So Macintosh ,Windows or linux wich is your favorite?

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I overreacted :/

 

Mac all the way. Moved on to Osx when I got my iPhone 3GS as Linux wouldn't support it. Never really looked back. Ive got a 2009 Mac Mini and since Leopard it just gets better for me. After Mountain Lion I properly have to get a new Mini but I cant complain the only issue i had was with a drive crash. Not bad for £500.

 

Love how easily "which console/os is better" threads can turn into flamewars XD

 

Tell me about it.

 

8 years already? I still remember when I first got my iBook G4 all those years ago, first laptop I owned too.

 

I used OSX for a while, dont know what all the fuzz is about. Sure the whole aqua stuff was really cool back in 2001 when most still had Win98, but today? BFD

Plus I hate being forced into buying an overpriced repackaged wintel made by the cheapest OEM out there (foxconn). At least powermacs had 100% custom hardware.

Lately I been using Linux a lot for development, got Kubuntu and it runs crazy-fast! even on my old backup laptop! and no it doesnt looks like shit

Problem is Ruby sucks on Windows, every 5min I get a warning that this or that gem is -nix only, meaning the whole app only runs on a -nix machine.

For almost everything else, Windows: like it or not it is the standard, and being a power-user for over 10 years I'm not in the mood to throw all that away and learn everything from scratch.

 

I used to have Ubuntu instead of Kubuntu, but unity truly ruined that for me, and I really hate that canonical shipped 11 without a package manager!

You literally have to install it from the software store, which btw blows chunks.

Mint is ok, I had 11 but it was waaaaay too buggy, got tons of problems with the windows manager.

The worst part is that I might have to switch back to ubuntu since kubuntu is getting the axe. Fortunately I might be able to avoid unity by installing Cinnamon, but given that it was made by the mint guys I'm getting the feeling that it will as unstable as mint, or that modded 11 with gnome2 instead of 3

 

Install a different desktop environment man.

 

I already tried that gnome2 mod for ubuntu and it was very unstable, and as I said I dont know if cinnamon is stable enough.

 

Mod? Im unsure if you're just using the wrong terminology but heres a tut for a real installation of GNOME2

Open Terminal and type "

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

"

Then log out and click the "gear" icon and select GNOME. If it runs poorly you should probably select GNOME classic or GNOME without effects.

 

OK fork, whatever, my point is that gnome2 version of oneiric was unstable, and I can't waste time tuning every detail.

 

You are talking about MATE, which is the Gnome2 fork. I am just bloody waiting for the Linux Mint 12 LXDE to come out.

 

I've never heard of GNOME2 being unstable on 11.10 That's what everybody at /g/ switched to as soon as 11.10 dropped with Unity. If you ever feel compelled to again do a fresh install and install it as I said and if its still unstable the instability may be with your hardware.

 

I used to be a hardcore Windows user until I tried out Linux and it really changed my computing experience. It was everything I wanted an OS to be and if I wasn't happy I could just customise it exactly the way I like it. I've used Linux for gaming (World of Warcraft, Shank, Defcon, Bit Trip Runner, etc), server, and just general desktop use. I even installed Linux on my computers at work. Lots of co-workers see how customisable it is and always ask what OS I am running. When they find out it's Linux, they seem rather impressed that it's not this mysterious "boogie" monster people seem to make it out to be. It's not really harder to use, just different and requires a willingness to change. Of course the best part of it all, it's totally free.

I use Ubuntu mostly as my primary distribution and I must agree that I'm not a total fan of Unity. However true to the Linux way, installing some other interface like Gnome Shell 3 is just a simple mouse-click (Or if you prefer - Command line) away. Heck, if you want to turn your Linux desktop into something like a Mac or Windows, it's just a mouse-click away too. Just pick your packages, hit install, and go get a coffee. Easy as pie.

 

I use Kubuntu as main OS. There's still a copy of WinXP on one of HDDs but it's probably dead after hardware upgrade, and i haven't tried to boot it - last time i used windows was like 3 years ago, when it was required for some electronics development software. Then linux version of that software was released and XP was buried and forgotten.
Sometimes i play games, native or wine, and 80% of them run smoothly, without any problem, but of course i'm retro/emulator gamer, i played only about 5-6 of new games in last 5 years.

Best part is stability and flexibility, you can make your system look and work as you want it. And there's zero chance of some user level application crashing your system. Even if it crash X server you can always do remote login and type sudo killall -9 Xorg. As for windows software - i don't use any kind of games/software with invasive rootkit-like DRM, if there's a crack, i'll crack it to remove that s**t. if there's none - i won't use it. For software without DRM wine compatibility is already between 70 and 90%. There's even some advantage over native windows system - when you need to use some hacks and tricks, for example to run some old software you can just make separate copy of wine and run stuff with WINEPREFIX=/blah/blah /blah/blah/bin/wine lalala.exe also you can use this trick in case of regression in newer version.

In fact many things are easier, also if you have new PC with empty hard drive, you just boot from dvd, click "next" a few times, set some stuff like main language and keyboard layout, click next and get a cup of tea, in a few minutes you'll get a fully working system with office software, multimedia players and many other things, ready to use as is, unlike windows when you need to install a lot of additional software before it will be useful.
Software repositories are the best thing in unix systems, you can install and remove lot of stuff with a few clicks or simple command line, unlike installer hell in windows.
Also there's no nasty registry thing that grows every time you install something and within a few years will make your system crawl or simply crash.
It doesn't matter how many config files you have in your home directory or /etc, unless you'll hit file system limit which is only a theoretical possibility
For macs, well OS X is good, but hardware is overpriced.

 

If you are asking my favorite among these three, it's obvious that it will be Linux. But sincerely I find that there are much better operating systems. I use NetBSD on my main machine since mid-2009 and I have never looked back. The one or two Linux closed-source programs I use I can run them under "Linux emulation".I like QNX, AmigaOS and BeOS as well.The only real advantage that Linux has over BSD is versatility, which BSD sorely lacks.And while Windows or OSX might be your favourite, it is undeniable how very disconnected they are to where the real work is being done(TM), and how little control you have over your system and I'm not talking about source code... they have a system in place in order to not make you modify the system.

 

I use Windows 7 and Linux at home. We have Macs at work so I had to get to know OSX. Don't know what the fuss is about, don't like the GUI but at least it's got a terminal
My favourite one was Windows but know I find myself spending more and more time in Linux. I love the prospect of learning a new command, it never really gets boring, and there is so much to learn.

 

My current favorite is Win 7 ( I say that while typing on a MBP running 10.7). OS X has it's positives and negatives, mostly negative for me but I got the laptop for free so tough to complain. My desktop runs Win 7 and I love it, no issues at all with anything and all the software I use is Windows based so it really makes sense.

While in college I ran Gentoo Linux, that would have to be my all time favorite, but I don't see myself going back anytime soon.

 

Linux would be my favorite, Windows comes close in second due to some applications I use that only work on...you guess it... Windows...

OSX being on dirt level for me because of work flow retarded-ness and the absolute dumbed down interface that makes me rage ( wont go any further because I don't feel like picking fights with mac power users )

 

*stands up like a meerkat*