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The "name your OS" thread.

What the hell, the idea was made and I'll run with it. I didn't include any "soon-to-be" options, desires are irrelevent.

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Kinda limited in the choices though. I'm currently running WinMe on this machine and Linux on my other desktop and my laptop (not to mention Qnix on my Audrey). Should I vote for highest total processor speed in a particular OS, or total weight of computers + monitors?

"...desires are irrelevent."

Tell that to a three year old!

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Should I vote for highest total processor speed in a particular OS, or total weight of computers + monitors?

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"name your OS"

I named mine "Horatio"; does that count?

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What if you use more than one?

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I think you should vote for the one that crashes the least, can I retract my vote for Windows?

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Is this a name your favourite OS, or name the OS that people make you use most.

As for favourite OS, mine is NeXTSTEP. Haven't encountered anything that comes close to it, for ease of use and application development.

Windoze I only use because other people make me.

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NeXTSTEP is an OS now?!?!

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Name the OS you use the most. Should've put that at the beginning - can y'all f'give me?

bobbymike, I've tried [telling that to a 3 year old]. I've had more fun having dental work done. I just keep telling myself that I'm the parent.

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Is this a name your favourite OS, or name the OS that people make you use most.

As for favourite OS, mine is NeXTSTEP. Haven't encountered anything that comes close to it, for ease of use and application development.

Windoze I only use because other people make me.

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Hmm, I have a hard choice between Linux and Windows; in the end I voted Windows since it's the one I'm usually using natively on whatever computer I'm physically sitting at... but I use Linux extensively at work and at home for its rock-solid web/mail/file server capabilities. At work I'm usually logged into one of several Linux boxen either via telnet or X, or directly logged into the Linux virtual machine I have running under Windows NT. Or better yet, telneting to another Linux box while logged into the VM.

At home I'm usually logged into my old Pentium 200/RedHat box which serves as firewall/samba/apache/etc server. I'll be ditching Windows at home just as soon as I can afford a Ti Powerbook. In the meantime I'll suffer with WindowsME and an occaisional session in KDE 2.2 under Mandrake 8, which lives on a separate partition from WinME.

<petpeeve>I would actually use KDE a whole lot more if somebody would implement some usable word wrap functionality; all the text editors seem to use core KDE functions for their editing preferences, and there's no way to do 'virtual wrapping' to keep the editor window from sidescrolling; if you do specify 'Word Wrap', it physically inserts a newline character after 80 columns - this can cause problems when you're trying to write code.</petpeeve>

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"...desires are irrelevent."

Tell that to a three year old!

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Heh, one of many reasons I don't (and won't) have one.

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Um, where's PALM OS???? Believe it or not, I use it the most.

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Um, where's PALM OS????

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NeXTSTEP is an OS now?!?!

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It wasn't before?

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NeXTSTEP is an OS now?!?!

Ark.

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I'm going to vote for Linux 'cause I enjoy using it so much more. I only use WinMe 'cause I have to (for now).

D-R, does reminding yourself that you're the parent work for you? It didn't work for me at 2AM this morning when Martin wanted to sing "Shine Jesus, Shine".

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