Operating System talk

I wanted to continue my Ubuntu talk with Glame from a topic in General, without spamming up the board, so here we go. What OS do you use and why?

I personally use Kubuntu, Ubuntu with KDE in place of Gnome.

• Virus proof
  
• Package manager
  
• Free (Speech and beer)
  
• Speed
  

(I'll add more when I'm not tired)

For any community members, check out http://whylinuxisbetter.net/ and http://www.ubuntu.com/

OSX because I enjoy stability and attractive UI.

windows xp.
why:
[insert all games compatible with it]

DucTape wrote:I wanted to continue my Ubuntu talk with Glame from a topic in General, without spamming up the board, so here we go. What OS do you use and why?

I personally use Kubuntu, Ubuntu with KDE in place of Gnome.

• Virus proof
  
• Package manager
  
• Free (Speech and beer)
  
• Speed
  

(I'll add more when I'm not tired)

For any community members, check out http://whylinuxisbetter.net/ and http://www.ubuntu.com/

Kubuntu is far from virus proof, there are many virus's for all linux distros. No operating system is virus proof, but linux and max both being Unix are close to it.

I use Mac OSX. Never gotten a virus, ever. Also there is close to none crapware for Mac, along with a high amount of open source software.

Also Coda > any other text editor, you all just have to be jealous.

Lawly wrote:

Kubuntu is far from virus proof, there are many virus's for all linux distros. No operating system is virus proof, but linux and max both being Unix are close to it.

I use Mac OSX. Never gotten a virus, ever. Also there is close to none crapware for Mac, along with a high amount of open source software.

Also Coda > any other text editor, you all just have to be jealous.

Ok, NEARLY virus proof. Only a few viruses have been written for Linux, and most have been contained in the lab and patched.

Check out puppy linux, I just switched and it uses the same repo as ubuntu and can install .deb files.

Ubuntu seems laggy compared to puppy.

GLAMEOW wrote:Check out puppy linux, I just switched and it uses the same repo as ubuntu and can install .deb files.

Ubuntu seems laggy compared to puppy.

I've used it a little, more of a portable system than anything else. And my system is plenty powerful, if I was that concerned with speed I wouldn't be running KDE.

Gamee wrote:OSX because I enjoy stability and attractive UI.

Lawly wrote:I use Mac OSX. Never gotten a virus, ever. Also there is close to none crapware for Mac, along with a high amount of open source software.

+INFINITY! Mac OSX is the best, by far.

There have been no publicly reported virus for Mac OSX.
"few" is relative to your personal experience obviously. There are allot of virus's for linux.

Lawly wrote:There have been no publicly reported virus for Mac OSX.
"few" is relative to your personal experience obviously. There are allot of virus's for linux.

Few viruses that go unpatched for a few days.

DucTape wrote:

Lawly wrote:There have been no publicly reported virus for Mac OSX.
"few" is relative to your personal experience obviously. There are allot of virus's for linux.

Few viruses that go unpatched for a few days.

False.

I should point out "few" is relative.
Windows has had over 1 million viruses (of course many are currently ineffective), Linux has only had under 1000 (many of which are also ineffective).

i be a 1337 |/\|00|3 and use a window... like 2003 gateway. because i save up for XboX when i get a good report cards. Im happy because i has AVG Free

swamp-cecil wrote:i be a 1337 |/\|00|3 and use a window... like 2003 gateway. because i save up for XboX when i get a good report cards. Im happy because i has AVG Free

I didn't understand half of the things you just said. Please explain.

KingNickolas wrote:

swamp-cecil wrote:i be a 1337 |/\|00|3 and use a window... like 2003 gateway. because i save up for XboX when i get a good report cards. Im happy because i has AVG Free

I didn't understand half of the things you just said. Please explain.

i use an old windows model, becauseim saving up for an XboX and add-on stuff. i also need to get good report card marks.

KingNickolas wrote:

swamp-cecil wrote:I claim ironically to be "leet", despite the fact I use an operating system from 2003 on a machine manufactured by Gateway Computers. The reason I use outdated hardware is because I want to save money to purchase a Xbox gaming console, as soon as my parent(s) allow me to, on account of my grades. I'm perfectly fine, as far as viruses go, because I have free antivirus software.

I didn't understand half of the things you just said. Please explain.

Done

Thanks. And lol.
I heard that a cheap xbox arcade is like 300 bucks. Good luck.

KingNickolas wrote:Thanks. And lol.
I heard that a cheap xbox arcade is like 300 bucks. Good luck.

Thats about right. I got one for £120 (New) with game and controller

DucTape wrote:I should point out "few" is relative.
Windows has had over 1 million viruses (of course many are currently ineffective), Linux has only had under 1000 (many of which are also ineffective).

Also false.

I must point out to you that while Linux is open source and free and community driven and what not, its not perfect. There are still major flaws with every version of nix. Mostly because its not being driven by people hurrying things along because there is a company to run.

Lawly wrote:
Also false.

I must point out to you that while Linux is open source and free and community driven and what not, its not perfect. There are still major flaws with every version of nix. Mostly because its not being driven by people hurrying things along because there is a company to run.

Most of my windows boxes have become useless within 6 months, while my *nix boxes have always stayed at the same speed.

If a user does not go clicking on every executable package on a *nix system, things will stay fine, like in OSX.

OSX is heavily based on BSD, which can be haxed just like any other system out there.

the trick is to find an OS that has the right balance of security features and usability.

on a side noite:

Puppy linux is a portable system and it's very prone to fucking itself in the ass when the power goes out on a HDD install.

I'll prolly be moving it to a flash drive.

Lawly wrote:

DucTape wrote:I should point out "few" is relative.
Windows has had over 1 million viruses (of course many are currently ineffective), Linux has only had under 1000 (many of which are also ineffective).

Also false.

I must point out to you that while Linux is open source and free and community driven and what not, its not perfect. There are still major flaws with every version of nix. Mostly because its not being driven by people hurrying things along because there is a company to run.

Flaws, yes, viruses, no. It might rash on you, depending on what kind of distro you use, but there are still very few viruses. The last estimate I saw was 800 something.

DucTape wrote:

Lawly wrote:

DucTape wrote:I should point out "few" is relative.
Windows has had over 1 million viruses (of course many are currently ineffective), Linux has only had under 1000 (many of which are also ineffective).

Also false.

I must point out to you that while Linux is open source and free and community driven and what not, its not perfect. There are still major flaws with every version of nix. Mostly because its not being driven by people hurrying things along because there is a company to run.

Flaws, yes, viruses, no. It might rash on you, depending on what kind of distro you use, but there are still very few viruses. The last estimate I saw was 800 something.

Flaws yes, viruses yes. Get off of your high horse. You don't conform to the community and installed Linux. Good job. Congradufuckinglations.

I will not have you try to feed me some sort of operating system basted nationality of propaganda about any nix. There are 800 known that they haven't fix the flaws to end. There are countless thousands, if not more, that the community as a hole does not know about.

Lawly wrote:
Flaws yes, viruses yes. Get off of your high horse. You don't conform to the community and installed Linux. Good job. Congradufuckinglations.

I will not have you try to feed me some sort of operating system basted nationality of propaganda about any nix. There are 800 known that they haven't fix the flaws to end. There are countless thousands, if not more, that the community as a hole does not know about.

I wouldn't saw thousands, but I'm sure there are quite a few floating around, haunting miscellaneous repositories and storing themselves in third party deb packages, just relativity few compared to Windows, which I'm sure also has more than we all know about.

This is turning into a FLAME war, can we please lock soon?

watch it lawly