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My preferred OS is?

Please post your reasoning here as well.
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Re: My preferred OS is?

Despite mistakenly selecting the wrong option accidentially, I defenitely prefer Windows. Well- Xp.

Why? Hang me if I'm a frog in a well, but I'm just too filled with inertia to check and see if I can run all my favorite apps (plus what I'd accuire) in ubuntu, which BTW, I've been eyeing for quite a while.
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Ubuntu is great, so is OSX. I still prefer Windoze though.

(not Vista though )
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The geek in me prefers linux but the community at large necessitates windoze.
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Windows gives me my living, but it stops me not from LOATHing it.

Mac OS X, while it has a really nice, and polished interface, it has a lot of things that urk me on the background, such is the fact that they are still using ipfw, and just the whole non-polished backside is just gaaah, hard to work with...!?

So i choose linux, while there are plenty of things that urk me about linux, it's an awesome 1/2 way point. It has nice interfaces, tho i never use them, but it does not match OS X's interface, not quite, relativistically close, but not quite there; though it beats any windows interface by miles, too (and dont give me vista BS, vista interface sucks as much as XP does). But, the back end of Linux is a lot more polished then Mac OS, no random /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0, just nice and polished /dev/sda1, also i prefer iptables over ipfw, it has a bunch more features, and to me, anyways, an easier way to interface with it... Hell of a lot more stable then windows, very customizeable, and edges out OS X by just a little bit (and dont get me wrong, i love my mac)
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I'm a gamer and love having new 'toys' as early as possible, so I prefer Windows. Although I run it on Mac hardware
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Having used a Mac system from day one and being ridiculed for using a mouse and having 4megs of RAM (Why would you need all that?) Then being frustrated by the clunkyness of PCs.( eg Why can't you call a file what you want to call it? ).

Now I have used Windows 9pro) for three years and it amazes me that Microsoft could have ripped off so much of the Mac system without paying for it.
I would not bother upgrading.

My continual winges and whines about Windows have resulted in a new second hand Mac as yet not set up to the net. The OSX is a little different to what I am used to but still it is more intuitive and elegant than windows.

The Win files translate beautify, seamless to the Mac but not always the other way round.

However the differences between the two systems is probably fairly small. (I still need to play more on the new Mac)
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Re: My preferred OS is?

Except I'm not allowed by the market to prefer it!

I'd prefer not to,
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Re: My preferred OS is?

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Except I'm not allowed by the market to prefer it!
you crack me up

So are you a mac user, in the closet?
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