Your opinion on OSs

[peterwiehe]

Which OS.s (operating systems) do You consider a smootly-runnning, good-looking OS to develop artpieces (images, movies, music, games) on it?
(And it wouldn't hurt if it can be easily handled.)
[And yes, it is a matter of personal opinion!]

Kind regards
Peter Wiehe

[bloodline]

AROS

[blakespot]

I am quite a Mac OS X fan.  And a fan of its father, NeXTSTEP.


blakespot

[Blomberg]

Hmm, tough one.

I currently use Windows 2000 Pro, for lack of a better option.
There just isn't any other OS with support for the stuff I use for my music (HD-recording, midi sequencing, *good* virtual instruments), except maybe OSX, but I can't afford a proper Mac. Also, I play a few FPS games that just don't exist on other OS's.

I did run Mandrake Linux as my main OS for a few months, but I didn't make any music during that time, because of the crappy sound implementation.
Been meaning to dig into some BeOS music apps, just haven't really got around to it, because of some other apps I'm missing with that OS.

[Kees]

slap me all you want... XP works for me.

And .. it runs Startrek Armada  :-)

[dslcc]

Star Trek Armada rocks!

[Im>bE]

hard one. Hmmmm...

Currently I use Workbench3.9, in lack of a better choise.
There just are no other operating system with support for the stuff I use for my music (recording, midi, multiformat playback, tracking, etc), except maybe Linux. Also, I play a few FPS, RTS, TBS, RPG, PFG, and other games that just don't exist on other inferior OSes.

[shIva]

besides miggy os i prefer solaris, with gnome2.
very nice one ;-) imho it´ s the most stable os running on silicon.

[And yes, it is a matter of personal opinion!]

yes sir, very personal

[melott]

In my laymans opinion I would say AROS....
Right now AROS is in its infancy .. and the more
support it gets now the more it will get later.
I'm only guessing but I would think there is
enough of the OS written to work with and those
that are doing the writting would give any help
needed to get over the rough spots.
I personally want to see AROS go.

[Argo]

"Resistance if futile, You will be assimilated"

I feel like playing it now. later.

[spihunter]

I'm not a big fan these days but, BEOS was the smoothest OS that I ever used on x86 hardware. for multimedia stuff it was really nice. I ran it on my pentium 3 and it just flew!!. It was dual booting with win98 on the same machine. It was just amazing how much better BEOS ran on the same hardware as WIn98. Once again superior technology was destroyed by M$ :-x  :-x  :-x  :-x  :-x  :-x  :-x

[Trev]

Which OS.s (operating systems) do You consider a smootly-runnning, good-looking OS to develop artpieces (images, movies, music, games) on it?

Any operating system should be able to meet those requirements with the help of the right hardware vendor. I like Photoshop, After Effects, and Sound Forge running on an Intel motherboard and processor with Windows XP Professional. I also use AVISynth, which is only available for Windows (hence the AVI-ness of the name). Matrox makes nice video hardware, and of course, there's the NewTek VT[3].

Trev

[GreggBz]

Workbench 3.5 is zippy yes.
I use Windows 2000 Pro mostly now. Pretty stable and faily fast.  
I just installed Mandrake 9.0 Linux and man is it slow.
My turbo linux 6.0 installation was very fast compaired to this junk.
My mandrake 8.2 installation was mostly faster compaired to it..
what's the deal??

The worst operating system I ever used was probabbly Windows ME, followed closly by Geos on my Commadore 128.
Also, MS-DOS 4.0 was pretty horrible

[the_leander]

For picture creation... BeOS/Zeta - Refraction is a very nice smooth package in the style of Photogenics

For Multimedia playback I stick with BeOS/Zeta, But I would say that its creation tools suck big time, even the Amiga has a greater range of pro tools. That said though, it does offer some pretty fine development tools in the form of CodeLiege as well as other tools.

If you're going to go into music/video creation a lot I'd say go with Windows 2000pro or get a mac as they are really the only choices that are cost effective. And games... Sorry folks but I'd have to say Windows if you're after the latest and greatest....

Ease of use... BeOS/Zeta simply the slickest OS on X86 bar none.

[Dalamar]

Windows XP is my primary machine which is most unfortunate but it has all my software on it including games that are not available on anything but Windblows.  Besides, it makes me so happy when it tells me how I need to use it better with all it's helpful prompts and wizards.  I had no idea I was using  computers so incorrectly until XP came along and told me.   :-o

I use AmigaOS3.9 for whatever I can instead of using the "most helpful" XP.  I also use Gentoo Linux and Windows 2003 server for server side activities.  btw 2003 Server is also very helpful at identifying all the things I've been doing with servers incorrectly for all these years as well.   I like Gentoo because emerge is your friend and makes dependencies and such a snap.  Amiga is what I would call my "most fun" OS/computing platform and my true reason for loving computing.  If Microsoft was all I had, I'd be living in a hut on an island and would never touch the things.  

I believe I've stated that professionaly and personally Microsoft has removed all of the fun from computing for me.  This explains why I'm here.    :-D

I suppose I should add that I support Windows/Linux servers for a living. :oops: