What is your main OS?

[whabang]

At work:
Windows XP, mainly because I don't have a choise. I doubt the IT-department would let me go back to Win2k.

At home:
Windows XP and Mandrake 10.
My girlfriend would not approve anything else! :-D
I am learning a bit of Linux though, and I'm considering to switch once I know it good enough.

[CU_AMiGA]

What is so good about Windows2K? I always thought that WindowsXP was far more reliable and compatible.

-Edit-

I use WindowsXP at college, we had Windows2K last year. I seem to like WindowsXP better.

[HopperJF]

Hi CU_AMiGA

Panther was released in December 2003, but the next version will be TIGER due for shipping in early 2005. If you visit the Apple site you will see it has sh*tloads of new features and so on that should give Longhorn a swift kick up the ass... although the sweet thing is Apple may even have 10.5 out (successor to Tiger) before Longhorn!

[whabang]

According to my own experience, the main difference between a fully patched 2k-system and an XP-system, is the lack of eye-candy in 2k. This makes the OS a little more resoponsive.

[HopperJF]

XP compatibility is a joke for older software and hardware. You need to patch like feck.. lol. I prefer Win 98SE any day.. although it doesn't bother me anymore. I never have to touch Windows, in fact I gave my PC to my parents the Mac is all I need now  :-)

[Gopal]

@home

1: AmigaOS 4 (dev-pre)
2: It feels like the AmigaOS I allways wanted.
3: Time will tell

@work

1a: Win2k/XP on client
2a: Mac hardware is too expensive
3a: Sure

1b: Linux on server
2b: It performs better than win2003 server for our use.
3b: Noo

[Noster]

Hi,

1. - Internet & mail, programming, office (wherever possible): AmigaOS 3.9 BB2
   - Gaming, office (wherever I have no adequate Amiga program): Windoof 98 (it's quite safer than XP and doesn't requires such a hardware overkill)
   - Firewall & router, mail/print/file/time - server: Debian Linux (486DX2/66 :-D)

2. I try to use the OS that is best for my needs, I'm very familiar with AmigaOS, it is small, very fast, and safe

3. AmigaOS 4.0, when it will be released for CyberstormPPC or if I have the money to buy a micro-ATX AmigaOne.

Noster

[NicoPPC]

1. MorphOS:
2. Fast, responsive. Nice Apps like ANR, SongPlayer. Can do what I want (MPlayer, SimpleMail, AmIRC...) almost (no Papyrus yet).
3. no.

[HopperJF]

I thought Papyrus was now shipping for MorphOS?

[NicoPPC]

HopperJF wrote:
I thought Papyrus was now shipping for MorphOS?

It's not on my desk yet.

[haymiggan]

1. AOS3.9 for everything except for schoolwork,priting, scanning, netbanking and the occasional divx showing, where i must use WinXP, which i have no problems using! But enjoy using amiga more...

2. Good looking - very customizable.
No hidden stuff in OS.
Fast filehandling together with opus 5.82.
No spyware, addware,annoying .exe programs vira/hack
Most essential tools and utilities present for every-day use.
Classic WHDLOAD games are currently the only stuff i play.

3. OS X or OS4

[Holley]

1. Windows XP

2. Because thats what I need for work

3. Not unless I get a job as a Unix admin or something ...

I do, however, use OS3.9 quite a lot, mostly to run ArtEffect 4 which is now my graphics program of choice :-) Plus any game playing I do is on Amiga ATM too, the xBox has been relegated! :-D

[ikir]

1.OS4 but also i love MacOSX and a lot of other OSes.
2.It is simple, fassssst, sexy, i find it "naturally". Also i can make the things i do for work with OS4.
3.No, but i use also other OSes, i would love to have a new Mac.

I use Win200 at work.

[B00tDisk]

WinXP+SP2.  Stable, fast, easy to use, more backwards-compatible with older games than Win2k (f'rex, I installed WC: Kilrathi Saga on this system which my 2k box flatly refused to even attempt...)

Overall, I like it just fine, MS corporate attitude aside.  If THIS was the Windows that'd been released in 1995, I think history would've been a bit kinder to MS...! :-)

Would I switch to a different OS entirely...?  Not sure: depends on the OS, depends on what's available for it.  Currently my needs are: games (particularly first-person shooters and flight sims, and there's not a huge amount of the latter on consoles so don't tell me "just get a console for games!"), video capture and DVD authoring, some home accounting work, surfing the web, working on my web-page with a nice WYSIWYG editor, and writing.

While I could do 80% of that on the Mac, it's just not the platform for up-to-date games, and I don't like the closed architecture.  Besides, if I wanted Linux, I'd buy Linux.

I could do about 30% of what I want on the new Amiga.  Given that it's only 30% and the cost of getting an Amiga that would even come CLOSE to my current system specs is VERY high, I don't see myself making a switch.  The A1 (and any other amiga-like systems) are currently "would be nice" but way, way out of reach price-wise.

[kvasarnomad]

1 Linux
2 Because it makes me feel superior to all others :-D , joking really because I think its good when your a programmer and I hate Windoze :pissed: and Windows-Games :oops: (not all of    
  them)

3 Maybe to some other Unix OS or maybe my own one :-D  

[Holley]

If WindowsXP had been released in 1995 MS would have gone under - people didn't mind getting 16Mb of ram for Win95, but 256Mb?? (I paid about £400 for 32Mb of ram at about that time) ... but thats history now ;-)