What is you favorite operating system?

[Whippopotamus]

Arch Linux all the way, when you install, it doesnt even have a GUI. Plus it's Packet Manager is called PacMan. XD

 

[Kenneth]

I won't wote, can't find TOS/GEM in the list :/

 

[riffz]

When I first got my laptop I hated Vista compared to XP, but once I upgraded to Windows 7 I quite liked it and it's now my preferred operating system.

 

[porkynator]

Slackware Linux
also Arch, recently...

 

[shelley]

It took a while to get everything working (mostly because my laptop's wireless card isn't supported by the default open source drivers), but I'm loving my lean mean Arch Linux install.

Surprised you didn't include Ubuntu on the poll. That seems to be the popular gateway distro for Linux newbies these days.

 

[AndyRoo789]

Well, I've only really tried Windows XP, Vista, and 7, but between the three, I must say I prefer Windows 7.

 

[ben1996123]

Win7. Only ever used XP vista (for a few weeks) and 7.

 

[notluK]

Windows 7. Though I really enjoy Ubuntu a lot.

I've dabbled with OSX a bit, and enjoy it, but I don't think I'm popular enough to use it in the long term. :3

 

[javirk]

I have tried Linux, Windows and Mac, and I hate windows, but the OS I like the most is Mac

 

[Bryan]

Other.

IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS or any of the previous versions as fully backwards compatible for the last 20 years). Runs on IBM mid-range computers, virus resistant and to my knowledge security has never been successfully hacked.

Great for business but the availability of games is lousy.

I've played Tetris on OS/400. And playing Quake on it I believe is possible.

 

[Forte]

Don't really mind anything recent

 

[Escher]

my favorite operating system is forte

 

[Ethan Rosen]

I was fortunate enough to get a CR48 (ChromeOS prototype device) from Google, and I've thoroughly enjoyed that for the last few weeks. If there isn't a very specific program that I need, I'm finding myself grabbing my CR48 far more than I'm using my laptop that has Win7/Ubuntu.

 

[Truncator]

XP.

 

[Flipper]

Other.

IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS or any of the previous versions as fully backwards compatible for the last 20 years). Runs on IBM mid-range computers, virus resistant and to my knowledge security has never been successfully hacked.

Great for business but the availability of games is lousy.

I've played Tetris on OS/400. And playing Quake on it I believe is possible.

I've also played Tetris as well as Space Invaders and a few other early Arcade Game rip-offs on OS/400 green screen (basically anything were the graphics could be replaced by patterns made up of text characters and usually created by bored in-house programmers).

I think games like Quake (and of course Doom which was the first to require IT departments to do serious amounts of "out of hours maintenance work") use the PC's OS and just utilise the AS/400 network for the PC's to communicate rather than running on the IBM OS.

 

[auscuber]

Mac.

 

[FoxWolf]

Depends on the task at hand:

Graphic design (Photoshop, renders, blender, etc.) - Mac OS
Gaming, browsing the net, etc. - Windows 7
Work/School realted, programming/etc. - Linux (Scientific Linux/RedHat/Fedora/Ubuntu)

 

[Bryan]

I've also played Tetris as well as Space Invaders and a few other early Arcade Game rip-offs on OS/400 green screen (basically anything were the graphics could be replaced by patterns made up of text characters and usually created by bored in-house programmers).

I think games like Quake (and of course Doom which was the first to require IT departments to do serious amounts of "out of hours maintenance work") use the PC's OS and just utilise the AS/400 network for the PC's to communicate rather than running on the IBM OS.

Nope. OS/400 supports X-Windows protocol through the PASE runtime, so anything you can compile for AIX, you can probably get to run on OS/400. You'll need some other PC to display the X-Windows, but that's no difference than running VNC or things like that.

 

[Flipper]

Nope. OS/400 supports X-Windows protocol through the PASE runtime, so anything you can compile for AIX, you can probably get to run on OS/400. You'll need some other PC to display the X-Windows, but that's no difference than running VNC or things like that.

I missed the BIG clue in your location.

I knew you could run AIX as a separate OS in a partition on the AS/400 (Power System or whatever the current term is) and that Quake could be compiled for that but never thought to try on OS/400. We had plenty of PC servers on the network the AS/400's were on so never had to be creative.

Has anyone tried it?

Do you think the game speed will suffer or be primarily down to the graphics processor in the PC?