What Operating System?

What Operating System?

Just curious.....

What OS do you folks use?

XP for me

For the record, its Linux for me.

Pig sick of the shit that comes with Windows these days!

Suse 9.1 is the distro of choice atm....!

XP for me like, ive never even heard of Linux ?:spangled:

tis easy to install these days mate!!!

if u think its a ball-ache to install now mate u shud av had a dabble a few years ago!!!!!!

have a look about on google for linux mate...its a whole new world!

i used to haev ME on one, XP on the other, now i have XP on both.

i have no music, pictures or videos, but i have xp on both.

problem with xp is, it rarely goes down, but when it goes down...it goes DOWN!

U really find it this difficult?!?!?

naaaa am on about way be4 that!!

think 1st i tried was slackware 2.6 pro - wowza!!!!! scarey shit!! had me beat for weeks but then sussed it...was alwatys problems configin vid cards!!!!!

slackware is the purists linux....hard work most of the time..

go with summit like suse 9.1, redhat 9 or mandrake 10...they nice n easy windows like ones..

am going slackware once i get back to grips with linux again tho...it is numero uno

if u want more of a headache......give BSD a go :laugh:

U mebbe unlucky there - u dont need to recompile the kernel mostly...cos newer kernel's have all required modules built in.

A few patched applied n ur sorted.

As for installin stuff - as long as u got all the pre-requisites (sp?!?!) such as compilers etc...its usually just a case of

extract the acrhive
cd to the directoty
./configure
make
make install

jobs a gud'un!

tis messy yeah - but for most stuff as well u can jus get rpm's.....no manual configuration needed really - pretty much self installers.....

its messy(ish) but not half as much as it used to be and its worth sticking at (i think...)

problem is we all too used to windows stuff!

use xp and lindows developer (rarely)

gotta say, as much as everyone hates the big M for what it does XP is like a rock.

fair do's my lindows partition NEVER fails, but it doesnt do much at the best of times anyway

Lindows?!?

Careful mate...u shud refer to it as Linspire now...otherwise M$ will sue ya!!!!!!!

Yeah lookin after stuff like thats a doddle in comparison

Call me a nerd but a love messin about with new stuff

oh yeah...

Exactly

Every man and his dog knows windows inside out - not as many *nix folk about in the uk

I use XP Professional

XP Pro at home and work. Windows is used by most people and companies at desktop level, it does it's job - whats the big deal!

I used to support Unix - but it's hard to use, configure and support. i want an easy life.

I prefer UNIX but have Xp on my work and home machine. My work machine has never crashed or hung etc. Very stable.