

Hehe, that's pretty funny Yian. :) Of course, if you were serious I don't think you can count them as actualy OSes because they are basically a GUI for DOS with a bit more tacked on. NT, XP, etc are based off a whole new Kernel with networking, multitasking, and stability all in mind.

Networking is way easier nowadays then back in the bad old days, not to mention running more than one proggie at once.

[portzebie]

true very true

[JerraMaya]

so Win XP rules :D

[Orions_Stardom]

I have used:
MSDOS 5
MSDOS 6
Win 95A
Win 98 Second Edition
Win ME
Win XP Home
Win XP Pro
Had some realy quick glimpses of Win NT, but never realy used it much.
Mac OS 9.2

Out of those, XP seems to handle everything alot better - it crashes one Program instead of the whole computer, it hardly ever even gets to that stage, I have come across no major bugs in it yet, and it looks pretty. :)
Mac OS *sucks*.
Win ME *sucks*.
Win 95 *sucks*.
Win 98 is decent.
DOS is fun, and was good for it`s day, but a GUI OS just looks better. ;)

I`ve had absolutely no experience in *nix, so I can`t comment on it.
For those people who mentioned Windows versions pre 95, they didn`t pretend to be operating systems like the more modern versions do... when you turned on your computer, you weren`t actually straight in Windows, and closing Windows didn`t come up with a screen saying "It is now safe to turn off your computer", or turn the computer off for you. Windows was (and technically still is) a *program* rather than an OS, the difference now being that it does actually try to be one.

[aphremen]

I just remembered, Norton had a bomb ass shell for win 3.1 that gave it some more functionality. I actually had different bootdisks for if I wanted to go into DOS, start up windows, start up windows with the norton shell, start up dos with networking then doom/doom2/RiseOfTheTriad multiplayer game client. :D Ah, those were the days...freeing up enough extended memory to play Tie fighter or x-wing...boy those games sucked.

[cr3am]

Originally posted by Orions_Stardom
I have used:
MSDOS 5
MSDOS 6
Win 95A
Win 98 Second Edition
Win ME
Win XP Home
Win XP Pro
Had some realy quick glimpses of Win NT, but never realy used it much.
Mac OS 9.2 gotta try win2000

[JerraMaya]

One thing is 100% confirmed Windows Me SUCKS :D

[aphremen]

I concur with your findings.

[IkYiolul]

I have not tried win2k cr3am...I would like to do an install of it, just dont have the software..so if I ever get it I'll try it just for you!

[aphremen]

I have it at work. Honestly, I couldn't tell the difference between it and a fully updated version of NT4.0. But then again, I don't game at work.

[JerraMaya]

Originally posted by IkYiolul
I have not tried win2k cr3am...I would like to do an install of it, just dont have the software..so if I ever get it I'll try it just for you!

Thats would be good coz its good OS and secure one 2

[cr3am]

yeah, ok

[Odm]

Originally posted by jerramaya
One thing is 100% confirmed Windows Me SUCKS :D
I have ME... but I can't change, my parents would get annoyed.

[aphremen]

Where do you live? If near some place that has a supercomputer, go dumpster diving, you might find working stuff that will help you build your own machine. Sounds unlikely but I've heard of ppl finding scsi controllers and power supplies and all sorts of things. Just find out where the super nodes around you are and ride your bike down there at the end of every day.

[cr3am]

Originally posted by aphremen
Where do you live? If near some place that has a supercomputer, go dumpster diving, you might find working stuff that will help you build your own machine. Sounds unlikely but I've heard of ppl finding scsi controllers and power supplies and all sorts of things. Just find out where the super nodes around you are and ride your bike down there at the end of every day. do you have AIM?

[aphremen]

oh for the love of crap I'm just gonna stop trying to give advice to that wacky canadian kid.

Perhaps I'm calling it the wrong thing but what is it exactly you call 100 or more linux boxes networked to make a supercomputer? I thought supernode. At any rate, there's one of those the community college owns on this island (maui) and every once in a while they throw out perfectly good cat5e.

