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What is Your Fav OS of all time, Old or New. OS WARS!

Matek said:
BootCamp is nothing more than a wizard that helps you create a partition and get drivers for your laptop. Other then that Windows runs on your computer just like it does on any other machine with the same hardware. Leopard has nothing to do with it.
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Currently this wizard is part of Leopard, the fact that after using it for the first time you may not need it again doesn't mean it has nothing to do with it. Originally BootCamp was available before Leopard and was a little cumbersome to download it and set it up. When it was included in Leopard made things easier, therefore for users that like it simple this is a nice Leopard feature.
 
Im gonna get shot for this but windows xp. It was so cool as a kid to have my own account and password and unlike mac programs with windows you can figure things out with clicking around a whole bunch.
 
groovdudeyo said:
Im gonna get shot for this but windows xp. It was so cool as a kid to have my own account and password and unlike mac programs with windows you can figure things out with clicking around a whole bunch.
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Flashback to 1986: as a kid I had may own 3 1/2" floppy diskettes to play and set them up as I wanted to, and all the system and apps were very easy to work with, never needed an user manual or formal training. Was this XP? Wait...It's a Mac Plus...with Mac OS.
 
DR-DOS (back when MS-DOS was stodgy and you couldn't buy a retail copy, it added tons of features).

OS/2 2.0 (got my hands on a beta in 1991 and it blew my mind -- so much so that I applied for, and got, an internship during the launch). Preemptive multitasking, built-in support for DOS and Windows apps (gee kind of like Parallels/Fusion except built in), object oriented desktop -- IN NINETEEN-FRICKEN-NINETY-ONE. In many ways OSX/Win are still behind in features.

System 7.

Windows 2000 (this was when the NT family finally started to gel), it was rock solid.

OSX.
 
I would have to say System 7 or 7.1. It is the first OS I really liked and made me a Mac fan. I just do not recall which came with my IIvx in 1993.

Before that my experience was with DOS 3 to 6 and Windows 2 to 3.1 and of cource the Apple IIe in elementary school.
 
edesignuk said:
It's not perfect, but it is utterly flexible and compatible. I think that goes a long way.
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Isn't this something to do with drivers rather than the is itself?

As for my favourite OS, I like Leopard because it's the only Mac OS I've used extensively coming from Windows XP (which was problematic for me). I've tried the older Macs in elementary but I don't have a great memory of them.
 
From Microsoft: Windows XP SP3 32-bit
From Apple: Leopard
Linux Distro: Slackware, and Corell was pretty cool until it randomly disappeared... lol
 
started Life with DOS and windows 3.0. progressed through various windows versions and a dabble with assorted Linux flavours..

My favourite....

BeOS! I loved it, I even bought (and still have the Box) for BeOS 5 Pro..
Easy to install, turned my PC from a bit of a wimp into a super fast easy to use machine..

Who says printers didnt work? My Epson was fine.. but it was one of those systems where only well established hardware was compatible... ie if some one had bothered to write a driver for it... Mind you it used to be like that for Apple..
 
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