what operating systems best

[opp37]

what operateting systems do most of you like best

me im old school xp pro the pro version was the only stable rock hard os

this stupid new hp omni mad me go to 7 64 yes mor memory reconized and other crap

but it is locked cant do classic start without hacks that most often crash it i have hacks to tak all security off

i dont know 3 or so reloads o lost all my saved and back ups of downloads i had whitch is strang i have a terrabyte backup

i found out the copy of 7 was bad so ijust got one stripped just os what came on it it seems ok i have seen xp boot faster then 7

but once inside the cpu gadget i have shows very low useage and now that its a good cop internet is really fast like its supposed to be

so im in limbo i was vista easir to use craks to shut all security and locked area back to open

i just dont know yet but i will never use 8 if i have to stay with this dual core to avoid 8 so be it

a clutter screen more towards social crap i hate no desktop i know you can do thing to be kinda normal

but screw that i already hate having to use 7 till i get used to it

and there is a poll on here about office i want 2003 or so but cant use anymore these stinking new one no bar at top with edit and other controls is cut off that seem to be the theme were Microsoft is going less control less access more locks more not allowed etc bunch of crap i say i want my control back i want i tell windows what to do no the other way around xp you were admin these might be admin but unless you crack it open admin dont mean crap 7 and on admin still has to have permission or just locked out

im in my 30s but act like a old fart and cuss and throw fits at all this new crap we dont need as far as im concerned fancy phones tablets the long list o well thats life adapt or die i stopped doing pce repairs because of 7 and mother boards got to confusing

 

[k3cfc]

Ummmmm WHAT!!!

 

[KB0VWG]

Yeah

Ummmmm WHAT!!!

I second that

 

[WB4CS]

Windows 7 x64 seems to be the best OS Microsoft has put out so far, with older XP Pro a close 2nd place winner.

I haven't used Windows 8 yet, but I'm not very happy on the graphical changes they've made to the OS.

I used Apple/Mac once and NEVER AGAIN.

If you want to go Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu are great free operating systems. But depending on your hardware, Linux can either work great out of the box, or can require hours of trying to figure out why something as simple as a sound card doesn't work lol.

Me personally, I use Windows 7 x64 Professional with Office 2010 at work. At home, my desktop is 10 years old, so I run Lubuntu Linux (a stripped down version of Ubuntu) because it doesn't require a powerful CPU or a lot of RAM to run.

 

[CapStar362]

i have Win7 Pro x64 on all my machines. my main rig a gaming machine will cold boot Win7 in 19 seconds thanks to the Vertex 4 SSD drive

 

[reconrider8]

I run win 7 ultimate on my desk and then win 7 enterprise on the laptop

 

[rapidcharger]

Excluding mobile devices, I'm running XP pro on every computer except for a couple with linux... laptop running Ubuntu and a server running CentOS. (I cant remember what versions)

Newer
does not always mean better.​

 

[opp37]

Linux is to complicated i tryed a few times to learn but just dont get it even the ones with the windows look

windows 7 like you guys i try to stay high i am on ultimate home is missing to much

i like the higher also because like xp xp pro was very close to rock solid

windows 7 ultimate seems to be that way this is the first time i have been 64 bi last time was vista and my copy had lots of 86 programs problems

7 seems to have fixed it so i guess im happy as long as this pc dont die i refuse windows 8

like WB4CS i hate the graphic interface

i think if you go custom pcs you can still force what os you want or some may even doe just drivers

is that Vertex 4 SSD drive one of those new flat super drives they came out with i have wanted to build one with one of those and some othe new fancy crap

thats the stuff i stopped pc repairs the boards hard drives everything i decided instead of relearning to just quit

i wish i could be like you rapidcharger my old ways are hard to toss i love xp it was so easy to network all these others are to many steps and trouble

i also like rapidchargers signature newer is not always better ooooh man tell me about it everything new i have had to buy sucks hard to use o basically school to learn the crap my home patrol i still haven't learned hours of reading the pdf hours of just playing with it tons of posts on here and i still dont know crap what fun new is

 

[Darth_vader]

Debian, with KDE or LXDE.

Now, I realise some people don't like the KDE front-end, which is why the extraordinarily inflexible and feature-stripped GNOME front-end is available as an alternative instead. GNOME is essentially what you'd get if you were to take the pre-version "X" MAC/OS graphic front-end, dumb it down thousands of times more than App£e originally intended and put it in a Linux environment. Needless to say, if GNOME's too hard to figure out, well, then I don't know what else to suggest other than to unplug the computer and just talk on the telephone!

I'm somewhat with WB4CS. I had to put up with 68K MAC systems for too many years at school (and later OS/X X86es for too many years at work) and wouldn't dare have one if I have anything to say about it. OS/X brings new meaning to the word "trash".