[cr3am]

do you have AIM?

[aphremen]

No i do not. Why? (I thought it was just an insult....)

Actually now that I think about it I do have it on my phone but I never use it.

[Odm]

I'm the wacky Canadian kid? Hmm

[aphremen]

Well, you are pretty zany, even you must admit that! and you are canadian iirc? and you are 14. right?

[Odm]

Yes, yes, and yes. Actually, half-canadian, but no matter.

[aphremen]

Canadian isn't a race, it's where you from. It's how you feel. If you from Canada, and you represent as a Canadian, you a Canadian. Jim Carrey isn't really Canadian, but The Great One is. You know what I'm saying?

[JerraMaya]

Originally posted by Odm
I have ME... but I can't change, my parents would get annoyed.

Break the cd :D, and get Win XP , or live with it :D sorry dude but its not a good OS

[cr3am]

Originally posted by aphremen
No i do not. Why? (I thought it was just an insult....) how can i find where the supercomputers are located? one man's trash...

[aphremen]

Ah, I see. Ask around, that's how I found out there was one in my area. Supercomputers are very large so they move very slow so you have that going for you. :D I would check out the websites of the colleges near you to see if there is one at one of them. Or check the dumpsters near the college's computer labs!

[cr3am]

man, your avatar finally makes sense. you're a homeless guy that sells computer parts from trash cans.

[JerraMaya]

Originally posted by cr3am
man, your avatar finally makes sense. you're a homeless guy that sells computer parts from trash cans.

:D :D

[Neil Peart]

You are a homless guy that sells Pc parts!!!!

hahaha!!! CLASSIC!!!! he kinda looks like it (the pic. and all)
:D

[JerraMaya]

:D

[aphremen]

Hehe. Actually, I changed it to match the people who like pants around here. :D

[Neil Peart]

hehe:D *starcastically* got ta love the pant lovers!!:eek:




:D

[Smapdey]

I think I'm the first one to bring up the glory of Mac OS (There are different versions FYI). The thing damn near never ever crashes, it looks gorgeous and can run a helluva lot of games very well even with low system specs. When Long Horn comes out with all it's advanced Spy Ware features, I very well may start using a Mac. Long Horn is just unacceptable from what I've heard about it.

[JerraMaya]

ok dude :D

[Rhenna]

I know it would NEVER happen, just because of all the OEM machines that would come with it, but I think it would be great if people, just once, just one goddam time, took a pass on Microsoft's next OS.

What we need is a currently available MS OS that's been thoroughly de-bugged. (And, guess who all the BETA-testers are?)

What we DON'T need, IMO, is an entirely new collection of some 300 billion lines of code, with all the related headaches that come with it.

I'm not a huge XP fan, but I'd rather see MS focusing it's resources on getting it as refined as possible, rather than Longhorn. I mean, after your OS is installed, all the end user is trying to do is reach his or her app, and run the damn thing, right? How much more CRAP do we really need on or beneath our desktops to play with, misconfigure, and eventually hose?

Smapdey just may have a point with the Mac. I've always described them as "girl's computers", but I wonder how often an Apple user has had to reinstall their OS, just to solve some issue where it let them down. Show of hands, please, boys and girls: how many times has everyone HAD to re-install Windows? (or, really wanted to, but couldn't for some reason?)

[sushi128]

i speak for a friend here, but the reason a mac user might not reinstall is cause it's a bitch. he just handed it off to an apple tech.

and as for windows, i'd guess an average of 2 times of mandatory reinstallation for each version of windows.

i like the fact that u can mess with windows a lot more than u can mess with a mac. the "crap" comes in handy sometimes.

[WhoGivesARatsAss]

if windows were crap then how the fuck would we play games!..

[JerraMaya]

Originally posted by WhoGivesARatsAss
if windows were crap then how the fuck would we play games!..

