Favourite OS's

[NickStone]

Just for a bit 0of fun, what are your favourite operating systems that you really enjoyed using in the past or present day. For me it was DOS and Windows 95.

[siamhie]

In the past, it was Slackware. After dealing with the dependencies from hell issues with RedHat (prior to Fedora) and S.U.S.E. (prior to OpenSUSE) I learned a lot from configuring/maintaining Slackware.

[pianokeyjoe]

My favorite OS's from the past were: SuSE Linux and Redhat Linux, Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP pro SP2 heavily modified(nLited slimmed down and embedded). The present is MX LINUX 19.4 and AVL-MXE 19.4 based(both very customized for my application and tastes).

[j2mcgreg]

Mx and its forerunner, Mepis. Both of which always just worked. Microsoft's products were always a necessary evil: you had to use them because that's what your employer provided.

[Gaer Boy]

MX currently. OS/2 in the past - far superior to the early Windows versions. It also had the best word processor I've used - DeScribe, later ported to Windows and I went on using it until about 2000.

[Bamber]

From all I used my favourite was Windows Vista.

[Eadwine Rose]

Windows 2000 Pro, Mepis, MX.

[8bit]

Another vote for OS/2, BeOS, anything that was different and doomed to d̶i̶e̶ fade away. Litestep on W9x http://www.litestep.net/ was a lot of fun.

[seaken64]

My favorite was DOS. I was a small business user so I liked the office app support at that time. I was not a programmer or gamer or scientist or academic so had little exposure to other OS's like Unix or early Linux. But I did like CP/M at the time. There was also Apple DOS and TRS-DOS and some other proprietary OS's that were competing with MS-DOS/PC-DOS for small business or enterprise users. But I liked the simplicity of DOS at the time and it was easy for me to implement on my own without having to hire IT professionals.

If software today still supported DOS I would still use it. But for most of my small business apps I adopted Windows since about Windows 98SE and 2000.

For my personal use I now prefer Linux. My favorite used to be Slackware but then I found antiX and now my favorite is antiX and MX. But I still play with DOS almost every day as a retro computing enthusiast.

Seaken64

[LU344928]

... OS/2 in the past - far superior to the early Windows versions.

Which was much to the chagrin of Microsoft:

Beyond PR paid by Microsoft, there was a considerable effort using Microsoft employees who "participated" in on-line discussion groups, usually without admitting they were Microsoft employees.

The most famous "participation" case was the "Barkto incident". A person calling himself Steve Barkto appeared in OS/2 discussion groups claiming to be a big IBM customer in Oklahoma who had adopted OS/2. Barkto had nothing good to say about OS/2 or IBM, and many of the things he said were outright lies. His posting was traced back to an account that was paid for by the credit card of Rick Segal, a high Microsoft executive.

Microsoft the Company - The House Monopoly Built, by Andrew Grygus