Windows XP and 10, XP for generally being a small OS whilst having long term support for it and just well working well for many years and 10 because Forza and DX12 and I guess maybe for being overall better than 8 (I liked 8/8.1)
What's your favorite operating system of all time and why?
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Windows XP for the UI, Win 2000 for the sound effects and windows 7 for the compatibility. However in recent years I have come to like macOS more due to its efficiency and performance on a hackintosh.
It's a tough battle between Windows XP and 7.
XP was fantastic for several reasons, if you take a look back nowadays you might find it primitive but back then it was a huge step forward in both user friendliness (compared to win9x) and features, bringing many of the ones introduced in win2000 from the pro market segment to the home one. Finally, once you'd install SP2 (or 3 later on) it would become even better, fixing many security bugs and also backporting some features from Vista.
7 on the other hand was pretty much what Vista should've been in the first place. It stepped up security while toning down UAC, which was crucial in ensuring that the OS was secure, and improved compatibility both hardware and older applications. Talking about hardware, advances in computing and better code optimization meant that it didn't take nearly as many system resources as Vista, so it felt quite snappy.
...In a nutshell, by heart I'd choose XP. But if I take the nostalgia glasses off I'd choose 7.
XP was fantastic for several reasons, if you take a look back nowadays you might find it primitive but back then it was a huge step forward in both user friendliness (compared to win9x) and features, bringing many of the ones introduced in win2000 from the pro market segment to the home one. Finally, once you'd install SP2 (or 3 later on) it would become even better, fixing many security bugs and also backporting some features from Vista.
7 on the other hand was pretty much what Vista should've been in the first place. It stepped up security while toning down UAC, which was crucial in ensuring that the OS was secure, and improved compatibility both hardware and older applications. Talking about hardware, advances in computing and better code optimization meant that it didn't take nearly as many system resources as Vista, so it felt quite snappy.
...In a nutshell, by heart I'd choose XP. But if I take the nostalgia glasses off I'd choose 7.
Honourable mention: Debian, easily my favourite Linux distro as it has the right amount of lightweightness and autoconfiguration, plus it literally supports every major microarchitecture available so it'll run on anything.
It's still very beta, but I'm sure it will be GuixSD when it's ready. For more basic tasks, I quite like OpenBSD. The most impressive overall is obviously TempleOS. RIP Terry.
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When i was young, i used for so many Linux Ubuntu from 9-12, to replace my old XP and later Vista with full of viruses.
It was fun and highly instructive learning a new to use a new "free"(back at time i didn't know what exact definition of free and open source) OS and tons of "free" programs, and for the 1st time in my i didn't need to find cracks/viruses to activate my winrar or NERO to burn isos for wii lul.
I still remember it had hard time to support STEAM when it was launched on Linux and i went through hell tried to install/compile xbox360 wireless receiver's driver but without luck, then i gave up entirely and came back to Windows 7.
It was fun and highly instructive learning a new to use a new "free"(back at time i didn't know what exact definition of free and open source) OS and tons of "free" programs, and for the 1st time in my i didn't need to find cracks/viruses to activate my winrar or NERO to burn isos for wii lul.
I still remember it had hard time to support STEAM when it was launched on Linux and i went through hell tried to install/compile xbox360 wireless receiver's driver but without luck, then i gave up entirely and came back to Windows 7.
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On desktop, Windows XP because nostalgia and also because I think it had (and still has) the best looks out of all Windows OSes. I've tried replicating its looks on Windows 10, but my experiments with Classic Shell have been buggy to say the least.
On mobile, it's Android, because it has the most freedom out of all the mobile OSes. Also, Material is bae.
On mobile, it's Android, because it has the most freedom out of all the mobile OSes. Also, Material is bae.
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