What do you prefer Linux, Mac, Solaris or Windows and why?

Answer 1

Windows, Windows Vista preferably. Why? Because it's from Microsoft, a company that is constanly trying to find out new ways for people like you and me to use our PC's to help us through our everyday lives and operate more effeciently.

For instance some facts comparing Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux :
On March 13 Microsoft released no security updates for any of its products. And while Microsoft was skipping a monthly patch cycle, the first time since 2005, on the very same day, Apple plugged a total of 45 security vulnerabilities in its operating system and in third party programs. The majority of security patches addressed issues reveled in January 2007 via the Month of the Apple Bugs. In January, no less than 31 security vulnerabilities were disclosed for Apple products, at the rate of one per day.

And we are down to the issue of patch development time. Symantec has looked into this issue and concluded that Microsoft Windows has a much shorter average patch development time than Red Hat Linux and Mac OS X. Symantec comprised statistics for 2006. Microsoft spent an average of 21 days on building updates for 39 security vulnerabilities in Windows, 12 of which were considered high severity in the last six months of the past year in comparison with the 13 days it took to deliver patches for 22 flaws in the first half of 2006, only five of which were labeled high severity.

Red Hat Linux is runner up in the context of the shorter development time, taking almost three times as much as Microsoft to patch a sample set of 208 vulnerabilities from July to December 2006, only two of which were considered high severity. In the first six months of 2006, 42 vulnerabilities have been patched in Red Hat Linux, only one was considered high severity, and an average patch development time of 13 days was spent on delivering the fixes.

43 vulnerabilities plagued Mac OS X in the second half of 2006, one of which highly severe, and Apple took no less than an average patch development time of 66 days to resolve the issues. In the first six months of the past year, Apple had an average patch development time of 37 days for 21 vulnerabilities, three of which were considered high severity.

Windows had a total of 61 vulnerabilities in 2006, Mac OS X had 64, and Red Hat Linux had 250.

To put it shortly Windows delivers a more secure platform than Linux and Mac OSX.

Answer 2

If you are going to be using a server suse Linux 10 or RedHat however Suse is difficult to configure for a windows network, Security is Linux again. windows is the worrst for security issues but is the easiest to use for home desktop purposes, Solaris Unix is just outdated so i wouldnt bother. Mac is the best for display and graphics and for any kind of design work bbut it is practically incompatible with Other Operating systems you may have on a network unless you are an expert. But if it is a single user not very literate at other OSs then windows but sont run a business of it!

Answer 3

I quite have quite have been given to love Linux interior the previous few years because of fact maximum distributions are thoroughly loose and incorporate loose application that's only as reliable if not extra efficient than residing house windows' applications and is even properly matched with them too. It additionally has only approximately limitless customization. you have a selection of all categories of computers from extremely source efficient to absolutely featured. some computers you additionally could make Linux look precisely like a Mac or a residing house windows gadget. that's as much as date lots quicker and is a lot extra guard than residing house windows. There are slightly any viruses for Linux and are controlled extra effectively. Linux has an "emulator" (wine) which permits you to run residing house windows courses interior Linux. Linux has all of it.

Answer 4

Right now I'm in windows XP but I'm going to make a switch over to a macbook pro running OS X leopard (when it comes out) and windows XP using parralells coherence.

That way I'm protected from spyware and crap on the OS X side while i'm browsing the net, but still using my core PC programs. I'm still waiting though because the macbook pro still has the specs of my 1 year old laptop.

But I'll still have a custom made gaming pc running probably XP at first and then Windows Vista for DX10 for games.

Answer 5

All of the above.

Solaris for a server thats going into the closet for years to run stable but not doing anything new and fancy

Linux for a fun-time server to try out new internet things with

Windows for a desktop machine for all the toys

Mac for a laptop because I want it to DO things (documents, spreadsheets, databases, presentations) with no hassle

Answer 6

GNU/Linux runs on most of my computers, other than the Macs that run YellowDog Linux or OSx.x. or OS X(actually is BSD).

http://pclinuxos.com is my recommendation for any PC that is Pentium Class 350Mhz with 256Mb RAM, or faster:

1. PCLOS includes 5500 FREE games, programs: applications, suites, browsers.

2. It runs Live, with 1900 programs, in the CDrom, or installed with 5500 choices, all FREE!

3. Immune to the "114,000 Microsoft Virus Definitions"

4. No spybots, no malware, no adware...

5. 20 concurrent desktop environments, of up to 200 open application windows EACH, and nothing stops for anthing else!

6.Think "outside the box", that felon Microsoft and "Trusted Partners" built, whicn locks you into annual fees for "protection" that resembles a "Mafia Protection Racket"!

7. Like a Mac on the PC, it speeds up the computer, as much as 50X faster for most processes!

8. Did I mention FREE? Free as in speech, not as in Beer!

That means you get to read the guides, the MANual (built into the system), and use peer forums, for FREE 'support'; or, pay a provider, like RedHat, Novell, if you are a corporation.

9. No 'forced' upgrades, just because 'Bill Gates' wants more money for his retirement fund. All FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) is backward compatible for ALL features or archives, including any past Microsoft formats, to 1986!

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYY-g6ionzM

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk&mode=related&search=

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs

13. GNU/Linux is the multistage turbine jet engine for the computer, in comparison to a rubber-band-glider Microsloth.

14. So simple my 2nd graders run it, 3rd graders install it, and 4th graders do their science projects in GNU/Linux!

15, First graders love PotatoGuy! You'll like Wesnoth, etc.

I like opening 10 desktops, burning a LiveCDrom, while playing YouTube videos, while composing and reading in five email and IM programs, while moving files from internal disk to external and networked drives, while formatting USB drives, and while loading Linux onto a slave drive to go into another computer!

All in my Dell 933Mhz box, found curbside, with a defective Winmodem. Oops, anything run as a Windevice is defective...

Hey, my Macs are even slower processors, that run rings around anything Microsoft ever ran! Some are circa 1993, and run great! Printer is a 1993 Laser Select!

Answer 7

I prefer Windows XP for the simple reason that I have no experience with any other Operating System...
and this one works for me.

Answer 8

It depends on the type of work. If programming high level languages, movie, songs etc, it is better to work on Windows because of its interactive GUI.

But, If you want to do programing memory related, H/W related, I would like to prefer.

Linux is also no suitable for RTOS, but we can configure.

Answer 9

All are good for different reasons; Each has an area it does well in, and some do not so well in some areas.
Really depends on context

Answer 10

Macintosh. Why? It's fast, stable, secure, easy to use and beautiful.