Only vote if you have tried more than one of the operating systems. Tell me which you think is better.

After trying them all, I find Linux to be the best for my personal uses.

i've used some of each..but for me, windows is the best. i pretty much just check out webpages or play video games on my computer..mess around with photoshop a bit too. if i had some other more involved needs from my os..i guess i would swich to some form of linux. if i got heavy into graphic design, i would consider a mac..but those are both ifs that are not realities, so i'm sticking with windows.

I cant get on with mac's, i havent tried Linux, windows works fine for me..

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A few months ago I tried out Linux. It couldn't do anything that I couldn't do on Windows, and the only way to play games was on Windows, so I stopped using Linux.

I think the mac commercials speak for themselves. All of you are fat, four-eyed nerds who want to be like us mac users.

OS X is way more stable of a system than XP. And if you want to argue with me, please don't use the fact that all games are made for PCs. It would be like arguing with me about automobiles and using the lack of a hydrolic system in my car as one of your major points. Have no interest.

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Mac OS X is amazing, I would chose that over windows and maybe even Linux anyday. But I'm not buying a new computer any time in the future. Buying an Apple is the only way to run Mac effiecently, right?

I'm not too sure, but I don't think so. I know I have the option to run XP on here if I wanted, but I don't think it's the other way around.

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I prefer Windows because it's more widely supported. Linux is secure but a bitch to configure. I'm not a good enough hacker to be running *nix. Unix by far is the most stable OS ever created. Mac OS is pimp as hell but not much support from 3rd party software vendors.

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I use Mac osx every single day. I voted for Windows.

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i'm a recent convert to mac. mac all the way!

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linux sucks. macos is the most solid, too bads about the compatability issue between windows and mac. mac much better for media.

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If i knew you in real life i would laugh at your statement, then punch you in the head.



All are great in various ways i see no point in this thread. Especially considering the maker is a minge fluffer.

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Windows is just the easiest to get along with for me, I've ued mac at college and it generally ended up with me being ejected from the computer room for swearing loudly.

hahaha

i found mac does everything i do on the PC better, easier and without so much rubbish popping up on the screen.

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Damn, and i thought my life was bad already. Now i find out no one cares for me on the internet .

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I guess I'm set in my ways now really, though i'd like to check out Linux sometime.

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Linux is known as the great incompatible poop chute.

its funny though, because both windows and max run linus under them so they can have something to fall onto when they crash. Prevents your computer from losing EVERYTHING... you just lose most of evrything now...


windows > mac for everything except for random artsy wanker things like photo/video/audio editing.

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that would be me..yet i still like windows more. i guess i am more used to windows..but my computer runs fine having ps and ill open along with plenty of other programs...so i see no benefit in having a mac.

Yeah. I think saying mac is "the best for media" is just pure he said she said crap. I heard that before and passed it on just like everybody else does.

Since i've been using it, every editing program i have runs horrible incomparison to its windows counter part. Nothing is smooth. But then again it could be the software. which just leads to saying that software for hte mac sucks ass. And this includes all the big name stuff. Photoshop, cubase etc.

I think i'd but much happier running adobe audition and photoshop on a windows than my macbook pro.

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windows supports the most virus's too


i've been using macs for my entire life. windows is pretty much shit.

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you are sitting pretty now..but believe me..as macs become more popular (as they have since the ipod) there will be more and more malicious software for them. the main reason there isn't already is because it was a waste of time to write something for macs before since only a small number of people used them. of course they'd want to make something to fuck with windows...everyone used, and pretty much still uses it.

Linux for me, although i have to use windows for Cubase, but when i get my mac for my course, i don't think i'll have a need for windows at all.

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Dude ive heard you complain alot about software not running on the mac. How old is your note book? I've seen people run that software smoothly on DESKTOPS.

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i used windows because im functionally illiterate towards computers, aside from assembling them which i am now learning.

but ideally linux is the way to go, but it takes understanding its open source nature. its actually compatible with anything, its just the burdens on you to create a program, or many programs that can configure/emulate other software programs and games. linux is an OS for people who are much more tech savvy.

i ran ubuntu for awhile and i liked, but its like learning an new instrument or speaking a new language, it takes years to truely utilize it and to start at the beginning now seems almost hopelessly complex.

so i may go back to the ubuntu because i like the concept of it.

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Brand new. Macbook pro with 2 gigs of kingston ram in it. Brand new being i got it right before fall semester.

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Took me about 3 hours to figure out alot about ubuntu, then one day to download and install Debian (pre-ubuntu and not shit), and about 10 minutes to integrate to Debian completely. It's fucking simple.

But as I need/want more softwares and shit that only works on windows I'll go with it as the best, running Linux was alot better for the daily things like surfing the internet and working though. I really wanted to get a macbook for school, but of course, it's too expensive (I lacked 900 nok, about 145 dollars for one, and also add that I needed a printer along with the laptop), so I could finally try Mac, but still I have never tried it so I will not judge it.

WHOEVER DOESN'T SUPPORT BILL GATES IS A FAG. LOL.

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Windows is okay. The latest WinXP isn't that unstable, and viruses and trojans etc. are only a problem if you're a dumbass. The basic idea behind windows is a coherent platform to do everything on. Since windows provides so much stuff in the OS itself and is closed in nature you only have one windowing system to choose from, one printing system, very few file systems, you have to trust device vendors who provide drivers, i.e. that they're stable, virus / trojan / rootkit / adware-free etc. The advantages of Windows doing "everything" is clear - applications look coherent and all have the same functions to use and don't have to adapt to several things, i.e. only one windowing system, one printing system, one file sharing protocol, if you have a web app you KNOW you can use IE API etc. Stuff work well together. There's no need to learn two things, there is only one. The disadvantages? Well, the closed-mindedness - there's no choice, only one way to do things, which can be somewhat crippling and also holds back innovation and development etc, this is like communist russia where you think you can do whatever the hell you want but if you do, some Government guy comes to eat you.

