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Choose your favorite OS - Pt. 2  

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  1. 1. Choose your favorite OS - Pt. 2

    • Windows 95/98/ME
      1
    • Windows NT/2000
      3
    • Windows XP
      18
    • Unix or Linux
      9
    • MacOS or MacOS X
      1
    • BeOS
      2
    • FreeBSD
      1
    • I'm waiting for Windows .NET
      2
    • It doesn't matter to me.
      2


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Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri

(what OS comes without a disk defragmenter, for god's sake? Especially one with an HDD as small as in the iMac; if hard drive space is at a premium it's a vital app, surely?).

One that doesn't use a fundamentally broken file system?

 

Why support an OS with less compatability and less stability?

I've never experienced any stability problems, but let's assume I have, for the sake of discussion. Is rock-hard stability really such a high priority? If my system goes down once a month, I don't really mind. On the other hand, OS X provides a much better UI, which is what you're dealing with constantly, and that's very important; I'd argue it's the most important property of a desktop operating system.

 

What else do you want in an OS?

A nice GUI, good developer support, a good shell, compatibility with Unix applications, etc.

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Originally posted by phubuh

One that doesn't use a fundamentally broken file system?

 

So what you're saying is

 

Disks become fragmented because they use NTFS.

 

Right.

 

ps.

 

The UI is very good in XP, I find.

 

And if I want to run unix applications I'll use RedHat, ta.

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The linux operating system's file allocation system automatically places the empty file fragment at the end of the table, as Windows 9x's kernel doesn't re-allocate it's files, which allows for more portability(makes it so win9x can use the same drivers for a number of HDDs. Linux may be a bit harder to set up than windows, but if you want an efficient system, *nix is the only ones left.

 

Win2k is also nice, but still doesn't allocate the file fragments as well as linux/BSD.

 

Oh, and to clear this up. Darwin(OS X) isn't as Unix-based as people claim. The kernel uses BSD objects, but it's process handler is still Apple-based, which defeats the whole purpose of using Unix's file system.

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