There should be a warning label on Linux

[ElPolloDiabl]

I was on Vista for awhile but it kept taking up chunks of memory and eventually requiring a reboot. It was an OEM version so maybe it wasn't as good as the retail. The feedback on Windows 7 has got me interested, but I'm not forking out 200 bucks for it.
I dumped Kubuntu, it was too buggy and I will go back to Ubuntu, that is very stable.

[DavidF215]

Solaris kinda-fanboi reporting in.  I dabbled in Linux in my earlier days.  Did some VAX/VMS.  Got thrown to Solaris around 2.4 and have not looked back since.  I rather enjoy it, though its future is a little hazy under Oracle.  Back when Solaris 8 was still the big thing, and Solaris 9 dropped x86 support (no, wait, we were only joking,) Sun released Gnome and KDE packages.  I installed both and far preferred Gnome over KDE.  Anything over the CDE built in, even with its nostalgia value.

I had been exclusively command line in Solaris 10, though I did a recent VirtualBox installation of 10 with the Gnome desktop.  Still seems pretty sharp to me.

I had Solaris x86 installed years back. The x86 version had not been out very long, and it took an effort to get it running. I eventually abandoned Solaris x86 for BeOS. Not the same class, but I liked BeOS. Then Be went under; pitty.

I used OpenSuse Linux for quite some after BeOS and after abandoning Fedora. I still prefer OpenSuse more than other Linux distros. A company I worked for used OpenSuse in production for data processing. It ran alongside AIX and HP UX. Cheaper, too.

I thought about giving OpenSolaris a try, but I haven't yet. Recently bought a used Mac mini with Apple Unix, so now we are giving it a test drive. My "Apple honeymoon" is over since I discovered it doesn't multitask as well as I expected. I was ripping one of my music CDs and the multitasking slowed down more than I expected.

[stefcep2]

KDE 3.5 was fine.  KDE 4 is not.

I use Ubuntu 9.04.  I heard too many bad things about the 10.04 LTS version, so I'm sticking with 9.04 for as long as they support it.  

I recently realised my xD-card reader doesn't work.  But everything else does, which is half the battle with Linux.

It does some funny things-like wiping menu.1st after a kernel update from the official repo, even when I select it not to touch menu.1st.  It boots and shuts down as fast as Win 7 ( I dual boot).  

Not sure if its gnome or the linux task scheduler or the fact that the GUI is just dressing on top of the command line she, but the GUI does have an annoying "stickyness" and "delay" about it.  

It serves its purpose as a comms and media viewing OS, and video encoding machine.  Nothing fun about using it though.

[stefcep2]

Someone should license AmigaDOS and make an X Window manager which is as simple, elegant, intuitive, and resource-thrifty as AmigaDOS on (free)Unix. ....

It was my  perception that thats exactly what Jim Collas had in mind all those years ago.

[LoadWB]

I had Solaris x86 installed years back. The x86 version had not been out very long, and it took an effort to get it running.

My biggest gripe about Solaris is that officially supported hardware in the HCL is all old and mostly discontinued -- especially RAID controllers.  Now, there are a number of unofficially supported devices in the list.

I understand OpenSolaris is pretty good, especially in terms of hardware support.  I am going to look into it.  My primary server is about eight years old running Solaris 8 x86 and it is past time for a replacement.  I would love to build a multi-proc/core system with a good SATA RAID controller to run a number of zones.  I figure either Solaris or OpenSolaris will do the trick.