What sort of an OS do you recommend?
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
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cout<<"I love programming.";
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}Except if the OS does a really poor job at its tasks, nobody care about the OS. What matter is the application which run on top of it, most importantly the application I/you/the users are using. exemple: once in my foolish childhood I was set on using FreeBSD, and one day I though: who care: it's .NET developement which is fun, even more so with VisualStudio. Why do I care about FreeBSD?
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
} -
A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}64 bit Gentoo linux.
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}I think you should use the OS thats best for you. For me personally Windows does everything I want it to, it doesn't crash because I know about quality hardware and drivers and it doesn't run slowly because I dont go to questionable websites and run anything and everything. Again for me personally Linux isn't a good route, it'd require me relearning many things, spending alot of time experminting and messing around getting everything work how I'd like and most likly I'd end up in a mess. Now this doesn't say much about either OS, both have good points and bad points. All it says is what I'm more comfortable with, and thats the point I'm tyring to make. (Yeah I know theres more than just Windows and Linux in the world :P)
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}Hamed Mosavi wrote:
What sort of an OS do you recommend?
It depends on the need. There isn't one magical OS that's best at everything because it's impossible for the OS designers to dream up every possible application that some end user is going to need that OS for - and that's the beauty of having options. Every OS - Windows, OSX, *nix, whatever - has it's own advantages and disadvantages that make them all suited for different tasks and make each of them the best OS at something. Which is the best for you depends entirely on you needs.
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}Hamed Mosavi wrote:
What sort of an OS do you recommend?
For what purpose?
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}If you want to try a really small lightweight OS that you can build yourself in Visual Studio you might want to look at SanOS[^] I've never actually tried to run it because I don't have a spare PC where I can afford to risk messing with Boot sectors and the like but the code itself is quite impressive. It might inspire you to be the next Linus.:)
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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Hamed Mosavi wrote:
What sort of an OS do you recommend?
For what purpose?
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
For what purpose?
Every day use of a programmer, including: Programming (mostly with almost a large set of tools and softwares) Reading books and articles (chm, pdf, ...) Managing files Web surfing Downloading and uploading files Typing some letters or other texts Listening to musics Downloading Translating with a dictionary for non-English guys like me! Watching movies (rarely, but it happens) Instant messaging ... :)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
} -
If you want to try a really small lightweight OS that you can build yourself in Visual Studio you might want to look at SanOS[^] I've never actually tried to run it because I don't have a spare PC where I can afford to risk messing with Boot sectors and the like but the code itself is quite impressive. It might inspire you to be the next Linus.:)
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
I don't have a spare PC where I can afford to risk messing with Boot sectors and the like
What about a virtual PC like: VMWare or MS VirtualPC.
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
It might inspire you to be the next Linus
Wow. That's like a big dream, or as people say in English: Too good to be true :)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
} -
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
For what purpose?
Every day use of a programmer, including: Programming (mostly with almost a large set of tools and softwares) Reading books and articles (chm, pdf, ...) Managing files Web surfing Downloading and uploading files Typing some letters or other texts Listening to musics Downloading Translating with a dictionary for non-English guys like me! Watching movies (rarely, but it happens) Instant messaging ... :)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}Basically a combination of a workstation and home machine :) I would say either Vista or Mac (if you are buying a new machine as well).
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
} -
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
I don't have a spare PC where I can afford to risk messing with Boot sectors and the like
What about a virtual PC like: VMWare or MS VirtualPC.
Matthew Faithfull wrote:
It might inspire you to be the next Linus
Wow. That's like a big dream, or as people say in English: Too good to be true :)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}You'd have to check the SanOS site to see if the first time boot instructions can be tranferred to a Virtual PC but in principle it should work. When I looked at SanOS I had no Virtual PC experience so I never thought of it. I still don't have VPC software at home. I guess you may need Virtual Floppy Drive software as well to create an install disk image. I don't know if the SanOS code itself does any low level cleverness that might cause fatal rejection by the Virtual PC runtime.:~ The only way to find out is to try it. Enjoy :-D
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}I've used them all mostly.. mac os10 vista xp 2000 susie red hat but... once you use something for awhile you get used to it, ive got used to them mostly (some are easier than others) depends what you want to do? but for a general purpose machine which you dont want to maintain to much or be to much of a geek to use go with XP - does everything you want doesnt require a super computer(like vista). leave vista to mature a little, if your a bit of a geek then best bet is to try the others for a month, see if it does what you want etc. p.s make your own mind up is often best ;) cost more money and time true but you learn a lot :) pp.s windows 2000 = dead
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Since when "Apple" is an OS?
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}Hamed Mosavi wrote:
A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy
"Professional" and "eye candy" don't go together, they should be mutually exclusive. Leave the "eye candy" at home; at the office I don't want to waste any clock cycles and other resources on crap like animation, themes, visual styles, whatever.
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A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
} -
A professional looking full featured OS like Vista with a lot of eye candy and built in softwares, or a quick light weight OS(For example consider Microsoft creates one.) or anything else? Which one do you recommend? Does experience affect your idea? (my idea: Working with computers, I first was interested with good looking softwares(either OS's), but nowadays I recommend more speed and more functionality. If I was not too lazy and I was not addicted to my Windows applications, I would quickly select a version of Linux, learn how to compile it to remove unnecessary services and have a fast little OS.)
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni
while (I'm_alive)
{
cout<<"I love programming.";
}MS-DOS... Yeah, pain and suffering, that's the ticket ;)
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Since when "Apple" is an OS?
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki