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[ReekenX]

Hi there :)

I want to ask you: what is your favorite OS (Operating System)? For example mine Debian linux (easy to use, install).

[John]

I like Ubuntu.

[v0id]

I like Ubuntu, too.

[ReekenX]

And why?

[WingedPanther]

I'm torn. I like Linux, but I have a lot of Windows games. It's been a while since I played with Linux, so I haven't tested how well wine handles running them.

[v0id]

There's also great games to Linux. Personally, I like Sauerbraten.

[John]

WingedPanther said:

I'm torn. I like Linux, but I have a lot of Windows games. It's been a while since I played with Linux, so I haven't tested how well wine handles running them.

I have the same problem, but I have a PC dedicated to gaming which runs Vista - and my laptop which is dedicated to doing work which runs Ubuntu.

[WingedPanther]

I've heard about Transgaming over the years, but haven't been interested in buying software for a free OS so I can play games I bought. Fortunately, StarCraft and WarCraft 3 play well on wine :)

[G_Morgan]

Right now I prefer Linux (Ubuntu I'm using mainly) but would prefer BSD or Solaris if the hardware and software support was as good as Linux*. Basically though Unix >>>>>>>> Windows. I despise programming in Windows, it's like everything is set up to get in your way. There is the MS way of doing things and every thing else is resisted at every turn and it drives me nuts. Other than that Win32 sucks.

*simply put, Linux has been giving me some stability issues recently. There are some defects in the IDE stack that are prone to regression, mostly you can get away with it but my laptop tends to fall foul of later kernels.

[tovaritsh]

I use windows since I have used it since Windows 2.0 (which was total crap), 3.11 was better but still crap.
95 had really nice and fast GUI, too bad they didn't stick on it, 98 GUI integrated Iexploder and was too slow.

I think NT4.0 still has the 95 GUI, which would be great to put on Windows XP but then most of the IE component dependent programs would stop working. Thats bad.

Anyways, I use windows XP now and Im not planning to move to Vista.
This is propably the last windows I will use, maybe ReactOS will be a good alternative when XP is too old to use?

[G_Morgan]

ReactOS is actually behind Wine in Linux AFAIK. You can get most applications to run to a usable extent in Linux these days. Since Google got involved Wine has improved dramatically.