Window$ is and probably always will be a massive security hazard and does not belong on any machine connected to the greater public Internet or any other public computer network, period. Apart from Redmond's marketing clout, I can't think of any other reason why Window$ has held on as long or as strongly as it has considering the wide availability of other more stable, secure and free operating systems. Linux (and BSD) is an OS designed for functionality. Window$ is an OS designed for marketing.

Just my £0.02 worth.

 

[opp37]

o man so true Microsoft anything hacker heaven i wanted at one time a elaborate setup with a linux box controlling and distributing the internet i have router with firewall software firewall and still aint safe only somewhat safe i have is Firefox with all the addons scramble search engines and other crap on it but never sleep at the wheel or feel safe

i just wish there was something easy in between macs and all forms of linux confuse me

o well just stuck in the cow crap i guess

 

[Darth_vader]

Uhhh.....I wouldn't exactly call anything from Micro$pend "hacker heaven", due to "their" software's closed nature, overly draconian digital restriction management and other such problems by design. CRACKER-heaven, yeah, because of its brittleness and its many security flaws, but next to O$/X, Window$ is probably one of the most hacker-hostile platforms there is. It will probably only continue to become even more so as progress stumbles onward. Which is another good reason to avoid it....

What is it about Linux that's so confusing? If you know your way around Finder (pre-O$/X), then you at least know the basics of how to work GNOME enough to be productive, considering that the latter is basically a horribly p..s-poor reimplementation of the former.

Not that I would ever actually condone using Ubuntu, you can get a "live CD" image of it that you can boot your computer from, play around with it and practise a bit, and I think it might still be possible to get a distribution of Ubuntu with GNOME as its front-end. (That's another thing: avoid Unity. It's garbage, as well.) While live CDs are not a substitute for a proper hard drive installation, they are extremely useful for evaluating an operating system, evaluating the functions of its interface and learning how it all works without changing your machine's existing OS installation.

 

[KC4RAF]

Running Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit on my machine;

LOML has Win XP. Both are good OSs. The machine at where I use to work ran Linux. That is a cool OS and is rock steady. No BSOD, never used a virus software either...

 

[opp37]

the biggest problem i remember about Linux was one with the os interface i could never get network and other crap to connect it went to code programming i dont know Linux i was dos sys programmer it may be different but last i used and knew it looked like apple and windows but didnt auto detect stuff and i agree the more i learn about 7 and how to bypass the crap on it xp up to 7 are ok security just be careful i know some that run window naked no virus spy etc and dont have problems its sites emails and what you give out or get into that gets the system trashed only once since using this pc have i had spyware so bad it erased the whole list in system manager all gone complete relode i think i caused that one otherwise i cant remember the last virus spyware hijack anything so its not as bad as its rep but is a well known line that most hackers train and hack not to say they dont other ones

back when i was learning it was batch programs to loop reboot or if nasty format command mostly gags or leaving hi or faces on there pc now they are out to destroy and steal and all the mayhem they can cause man how fast it changes o another good prank tell the printer to spool and empty back when it was dot matrix

 

[Darth_vader]

So....if I'm understanding that huge unpunctuated run-on sentence/paragraph, the confusing part was not the user front-end but the hardware not automatically detecting, correct?

Most modern Linux distributions that are worth their salt do auto-detect hardware; I think it's been a standard part of the kernel for at least the last decade or so.

The real annoyance is finding a distribution that actually includes proprietary drivers, since some distributions (especially Debian) are so annoyingly anal-retentive about anything closed-source that they go to the extent of providing all-new reverse engineered drivers just to maintain compliance with their overly-broad "open source" philosophies. They do provide some compatibility; not nearly what one'd obtain if they were using "the real thing" but enough to get it running more or less satisfactorily. Most machines I've installed it on, though, have been completely self-configuring right off the CD and I've only encountered a couple cases of hardware not being supported by it at all (a couple PCI-bus softmodems which I didn't expect to work to begin with, and a 64-bit desktop with such a modern Ethernet chipset that there wasn't even a compatible generic driver available for it.)

Mint Linux, as I understand, does provide access to proprietary hardware drivers and was supposedly started in reaction to the aforementioned philosophies (despite ironically being Debian-based.)

Running Window$ on the network "naked" without an anti-crapware programme and firewall is like diving into a swimming pool full of used hypodermic needles--it's an invitation for trouble. There may not be problems *now*, but give it a couple days or so.

