Your favourite OS?

[Seriel]

it isnt? i thought it was what the OS on a mac was.. so it would be called Mac OS right?

I think its OS X now.
(Never used it, just heard things)

 

[Muffins]

Hey guys, i have a question for the community Whats your favourite OS? Whether it be Windows, Mac OS x or Linux?
You can choose multiple (max of three though...) For example: my favourite OS is Windows 10, Linux Mint and windows 7

If Mac OS, Which version?
You have quite a few choices here.. it can be any version of Mac OS X or any Mac OS (1.0(if there is one...) to mac os 9.x), like the really old one that came on those old bubble IMacs

Honestly the only one i ever tried was Mac OS 8.. and this was in elementary school do i don't remember
but i remember the teachers constantly telling us to set it to 256 colours in the bottom toolbar
also, Make love, don't hate.. don't start a flame war...

In terms of pure simplicity, the OS you mentioned was amazing. You had an entire operating system that could boot a Mac with just TWO DAMN FILES (System and Finder) if you had a floppy and needed an emergency boot. That simplicity had severe problems though; the system wasn't set up for the modern advances computing went through in the 1990s, relying on small pieces called "Extensions" that you would stick into the computer and would run at boot. The sheer volume of these extensions could grow and grow and grow, each one making the system more and more unstable.

And when a pre-OSX Mac was unstable, each computing session was just a wait until the next crash. Since OS9 and below were all built on the basic foundations of the original 1984 Mac OS, it was designed at heart as a single user, single program environment. This meant that a mere program crash would cause the whole computer to come crashing down, and you would lose absolutely anything you hadn't saved. The dreaded "bomb icon" was the source of nightmares for Mac users of the day.

These days, as an OS I prefer Windows 10. It's fast, stable and modern.

 

[Deleted User]

I think its OS X now.
(Never used it, just heard things)

afaik the picture i linked is the Mac OS i was talking about.. Mac OS X is just the later versions of it...

 

[Hayleia]

If you hate 8 and 8.1 you'll like 10. It brings back a lot of 7 features while keeping a similar graphics style.

Maybe. I'm just not updating while I haven't finished my studies in Sweden because if I ever have problems, I'm screwed. I'll see when I'm back in France.

it isnt? i thought it was what the OS on a mac was.. so it would be called Mac OS right?

I think its OS X now.
(Never used it, just heard things)

Yes. It was Mac OS until Mac OS 9 in 2001, then it became Mac OS X (basically Mac OS 10 but with less characters) then they got lazy or realized they were just PCs and that "Mac" was unnecessary or something so they removed it from the name in 2012.

 

[Seriel]

afaik the picture i linked is the Mac OS i was talking about.. Mac OS X is just the later versions of it...

Bleh I dunno. I don't know anything about Mac. It's apple so my immediate response is "...no."
Don't be suprised if what I said is 100% bs.

 

[Muffins]

Bleh I dunno. I don't know anything about Mac. It's apple so my immediate response is "...no."
Don't be suprised if what I said is 100% bs.

The picture you linked is from the Classic Mac OS 8 (or 9, there weren't really any interface differences between the two).

the Classic Mac OS is the system from 9 to 1. I mentioned it before, but it has a code base that originated from the original 1984 Macintoshes and slowly evolved from there. However, the Classic OS was still unstable, relying on cooperative multitasking (which basically gave all programs full access to all RAM and told the programs to just get along). When they didn't, the whole system would crash.

OSX has the appearance of the Mac, but internally is completely different, using a code base that evolved from Unix and operates on pre-emptive multitasking. Basically programs (in theory) aren't supposed to be able to take down the entire system when they crash.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Pretty much already have a thread for this.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/linux-vs-windows-vs-mac-who-is-the-best.395320/

 

[Hayleia]

Pretty much already have a thread for this.

http://gbatemp.net/threads/linux-vs-windows-vs-mac-who-is-the-best.395320/

Pretty much but not really. The other one is pointless, asking "which is the best" about something that isn't a fact and obviously depends on opinions, while this one actually asks for opinions.

 

[Deleted member 370671]

For Windows, I would say 7. I'm not using Windows daily (only for games), but I hate the Windows 8 interface, and Vista runs like crap. Didn't tried 10 though, and apparently it's good, so maybe i'll install it.

For Mac OS, I've been using it since Mac OS 9, and I'm really hesitating on this one. I spent most of my time with Tiger and Snow Leopard, but Mavericks is good too. El Capitan is really nice, but uses so much RAM that I can barely do anything with my 4GB, and it is super slow to boot itself and launch apps. So I guess I'll just say Mavericks for optimisation (and design)

For Android... Maybe it's just me, but I never noticed any big difference between the versions
I'll say v4, since that's the version I used for a while.

For iOS, I've been using it since iOS 2, and I have big hesitations here. I love the good old GUI, but I really like how Apple improved the new UI with iOS 9 (iOS 7 and 8 were really bad imo). So I'll say iOS 5 for the classic interface (6 for devices with Retina) and iOS 9 for the new one

 

[DinohScene]

Xbox OS, the alpha one.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Pretty much but not really. The other one is pointless, asking "which is the best" about something that isn't a fact and obviously depends on opinions, while this one actually asks for opinions.

And if you read more than 1 post in the thread, you'd see everyone started stating opinions about their favorite OS :^)

 

[Foxi4]

On desktops my favourite OS right now is Windows 8.1 because I like being productive and getting stuff done with industry-leading applications (mostly unavailable on Linux and I won't use Mac on principle). I'm saying 8.1 and not 10 only because I don't have 10 yet - no time to upgrade.

On mobile my favourite OS was Windows Mobile 5 (and other CE-flavoured phone OS'es), but since it's discontinued in favour of the terrible Windows Phone, the next best thing is Android, for the same reason. That being said, all mobile OS'es at present suck, so I'm only picking Android because it sucks the least out of the big three.

 

[Deleted User]

Xbox OS, the alpha one.

the actual Xbox OS or a custom one that just has an xbox theme? o.O

 

[Hayleia]

And if you read more than 1 post in the thread, you'd see everyone started stating opinions about their favorite OS :^)

I has actually read the whole first page before posting. Now that you made me read it again, I still don't notice any opinion on that other thread before the 13th post. So if there is one useless thread, it's the other one.
Then you're going to say "yeah, if they were made at the same time ok, but since this one here came after the other one, it is basically a dup and is the useless one". Ok, then go tell the admins that we need the ability to change titles so the other thread can officially ask for opinions.

 

[vayanui8]

My favorite OS is windows 9

 

[RustInPeace]

Windows XP. Unlike Windows 10, I had next to no problems with it. Windows 7, if I used it a long time, I probably would've picked that.

 

[Jack_Sparrow]

Mac OSX Yosemite
Linux Mint
IOS Sucks no matter which version you're on
Android 6.0 Marshmallow

 

[DinohScene]

the actual Xbox OS or a custom one that just has an xbox theme? o.O

The Alpha ones, before the final dash.
Can't find it on YT atm.

 

[mgrev]

PC(by ranking):
Windows 7
Windows 10
Kali Linux/Ubuntu 14.10 (cant decide)

Phone(by ranking):
Cyanogenmod 13(android)
Cyanogenmod 12.1(android)
Cyanogenmod 12(android)

 

[Jayro]

Favorite Windows OS: Windows 10. It's been nothing but good to me.

Favorite Linux OS: Linux Mint (Cinnamon 64-bit). Very Windows-like, and great for noobies getting into Linux while being familiar with Windows layout.