Best Operating System

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Hi guys just wanted to know what you lot thought was the best operating system at the moment and what are your reasons behind your choice.

I ask this because I have recently upgraded to Vista but I think I am going to go back to XP.
 
Personally (and I realise I am sounding like an long playing record) I was shocked to find out how good Ubuntu was recently.

But I had to solve two technical issues myself (wireless and sound) and although I *was* able to solve them, it did take a bit of effort on my part.

Other than that, an excellent operating system, and I saved about £90 because it is free.

Installed Wine to run windows programs.

Depends how technical you are really...
 
Vista. Although the improvements to the user experience is debatable, under the hood it is very very impressive indeed and has laid the foundation for another decade of Windows. I can't think of any OS with a more elegant design than NT 6.0 and that's what 'sold' it to me.
 
Vista :) As said its much improved under the hood, and it just feels a whole lot better and polished than XP. The only real issue at present are the drivers, but that situation will improve rapidly over the next few months.
 
Vista, very impressive all round. Some drivers are an issue (my printer driver will not be ready until March) but as modo77 said these will improve dramatically over the coming months.
 
I do like Vista but I when I install my Radeon 9700 pro driver the pc shutsdown randomly, I have downloaded the latest Vista drivers from the ATI site but still no joy, I have had to delete the drivers and just run the video card on windows standard drivers but my games dont runs that good.
 
Well have to say on my PC its dualbooting, and I havent really used vista too much, but then I am still waiting for decent graphics drivers and sound drivers for vista.

Which means waiting for creative and Nvidia to actually release stable decent drivers.

Meantime I have XP to fall back on.
 
Xp still good but remember it usual secuirty hotfix every monthly as tomorrow it will be new 12 fix patch for XP and Office 2003 (Vista will get SP1 this year) and the 64-bits will get full support drivers include software games soon (I already got all hardwares driver for 64-bits as it worked prefer) - I only wait for new ATi Radeon X2400XTX that will come up in April-May that included DX10 support. Im still used Vista Ultimate X64 and Office 2007 Pro
 
Vista - It's better than XP.

Personally I've not had any driver issues and I'm running an X-Fi and X1800XT.

not had any problems with it (32bit at the moment, will put 64bit on when it's matured a bit and there's actually a fair bit of 64bit software and some good drivers) and it's more secure than XP and looks better.

£65 well spent.
 
Well I cant get a few things to run on Vista yet, but I am using an 8800GTX.
What does run does not run as good as it does in XP. I am convinced it is graphics driver issues rather than vista issues. Although thats why I am dualbooting at the moment.
 
Well I cannot pick a best operating system overall, I don't believe anyone can. As a server Windows XP/Vista sucks as it was not built to do it. As a user friendly, hassle free, home everyday use OS Linux sucks, Windows would be my choice in this area.

For just running a computer, for games, for ease of use Windows is by far the best operating system.

For software development, security, for the ability to customize to suite your needs, or just for fun. Linux BSD tops here! (Arch Linux specifically)

For server, well I haven't dabbled in enough server OS's to make a judgment here.
 
Windows XP.

I've never used Mac OS, so can't speak for that, but I've installed Ubuntu (couldn't see my drives on my RAID card, even though the Live CD version could), SUSE (can't see the sound card on my tablet PC, nor can I use the tablet pen touch screen features) Windows 2000, ME, 98SE, 98, 95 and 3.11 (and a smidgeon of MSDOS).

XP is the most driver friendly, device friendly, game friendly OS that I've ever used.

Of course I've been using XP for longer than any of the others, so I'm probably a bit biased.

I'm holding off on Vista until the price comes down a bit and Creative release some proper X-Fi drivers.


That said, the thrill I got when I set up Kubuntu on my brother's Shuttle and got wireless working was quite awesome.
 
I would say currently XP is due to all the driver support etc. However, Vista is far superior in most ways and just lacks driver support. I would recommend Vista although be prepared to wait a month or two before you'll get the most out of it.
 
DOS 6 and Windows 3.11 :) That had the 'True' 'WOW' factor for me, not Vista :)

But seriously, I dual boot with XP Pro and Vista Ultimate at the moment, and though I like Vista, I will wait some time to use it fully, untill some decent drivers mature for it. But as it stands right this minute, XP is the bee's knees, untill said drivers appear for Vista.
 
Exactly, developers need to start making some proper drivers! Thing is, this is Windows so I can't see anyone dragging their heels too much. It will damage companies reps if they don't bring out drivers soon so I'm sure behind the scenes a lot of work is being done... I hope.

On another note... I've not had any auto Vista updates for ages, do you think they are holding back? I have a suspicion that they're not updating bits of Vista in incremental stages to avoid bad press from MS haters, "OH MY, NEW OS NEEDS LOADS OF UPDATES TO WORK!!! VISTA IS HASHED TOGETHER AND NOT FINISHED!!!". I would have thought they would be constantly updating since release unless they're trying to avoid this scenario??

I'm expecting a semi large single update soon with a lot of fixes..
 
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Rebelius said:
Vista - It's better than XP.

Personally I've not had any driver issues and I'm running an X-Fi and X1800XT.

not had any problems with it (32bit at the moment, will put 64bit on when it's matured a bit and there's actually a fair bit of 64bit software and some good drivers) and it's more secure than XP and looks better.

£65 well spent.
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£65 Sunds cheep what version is that.
 
This is a very open ended question, it depends on the application.

If I just wan a nice OS for web browsing, occasional photo and movie editing and wanted it to look pretty, i;d probably choose OSX.

It also depends on the machine in question.

Too many variables to get a straight answer form me.

Burnsy
 
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