 

[opp37]

Running Window$ on the network "naked" without an anti-crapware programs and firewall is like diving into a swimming pool full of used hypodermic needles--it's an invitation for trouble. There may not be problems *now*, but give it a couple days or so.

no its a German guy i know been for years beats me not the way i run my system as much overkill as i can and avoid internet explorer or outlook

like i said before i run fire fox with almost all the security ad ons it has
except a few they jam to much but one really good one is called ghostery blocks lots of trackers and other crap i also have two search engine blockers

one you can see in the corner funny carp like it tells Google Chinese palace and other goofy crap

and i have face book and other phishing filters i haven't had much trouble like said before

a couple months ago is the first in years i have been hit

im just more of a windows person at least until they force all computers to go win 8 and above then i will happily jump on Linux and seems like that days coming fast

you cant buy name brand pcs as far as i know without 8 on it now days so i may be switching and learning real soon

 

[Darth_vader]

Huh. I'm guessing the German guy must be working through a hardware firewall/port blocker, or must have a pretty decent hosts file (if you need one, I have one I can send you) or both.

I'd hope (especially for M$' sake) that they won't be forcing 8 on everything and giving users the option to run 7 if they aren't doing that already, like what they did with XP during the whole Vi$ta disaster. Much as I can't stand 7, after seeing 8 in action (and having cried the couple times I actually had to try and use it), 7's actually quite an upgrade compared to the latter. They'd be wise to do that, given 8's thus-far horrible track record.

Supposedly it's possible to get (Allah help me) a Dell box with some hacked-up and heavily customised version of Ubuntu on it, but as I understand it's just one (business-oriented) model and it's really overpriced for what it is. It'd probably just be simpler to get a pile of computer parts off Amazon and build one, then put whichever OS you prefer on it then and there. Likely be a lot cheaper and more reliable than any Dell, too.

I jumped the Window$ ship when XP/SP2 was still current and haven't gone back. My one and only *X/*SD/WinDO$ multibooter has 3.11 (MeSsyDOS 6.22), 98 and NT 5 and that's it as far as that goes. Old tech, but at least that combination actually does what I need it to do (except run my RTL2832 SDR kit, but that's another thread entirely.)

 

[opp37]

it doesnt jam or stop broswer pages the wife uses this more than i do other wise yea i can never pass up more security

and yea the day is very close

this hp omni pc started with i forget what drivers on HP site point is had choices

now you Go to HP and all the sudden it nothing but windows 7 64 bit only before it had 64 and 32

if you go to any pc store at this currently locked in with 8 as you buy it dell hp e machine all

dell and custome buils beats me and i mean dell online dell stores 8

you can possibly get the serials and runn the site see if there are only 8 drivers

me im just going to try custom if i ever can afford a new pc and for them for driver for all like they would do that lmao

but yea every isle 8 8 8 8 thats made for kiddys and all those net site peopl

7 i have been accostumed to i agree vist was like the what was it windows me or something like that

and i only like 7 after i destroy it to the edg of os damage take ownership command put in the registry

great program ends thes new systems saying cant open no permission etc hit take ownership and its

yours baby sc# windows i do the one you can do without external software look up one called

winbubles since you seema real good user winbuble if used right tweaks and gives ne right clicks and

tools if you know what to touch and what not to you can use take ownership and win buble to make

yourself more happy with win 7 thats pretty much my secreat to makeing win 7 liveable and dealable

microsoft seems to own big names with how they force os and preload tons of trialware microsoft

sorry bad spellin no time to spell check bad storm got to shut down and unplug good talking to you

 

[Dude111]

what operateting systems do most of you like best

I love Win98se

 

[questnz]

Whats best, very subjective, everyone have their favorite OS. Best OS is the one of free of licensing, this makes Linux Ubuntu and Mint on top of the list. Run on anything, and most secure out of the box.
Windows 7 SP1 and fully updated is good as anything and secure with decent Security Suite, my personal preference is ESET Security 6, because is using next to nothing of the resources. You can't run Win 7 on old hardware either and the drivers will not fully support older chipsets. Anytime you run Window OS with full admin rights you are open to hackers. Setup standard user account and run every day stuff on it. HP, Acer are full of the crapware out of the box. Install Revo Uninstaller and remove all unnecessary pre installed software, your PC will start up 100 faster. Run CCleaner + Ccleaner Enhancer and remove rest of the garbage. Check your start up applications both CCleaner and Revo have the facility to do that or run msconfig manually and check and un tick some startup applications. Yes, you can make Windows OS run efficiently with little bit of an effort. My OS, Window 7 64 bit Ultimate on desktop, Win 7 Pro 64 bit on HP ProBook notebook, Linux Ubuntu and Win 8.1 preview on both run in VMWare or VMBox (free) 8 GB of RAM on both computers.
ps Get use to Win 8.1 Microsoft seems to be not backing down and just added Start option and make Win 8.1 more secure, no going back to Win XP or 7 stuff. Win XP and Office 2003 support and updates will end in April 2014.
My 2 cents added. For more professional and detailed advice please send me PM.
Regards Chris

 

[poltergeisty]

I like XP and have XP 64 on the desktop while the laptop is using Win 7 ultimate.