Now linux - everything is open and you have documentation to do everything, plus if you want to change ANYTHING you can do it rather easily. It's all about freedom of choice and freedom to do whatever the fuck you want - there's always someone who thinks he can write a better window manager than this other guy, a better printing system, a better file sharing protocol, a better image renderer etc. The disadvantage? Many things to learn, applications look different to a large degree, you have to configure many different tools that essentialy does the same thing just "different" and so on. The advantages should speak for themselves - this model naturally drives development as everything is open and you can adopt whatever feature you want, and if you come up with something neat, everyone can adopt it, it's a community so the developer gets credit and fame for what he did etc, the code is checked for any rootkits / adware or whatever so in effect it doesn't exist, etc. Other advantages is that in linux you can configure everything - i mean everything - the way you like it most, and you can do whatever you want. Like, on windows: "Access denied, cannot kill process" or whatever. That just doesn't happen here.

Also i very much prefer the Unix way of doing things - actually this is far more coherent than on windows. If i want something i know where to get it since it's standardized and people think following standards is cool. All my settings can be stored remote and fetched on logon etc in a very easy manner, it's all in my home directory (This is like C:\Documents and Settings\Username, just in a well thought out and time-proven manner that works excellent). If i want to get this or that info i just have to look it up in a central directory and not click around for ages, everything is a file so if i want to make an iso file i can just read the device file for the CDrom station etc and other neat things that are different between those two, like applications have a central directory for binaries, one for libraries, one for configuration, one for icons and sound files etc.. However, this is all subjective, though.. The shell is great and i can link apps together with pipes, redirect output etc, everything is very easily automatable while in windows you mostly need a separate program for everything you want to automate, in linux i can hack up a script in seconds to do the exact same thing.

What needs to be done is to find a balance between the extreme closedness and lack of choice and configurability in windows and the large inconsistencies in Linux.

I clicked linux.. this post is stupid

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I haven't tried Linux, but I prefer Windows over mac, simply because I know how to do stuff, and I like two mouse buttons. We mainly have Macs in the lab I work in, and it's a hassle trying to figure out how to do something that would take me 3 seconds on windows. I don't need an operating system that is flexible.

I have Windows on my laptop at home, and am generally more literate with it, but Quicktime is far and away best for video and Final Cut Pro is fantastic. I'll probably be going Mac at some point.

I know nothing about Linux, but if it's truly open source it probably rules balls.

Yeah linux is definately open source. Quicktime used to blow, but i just like its basicness.

And people really seem to enjoy Final Cut Pro, but i just can't get into it. The times that i did use it, it seemed highly buggy and featured no backup saving feature. Also if i remember correctly had lame export abilities. I just found Adobe Premiere to be anything and everything i could want, not to mention as "easy" or as "difficult" to use as i would ever need.

Also i think i really dispise mac because you have to buy an Mpeg2 codec to get mpeg2 movies to work on your computer. I've tried downloading them from all across the net to no avail. So i have to switch to windows just to view movies that i've created. (alwasy make them mpeg2)

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I've heard of buggy experiences with Final Cut Pro but, on several computers, never had a problem with it. The difference in cost between a version of Final Cut Pro and of Adobe capable of editing a feature film (and I'm talking an actual well-produced, well-edited, studio feature) is so large that I don't find talking about Adobe worthwhile. I've definitely had no problem with the export, either. In any case, FCP has worked for me for quite a few feature-length editing jobs without a problem, so I see no reason to be anything less than positive about it.

I might be biased towards Quicktime because of movie trailers.

I used all. Mac is my personal favorite. Especially for media

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I've only ever used Windows.

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Check out this verrsion of Linix.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS

Actually just took a look and i've been using Final Cut Express HD. Got it from my sisters boyfriend without even really paying attention. Hmm maybe i'll attempt to redownload it.

My friend uses it and he keeps putting his video clips into some random shitty quicktime format and its starting to piss me off. It has ugly compression and its not that compatible outside of viewing it. (as far as editing.)

Oh well some people just don't care enough about quality..

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have you ever used knoppix? i have an older version, and possibly the latest..they are pretty similar to that version you posted, only it doesn't use the usb drive to save your settings(edit...i guess i should mention that knoppix does not save any settings..its just a bootable cd.). knoppix is the only version i've ever used..and i mainly only used it when windows was all fucked up from time to time.

Nah, i haven't used it but windows is always fucked up

same.

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only old macs have the single click mouse. for the past few years its been this http://bounav.free.fr/mods/vintage_...ighty_mouse.jpg
360 scroll ball thing
left and right click
click the ball and widgets come up
and squeeze the side and go into expose mode which is a super sweet function.

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i've heard mixed things about them, that they break really easily, have stupid sensors and things like that.

besides, why not buy a nice USB mouse from microsoft and use that? right click works on them...

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mine works nicely

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Just checked, and you can export from FCP into an insanely detailed HD format. So your friend is a jackass.

the days of mac users sitting pretty from virus' and other fun stuff are numbered. not that this article is about a big attack..just that apple..and apple users are not as secure as they'd like to believe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6378765.stm

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