which is the best OS?

Answer 1

I personally think Windows 2000 is the best for a computer at Work. Especially if you have a lot of users who share the network.

For home and personal use, I prefer Windows XP Pro because it has a nice user friendly and familiar interface and the security is always improving.

Answer 2

There is many varieties of Operating Systems, such as Red Hat, Gentoo, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows etc. Windows is a good choice if you play alot of games, but Mac OS X is a good, secure OS better than Windows. I suggest you Wait for Windows Vista to be released. Or Wait for Mac OS X Leopard. :D

Answer 3

SunOS 4.1.3 was the best OS around. Sun decided to drop BSD in favor of SysV with Solaris. It was painful, as Solaris 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 were all useless piles of junk. It was not until 1.3 + jumbo patch bundle that Solaris became viable. Solaris 1.4 was a joke, but Solaris 1.5 started showing the potential that Sun wanted. This "learning curve" was VERY painful to the admins that had to manage Sun systems during this period. Many wondered WHY didn't they just improve upon 4.1.3. There are some features of Solaris that are not so great. What the heck is /etc/dfs, and why does it only exist in Solaris? Why does HP and IBM have some nice applications for network installing, and sun has a slapped together, NFS mounted, script-based garbage like jumpstart? Where is the Sun equivilent of SAM or SMIT? Therein lies the real "problem" with Solaris - All other vendors make (GUI) admin application tools to help with ordinary, everyday tasks. Sun's entire existence has been to make little command-line tools that YOU incorporate into YOUR scripts. This made things very nice and flexible for system admins, but makes it quite difficult for non-admins. Even Linux distros are further along than Solaris with their admin tools (DrakX with Mandriva, Y@st from SuSE). Sun needs a paradigm shift to start making these applications - and I don't really see it happening today. Until Sun makes some of these changes, Solaris will have the best POTENTIAL of any OS around.

Answer 4

it all depends what you want in a op\system
for all round reliability,it has to be windows xp pro,for many reasons
1.plug+play connectivity,you can plug a printer in and 10 seconds later ,its installed and ready to use
2.service pack 2....this update has changed the way we look at internet and desktop security,making sure we stay safe
3.updates....more updates than any other op\system(95,98,me updates stopped in june this year)
linux is not bad but is limited to what you can do with it,mainly because there are so many flavors(different types of linux)
mac os....windows closest competitor,a very good operating system,but totally different to windows in every sense,different interfaces,and different processor needed(you cannot load a mac os onto a pentium or amd based pc,they use g2,g3,type chips
stick to windows xp/vista when avalible as microsoft have 95% of the market,some people think this is wrong but until there is another decent o\s ,thats the way it will stay
answer-windows xp pro
good luck

Answer 5

the best FOR ME is windows 98 as this is the OS that has the least bugs. almost half of the computers in the world still uses 98 i have a lot of friends who still uses them, me myself have a dual boot os 98 and 2k. the only problem of 98 for me are drivers but this os runs and uses minimum resources unlike the os today that eats up a lot of the pc's resources making it slow and sluggish.

Answer 6

Windows cuz :

Power full
Easy to use
99 percent of usefull utilities and programs works on windows
Compatible with all of PC Hardware ( That's amazing )
Compatible with 95 percent of programing Language
Updating System
Plug And Play standard
and so many others reasns.

and this is my personal comment:

Computers improved very fast beetwin 1990-2006... just for one reason

Becuz:
Microsoft (Fisrt with MS Dos and after that with Windows and Office And Visual Studio ) find the way that how many people Can works very simlpe and actually Powerfull with computers.

Microsoft Set the standard and show the way to the others on the world.

Hey Bill Gates i Love ya ;)

Answer 7

This is a very disputable topic but the most common would have to be Windows. The best for this reason is that when you purchase this computer you don't have to unistall crap you don't need. That os would have to be MAC OS.

Answer 8

It really depends on what you are doing with the PC in question and what you are looking for in an operating system.

for instance, if you are looking for reliability and stability, I would suggest one of the various distros of Linux to be better than most of the Window's operating systems. But, this comes at a cost, Linux *usually* requires quite a bit of technical know-how in order to really make the most out of it.

Windows, on the other hand, is still the #1 standard when it comes to desktop operating systems for overall ease of use. With over 90% of the market share, most applications are written for Windows, and mostly all the hardware (sans the Apple hardware) is geared and designed with Windows in mind... well, you get the picture.

(Let's not even go into Apple territory)

Answer 9

I recently downloaded and tried ubuntu which is flavour of LINUX
link here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Its really easy to install has good help online and is a friendly entry into using LINUX based OSes
Its not as polished as windows XP but it takes about 2 hours to install, comes with a working version of open office, had better driver support than windows XP (for IBM R40 laptop and old Dell Dimension PC)
A really good option for someone that just needs a PC to write letters/get on the internet use email.
As everything is on the initial install and it has a very minimalist interface good for a novice or as a backup machine

Answer 10

The best operating system will be Windows Vista, it hasn't come out yet but it will undoubtedly be most wanted when it comes out. With graphics that really make use of your graphics card and features that will you out for your daily tasks.

Out of all the operating systems I reckcon you'd have most software available for windows rather then others. But it does end up depending on what your intending to do with the pc.