Like a great man once said, when you dont know what to say, just quote someone else..
O and Windows pwns.

O RLY? Why?

Windows XP, Why? because the only games that don't support it, support only Vista and vista is a ram raping piece of junk. Windows XP is for gamers, Mac is for office work and such, and Linux would be for servers.


In my lone opinion anyway, .

I run XP / Linux on two different machines. I found Linux runs more better, less memory leaks, no likely to be hacked, runs stable, less likely even get a virus, takes less memory to run, more secure then most OS. Less crash times. Only problem is doesn't run all games as Windows does, but can be fixed with patches and stuff.

So I'll say linux and for a mac I never use them or touch them. TAINTED EVIL!

Why would someone use Windows 3.1? its memory leak whore!

Mac os x is my favorite operating system. I dual boot on my iMac with windows xp and mac os x, using xp strictly for games.

Mac os x is a great computer for video editors, photographers, creative stuff.

Linux, not sure what i'd use it for but i'll install it on my machine soon to try it out.


Yeah.

ToA, why do you consider OS X good for video editors, photographers, and creative stuff..?

Cause of sources i've read [/edit]

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is that a joke..? lol..?

Funny, there was only a single on-topic post yet, amiright?

This thread is about which PARTS of OSes are the best and how to combine them for great pwnage, NOT which already existing OS is "the best".

So... One part to add in has to be Windows' 3rd party support, the other one the free-ness of Linux. High customizability, but still easy to use for newbs. Most other stuff relates to the way the OS handles memory, threads etc., and thus is pretty hard to optimize unless you're a pro on this.

I like Windows the best. I use Linux a little, but it's just too confusing. I usually end up having Pie or Doodle walk me through something step by step just to do something. OS X just a piece of crap though.

How the hell can open source be hard t understand thats just wierd.Even my mom for god sakes likes linux better then vista or mac.

Well, congratulations to your mom. I was referring to the actual OS, not the fact that it was OS. Just about whenever I wanted to do something like install Java, I had no clue what to do. Being able to look at a source filled with a language I don't understand is useless.

Windows XP and Windows 98.

Just use Debian or a fork. Apt-get is so easy to understand.


Let me explain why Mac OS X sucks.

It takes up 2gb of memory when idle, and is illegal to boot on non Mac computers. Also, it's just plain shitty.

Every single time I've had to use a Mac the scenario runs something like this; Boot up Mac, naively try to run more than 2 programs at once, crash. I'm sorry to blow your mind, Mac users, but yes, they crash. I have used a Mac a grand total of one time without it crashing.

As for Apple's shitty proprietary computers? Overpriced and underpowered. I just flipped through Newegg rather quickly, and for the same specifications, I could either get a) A $1194.00 iMac MA876LL, or b) A $749.99 Acer Veriton VT6900-UD4400P. And then one lets me run a solid Windows, DOS, Linux, UNIX, Solaris, BSD, or FreeBSD OS, and the other ships with a shiny piece of crap.

For the same price as the iMac, I could buy a computer with 3 times as much memory, a better graphics card, more than twice the HDD capacity, and a better CPU, among other things. Wait, did I say the same price? It's actually almost $50 cheaper. And I can upgrade whenever I feel the need.

If we wanted to, we could boot OS X on a cheaper PC, and it would run better. But Apple doesn't want that because they're more greedy than Microsoft (Gasp.) not that we WOULD want to, because we realise that OSs aren't specialised, they can all do everything you want to, but some do it better. If the people behind the few good programs that are Mac exclusive dedicated themselves to writing Linux/Windows programs, the world might be a nicer place.

lol, installing java is pretty easy.. I find using "Automatix" is sort of useful for new people to get all the basic things, such as java, installed.

I'm not sure where you got your information that Mac OS X uses 2gb on idle, Syphon. I've never heard that claim before... and personal experience shouldn't really be used to measure which operating system is better, because I've crashed tons of times on Windows (a lot are my own fault.. ) but yeah, both PC and Max OS X crash, obviously.

I wouldn't call Apple greedy, I would just call them interested in making money, which they should be. If they let OS X run on any computer, why would people buy Apple computers?

Bill Gates has said that if he redid his whole start he would manufacture his computers like apple does.
The two programs that have crashed my computer, yes a mac, has been word and ie and netscape aka cross platform programs.
OS X does not use 2gb of memory on idle or else my computer wouldn't run with it's 512mb memory.

And who every said mac sucks for programming is telling a lie. Have you even seen what I have been making?

What I really don't get is why people are so against other os's I have a mac and have no problem with windows.

They SHOULDN'T, Microsoft gets along just fine without manufacturing computers. And they'd be able to focus on making Mac OS better.


I just don't know why any programmer in their right mind would want to use OS X as their development workspace. It completely boggles my mind that there are any Mac programs.

Then you have not programmed on a mac, it's very easy. I learned to program and then got a lot of XEdit done in just 1 week.

Are you telling me Apple, as a business, shouldn't be doing what best intrests them? It's all about making money, forget about that "greedy" crap, any other business would do the same. Microsoft doesn't sell their own hardware because it's operating system is already on 99% of the computers sold.

Also, the fact that Apple hardware is uniform helps with stabillity, etc.

Finally, Apple is gaining more market share recently.. They're at like 3rd place in total sales for computer manufactuers. not so sure about that, actually..

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