What OS do you use?
 

What OS do you use?

i use Winxp Pro on my home comp
win98se on older comps

Red Hat on one of my old old machines

use winXP pro on my desktop comp at work
use win CE on a panel industrial PC to test softwares

use win2k pro and winxp pro to test softwares in the lab...
the machines in the lab are dells and HPs
dual Xeons and singles P3's
some are P4 2.53GHz's
decent...

i use Win2KPro at home and at work.

later

98.

2K refuses to enable DMA for my IDE controller

MIK3: Dont really know, Im a "newbie" in this site so I actually made this poll just to see what OS you guys use...

Thanks for the attention

durante

i would suggest that one does a search in the forum from the search option before posting such popular topics because chances are, it has been posted

just to avoid doubles

thank you

I run Win2k and FreeBSD 4.8 with Gnome

I run XP Home on my system for the majority of the time. I also run Windows 2000 Pro, and RedHat Linux 7.2.

Somebody help me.. if you had the choice.. why on earth would you choose 98 over xp? Personally, I can't stand 2k.. i think of it as a screw up from MS.. but so is everything else.. unless uranium doesn't have XP at his disposal.. and don't say it's the themes..

Some people say 98 runs games better than XP.

XP and 2k do have a refresh rate problem that can be overrode with a 3rd party application when runing games in fullscreen Direct3d or OpenGL mode

I would personally put 2K over XP and 98.

But since my IDE controller does not support DMA under 2K (M$ made the drivers for it). I refuse to use it.

bah... i suppose xp is much better; 'Hi Jason425, I am the Wizard for so-and-so with me you will never learn jack shit except how to fix the things i fuck up after doing all these automated tasks.'

xp isn't that bad but 2k needs more credit than you're giving it.

Watch your tone, please. Tensions have been high lately and people have been getting offended. Thank You!

yea.. there is more than one way to do most things, and if you already 'know everything' then the wizards just make things a bit faster and easier, or you can still do things the hard way.. its a choice. :poke:

this is a great conversation. i do not 'know everything', nor did i mention that. that was not the point to my statement. let me reiterate:

xp isn't that bad but 2k needs more credit than you're giving it.

yes, i concur. 2K is a good os. its very stable, i've only had one problem, but that was because i bad driver jacked everything up.

i've been working here for almost a year, i have yet to see a bsod on 2K.

just my $0.02.

later

bad topic for a poll simply b/c so many use different OS's. I have 2kpro, xppro, mandrake and freebsd on my several machines, some single boot, some multi-boot. *shrug* not very interesting really

edit: re: 2k is a screw up...
i'm not sure what you're talking about. maybe you're thinking of me (which is definitely a screwup). 2k is actually a hell of a lot more stable for me than xp is. If you're running a server of any kind, you'd definitely want to use 2k over xp or me (unless you're rich and can afford 2k3). It's a solid OS (though i have seen it BSOD plenty, but then I do some ridiculous stuff with my computer sometimes. . )

thanks for recognizing my point.

It's all a matter of opinion.. here is a quote from some guy i played CS with yesturday.. "When people argue online, it's like the special olympics, no matter who wins, they're all retards." :D

I agree. So no more arguing; and if you must, don't make it a name calling contest and make yourself look like an idiot, but disprove what the other is saying. This way at least the rest of us can get something out of it.