Favourite OS's

[uncle mark]

Windows 2000 Pro, Mepis, MX.

We are kindred spirits. The last Windows OS I used on my personal kit was W2K. I made Mepis my default home OS with v6.5. I then went with M8 (still with the beloved KDE3), followed by M11. I briefly went with Mint KDE after M11 no long would function properly with later web requirements until MX offered a KDE version. Have been running MX 19 KDE since it was offered and have no need or desire to change.

[thomasl]

Apple ][ DOS, no contest.

A little later CP/M-80 mostly because it ran WordStar and supported my Epson dot matrix printer.

Best Windows was 2K Pro though XP wasn't too bad either.

My experience with Linuxes is minimal (I liked earlier CentOS versions), so MX is an easy win there.

[Eadwine Rose]

Windows 2000 Pro, Mepis, MX.

We are kindred spirits. The last Windows OS I used on my personal kit was W2K. I made Mepis my default home OS with v6.5. I then went with M8 (still with the beloved KDE3), followed by M11. I briefly went with Mint KDE after M11 no long would function properly with later web requirements until MX offered a KDE version. Have been running MX 19 KDE since it was offered and have no need or desire to change.

I was the same with Windows. That version worked fine for me, NEVER felt the need to upgrade beyond that. I remember living with friends at the time, and he upgraded to XP, the latest greatest, he HAD to have it. One day I was quietly working on whatever it was I worked on, when I hear this ice-cold piercing scream come from the attic where he was at, followed with a "Nooooooooo".

It blue screened in the middle of a large piece of his coding. Felt for him, oh yeah. Chuckled internally, too.

[anticapitalista]

MEPIS 3.4.3 version (I ran this for many years as a rolling sid version and it never broke).
Feather linux
antiX

[uncle mark]

MEPIS 3.4.3 version (I ran this for many years as a rolling sid version and it never broke).
Feather linux
antiX

Mepis 3.4.3 was the first Linux I was ever able to run consistently without it breaking or me breaking it accidentally. It was also the first Linux I was ever able to get connected wirelessly. That was a spiritual experience.

[richb]

MEPIS 3.4.3 - solid with no issues
Xandros - I had to compile it, Ran without any problems.
And of course MX from the beginning of its life.

[chrispop99]

Sinclair Spectrum Basic (in 1982), AmigaOS, Mepis.

Chris

[Old Giza]

RSTS/E

[AK-47]

OS/2 Warp. But I really liked Windows NT and Windows 2000. The BSDs (especially OpenBSD) are also nice (better design than crusty old Linux).

Actually I remember a fun bug in the installer for OS/2 Warp 3.0, which wouldn't have been picked up back then since 2GB disks weren't invented yet. If you tried installing to a partition between 2-4GB, 6-8GB, 10-12GB, 14-16GB, etc. you'd get an error saying that the partition doesn't have enough disk space. I suspect they decided signed 32-bit integers would be fine, so the aforementioned forbidden partition sizes would be considered as negative disk sizes. Up to 2GB, 4-6GB, 8-10GB, 12-14GB, 16-18GB, etc. were all good. Much playing around with the installer's partition allocator on my monster multi-billion byte hard drive, and also it needs an 8MB boot manager partition at the very start. Forward thinking in a nutshell.

[manyroads]

==> Burroughs Series-L (1974-1977)
==> UNIS (Univac) (1977-1981)
==> Vax/VMS, DEC10, PDP:RSTS (1981-1994)
==> Linux (numerous distros); (1994-today)