Favorite desktop os?

Hello Everyone,

What is your favorite desktop OS'? Mine personally are Windows 95 C, XP Sp2, and Mac OS 10.2...

By the way, I did not make this a poll because there are so many OS' to choose from...
EDIT: I mean Windows 95 C

Edited by tenjeangosi 2006-03-12 12:37 AM

My favorites are 1.)osx 10.3 2.)knoppix 3.)win95 osr2 4.)Macintosh system 6.0.8 5.)Wince 2.11 6.) Atari os 3.1

I liked 98 a lot better than 95, and XP was the first real improvement since 98. But I've never tried a Mac; maybe I should.

DSL (Damn Small Linux) Win XP, and best of all Win 98SE. other than that any linux OS.

xp & win2000 are ok

all other PC OS's suck in my (humble) experience (sorry)

I'd have to say Amiga OS 3.1, Apple ProDOS, Windows XP, OS X, and of course Windows CE.

Edited by alphacrumb 2006-03-12 2:43 AM

On my Toshiba desktop (133 MHZ/32 MB RAM/2 GIG HD) I had Windows 98 SE installed and stripped... I did not get many BSODs, but it was really slow and froze on me a few times.. Windows 95 (Original or A) worked pretty fast.. But, I just ordered WIndows 95 C on CD from eBay to use with Virtual PC 2004 on Windows XP Home Edition. Why 95? Well, I want to use it to boot in DOS to play all of my old DOS games (the easier way to use DOS ) and for syncing with my Velo on HPC Explorer 1.1...
EDIT: Alphacrumb: Do you mean Windows CE 3.0 x86 desktop? And, I do like your avatar

Edited by tenjeangosi 2006-03-12 2:35 AM

I meant the version of Windows CE in my daughter's Personal Internet Communicator--I bought it for her from eBay in December because I figured it would be a no-fuss machine (she's only 10 years old). It's fast, secure, silent, and just plain easy to set up. It's darn durable, too-my daughter accidently pulled it off her desk and on to the floor and it didn't miss a beat. It even came with Textmaker and Planmaker. I believe its Windows Mobile 5.



And thank-you for the compliment about my avatar. My daughter told me my old one wasn't "shiny" enough. Kids these days.

Edited by alphacrumb 2006-03-12 2:57 AM

Now I want one
EDIT: 90 USD on eBay is a great deal for it... Do you know if it can run normal ARM/XScale Apps?

Edited by tenjeangosi 2006-03-12 3:12 AM

You know, it's funny, but I've never tried installing any of my ARM or MIPS software on it. But I doubt they would run anyway--the PIC has an AMD processor in it.

From my (limited) experience with XScale, the AMD seems to be quite a bit faster. Of course, that might be because of the OS. In terms of the Softmaker software, they seem to run as fast as the XP versions I have--and that's on a AMD 2700+ Athlon!

The PIC definitely shows what Windows CE might have been like on a consumer HPC if HP or NEC hadn't stopped making them.

In any case, the PIC was originally conceived by AMD for Third World countries as a durable, low wattage PC alternative, which I think is a wonderful idea.

And my daughter thinks its cute.

EDIT: Yes, the eBay price is absolutely the way to go--Radio Shack sells PICs, too, but at more than twice the price!

Edited by alphacrumb 2006-03-12 3:48 AM

Well, I'd have to say Workbench 1.3 on my Amiga A1000. Ah, the good ol' days (especially of using "Say" or "Speak", I can't remember what it was named ).

I have my Windows 98se cd and key and that keep me going on my laptop and I have Windows XP Home on my desktop and that sucks big time. I have a new laptop with Windows XP Pro SP2 which is nice but I didn't get the activation key with this laptop so I can't upgrade hardware.

I have Windows 95b on a couple of old, small laptops. A little slow because the memory is limited to 16mb, but instant-on.

My tried and true OS is Windows 98se and I'm just waiting for Vista to come out, so hopefully the price of the XP Pro cds at Ebay comes down.

In this building I currently have installs of:

• Acorn ROM OS


• Caldera


• Itron


• Mandrake (forgot the ver)


• MS-DOS 3.0


• MS-DOS 6.20


• MS-DOS 6.22


• Windows 2.03


• Windows 2000 Professional


• Windows 2000 Standard Server


• Windows 2003 Standard Server


• Windows 3.10


• Windows 3.11


• Windows 95 RTM


• Windows 98 FE


• Windows 98 SE


• Windows CE 1.0, 2.0, 2.11, 3.00, 4.0, 4.2, 5.0


• Windows Millennium


• Windows NT 3.51 Workstation


• Windows NT 3.51 Server


• Windows NT 4.0 Workstation


• Windows NT 4.0 Server


• Windows XP Home


• Windows XP Pro


• Ubuntu 5.04


• ZipSlack

The simple answer to this question is "whichever does the job" is my favourite. Like withg the browsers, as far as I'm concerned; it's not about loyalty - it's about getting the Job done.

Is that DR-DOS? Or am I remembering wrong?

It is indeed