Your Favourate OS

No1Jew · Post by **No1Jew** » January 11th, 2009, 21:18

Just for interest. Not seen this posted before.

Post by **FatherJack** » January 11th, 2009, 21:29

Fista 64, with DX10 and >2GB RAM it's the gamer's choice, pity the game-makers don't seem to share that view. Luckily Win7 looks like it's keeping the things I like about Fista, but bringing back the things people liked about XP - I hope it stays that way, I was quite enthuasistic about NT5 until they split all the things I liked about it into the IE build and released the most-compromised server OS in the history of ever.

I'm only running the Win7 64-bit beta in a VM for now, but I'll have it as my second OS and gradually move to it when it's released. I did the same thing over two years from XP->Fista->Fista 64, and while the first transition was almost seamless, had to find a few workarounds for the second. I've never actually had a very stable XP build on this PC, so I don't miss it.

I don't much care about the actual OS and how it looks, as I spend very little time using it - it's just there in the background when I run games - my main requirements are stability and compatibility.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » January 11th, 2009, 21:34

XP Pro 32 for me, because it's just about the only one with which I have any significant experience. My earliest PC gaming days were all DOS-based, so no fond OS memories there.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » January 11th, 2009, 21:40

Win95 was the last time I remember having an MS OS that was stable, didn't need constant fucking about and ran everything I wanted it to. Win2K took effort, ME was fail, XP has taken years to get to a position where it'll run shit without dying, just in time for Fista, which has been utter fail, and now Windoze Yet-Another-Fucking-One.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 11th, 2009, 21:40

I take it this is more of a "what do you look back and remember fondly of" thread as a favourite rather than a "pick what you actually want to use" thread.

As I'm presuming the former, I'm voting Win 2000. Took the best bits of 98SE, combined with good bits of NT, and was Quite Good, even though I didn't clock that many hours on it. Liked 98 a lot though, install a few tweaks here and there and barring a couple of quirks and it's innate hate for PCI Modems, it was rather good.

XP Home is the OS I'm most comfortable with, personally I don't see much of a reason to upgrade to W7, I probably will do, but application wise currently I have no need.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » January 11th, 2009, 22:37

No penguins or fruit?

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 11th, 2009, 22:38

Zoiks, hammycheese, where you been chap?

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » January 11th, 2009, 23:08

I've let Real Life get the better of me.

Thought I'd pop in and see what was happening though.

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 11th, 2009, 23:16

Loes Cheesyham, how's the family?

I went for XP 32 because it's the OS I've used longest, but to be honest an OS is just a tool to me and I'm not sentimental about them. Although I do always try to make any new version of Windows look like Windows 98.

No option for Workbench? Real multitasking dontchaknow.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » January 11th, 2009, 23:33

Dog Pants wrote:Although I do always try to make any new version of Windows look like Windows 98.

*tries it in W7b*
OH GOD, MY EYES
Yes, it works. Could use a little tweaking though.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 11th, 2009, 23:53

cheeseandham wrote:No penguins or fruit?

I would add more options, but it won't let me.

Anyway, I don't really have favourites, best OS is the right tool for the job at the time

Outright stability has to be windows 2003 server, for its 4+ years service to 5punk with about 10 reboots needed.

General reliability with easy setup goes to XP pro 32.

amblin · Post by **amblin** » January 11th, 2009, 23:56

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » January 12th, 2009, 0:07

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Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » January 12th, 2009, 0:14

No entry for dos 6.0/6.22?

As pantsu said, XP is probably the OS i've used the most, but ther'll always be a soft spot in my heart for that lovely command prompt, which gave you direct access to all files WITH NO KISSY FACE ICONS IN THE WAY! Also MS-DOS was pretty much all there was when i started my PC gaming career.

Wing commander 1, leasure suit larry 1, Ultima VII. God those were the days!

(as an aside, is there still that win 3.11/dos standalone unit in the mauser bay at lossie? i had a hell of a shock when i was introduced to that thing! stupid Barrel measuring program!)

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » January 12th, 2009, 0:15

Dog Pants wrote:Loes Cheesyham, how's the family?

great ta. the boy gets entertained by the simplest things. so he's definitely mine

I went for XP 32 because thats when ms got it right imho. win95/98se started down the right road, but were baesed on dos, winnt took the right approach on that, but only office workedd on it

Win2k was close being the bastard child of both, but ui enhancements & firewall/security additions made xp the nuts, especially by sp2.

Dog Pants wrote:No option for Workbench? Real multitasking dontchaknow.

lol...
favourite os though, strange question.. kind of like "what's your favourite petrol?"

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » January 12th, 2009, 0:19

favorite petrol?

http://www.oil-shop-uk.co.uk/acatalog/Klotz_Leaded.html

113 octane racing fuel. a waste if you arent running enough compression to benefit, but anything that is will be MASSIVE SPEED!

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » January 12th, 2009, 0:21

Anhamgrimmar wrote:Wing commander 1

When I saw Wing Commander I realised that raw processing power of PC's were going to eat thhe Amiga for breakfast

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » January 12th, 2009, 0:22

amblin wrote:the lack of a decent start menu is a massive failing (again, xp wins)

Can I ask why you prefer the XP Start Menu? I never see mine these days.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » January 12th, 2009, 0:27

iirc in Fista you can change the start menu to xp or 2000 style.
i like the Fista start search bar/run box though

Post by **TezzRexx** » January 12th, 2009, 0:45

cheeseandham wrote:iirc in Fista you can change the start menu to xp or 2000 style.
i like the Fista start search bar/run box though

I also liked this

Dunno if it's retained in Windows 7