Dont get mad dude the polling shows it all :D :D

[aphremen]

Yeah I'd like to see them "Fix" XP some more, but lets face it, they'd just end up with MORE code bloat. (who knows, maybe some memory leeks)

[WhoGivesARatsAss]

WINXP OWNZ UR ASSES YET YOU CONDEMN IT.. DAMN YOU PEOPLE.. DAMN YOU TO HELL!

[JerraMaya]

Originally posted by WhoGivesARatsAss
WINXP OWNZ UR ASSES YET YOU CONDEMN IT.. DAMN YOU PEOPLE.. DAMN YOU TO HELL!

Ahem Ahem easy dude WTF THATS TRUE GO TO HELL :D

[JerraMaya]

and tell me whos the MORON who voted for WIN ME :mad: :mad: :mad:

[aphremen]

and how come noone noticed I cleverly mispelled memory leaks as if they were memory beans instead of leaks?

[Mr.Nerdy]

ME=Daily Crashes

[sushi128]

only cuz u don't know how to treat it right :mad:

[JerraMaya]

Originally posted by sushi128
only cuz u don't know how to treat it right :mad:

U have to keep it in a nice room , give it love and Screw it :mad: WIN ME SUCKS DONKEY BALLS and Crash ALOt

[mR-D]

I like XP. I think that it's the most user friendly OS out.

[JerraMaya]

Originally posted by mor3
I like XP. I think that it's the most user friendly OS out.

Correct dude :D

[LoverboyRulz]

ok ...i had win2k for a while...then i tried Me which really sucked very bad for its famous blue screen of death and the frequency of those screens bugged the life out of me...finally i got xp pro and finally i found out the winner...althouh i must say win2k gave it a close fight...acc to me just a few ratings..mite seem totally irrelevvant to a few...no offence...bear up with it..

Win2000 XP Pro

User Friendly 7.5 9
Networking 9 8
Aesthetics 7 9
Driver Support 7.5 9
Stability 7.5 10
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 38.5 45

WinXP Pro wins for me ! :)

[dimsum411]

Has anyone tried their hand at Windows Server 2003?

pros/cons?

[aphremen]

don't use it on your home pc, it's not made for gaming, etc. Don't use it on a server, it's not made for security.

[WhoGivesARatsAss]

Originally posted by aphremen
don't use it on your home pc, it's not made for gaming, etc. Don't use it on a server, it's not made for security.

lol.. so true! btw i have my Nestle app deployed on win 2003 server.. it runs fine but if there is a virus.. houston we do get a shitload of problems!

[dimsum411]

then why the hell is it there?!:confused:

[WhoGivesARatsAss]

xp roxors me boxors!

[JerraMaya]

WTF ok :D

[iplayguitar]

whats the next windows gonna be?

[iplayguitar]

THE NEXT???? ANYONE??

[Digital Pimp]

Next MS OS will be Longhorn. But you already know bout that iplayguitar. I would say the best one for me is XP. Crashed once and that was with the MSBLaster worm I got a few days ago. I thoroughly enjoyed the 5 years I had win 95. Very few crashes with that except towards the end when my whole computer was failing on me in Spring 02.

[iplayguitar]

yeah i think it was in the MsBlaster thread u guys told me.
and damn 5 yrs on 95

[Digital Pimp]

Yea 5 yrs. My family never really felt like updating. We were getting really good performance out of 95. It was the latest code build from like 97 when we got the computer. This was an upgrade from a Intel 468 running Win 3.1 . Anyway , so yeah I never used 98 or 2000 or ME. I don't know if I would have liked those, maybe 98. So my mom has fallen in love with Unreal Tournament and she plays the game everyday, the woman is 42 years old by the way. We couldn't install UT on our old comp so we upgraded to this new one Summer 02.

[iplayguitar]

heh

[MrBored]

I haven't read through the whole thread, but who the fuck voted for the bastard child that was Windows Millenium, that is the worst piece of shit I have ever seen.

[iplayguitar]

i heard it had a shit load of problems

[mR-D]

Originally posted by Digital Pimp
So my mom has fallen in love with Unreal Tournament and she plays the game everyday, the woman is 42 years old by the way.

LOL:):p;)

Good on her man!!