Poll: Poll for school project pleas answer

[teh_spartan]

osx is apple!

 

[teh_spartan]

you didn't phrase the question correctly.next time try something like

OSX is a new operating system by windows that is reported to be an improved version of windows 7. knowing that would you prefer this OS or would you rather have another OS.

and include a choice of 'I will have to wait until it comes out'

OSx is from Apple

 

[teh_spartan]

thanks for not flameing. Lol and the voteing

 

[teh_spartan]

also this pole had to be biassed it was part of the project but i couldn't say anything because it would make it un biassed

also who used other cuz they did not specify

 

[mindlesspuppet]

If Windows and OSX had a babby, it'll be the best thing ever.

FACT: Windows is the only major OS to NOT LET YOU SETUP VRITUAL DESKTOPS OUT OF BOX. Linux lets you do it, usually 2x2 grid, and OSX has 'Spaces' which you can navigate by holding down control/option key and pressing arrows. It's very smooth, quick and built-in. I think you can also setup arrow keys the same way in the latest Ubuntu release also.

So why don't you have virtual desktops windoze?

Because most people won't use virtual desktops.

There was a MS powertoy for Windows XP that added them. Pretty sure 2k supported them, it was just hidden. Can't say for Win7, haven't looked into, Win7 has enough window management that virtual desktops aren't needed.

Besides, who actually uses virtual desktops anymore, that's what multiple monitors are for.

 

[tigermilk]

I selected XP. If you want a reason I am not very computer literate and it's familiar to me and easy to use.

I haven't used Linux so couldn't comment on it.

 

[Berethond]

If Windows and OSX had a babby, it'll be the best thing ever.

FACT: Windows is the only major OS to NOT LET YOU SETUP VRITUAL DESKTOPS OUT OF BOX. Linux lets you do it, usually 2x2 grid, and OSX has 'Spaces' which you can navigate by holding down control/option key and pressing arrows. It's very smooth, quick and built-in. I think you can also setup arrow keys the same way in the latest Ubuntu release also.

So why don't you have virtual desktops windoze?

I have it on XP as a plugin from my GPU. I hold control and swirl my mouse around and it switches.

EDIT: I like Unix and its derivatives best, from a "holy cow this thing is amazing" perspective but from a "use every day and play games" perspective I just use XP. It's a bit simpler for that.

 

[teh_spartan]

linux only can setup virtual desktops out of the box if the distro supports it unbuntu yes, Damn small linux no, slax no, cent os no, Crome no,
windows 7 has a virtual desktop out of the box if you get professional unfortunately it only supports windows VM and some linux. the new version of osx even has a built in app store similar to unbuntu.

OSx has the customization of linux, the productivity of windows, little features of linux such as the multi desktops, and rsync, not to mention the amazing time machine backup system that is un paralleled by any other os, sure it isn't the best gaming platform but that can easily be fixed with bootcamp and VMwear fusion.

the ONE problem i have with OSX is more of a problem with apple. i wish they would allow more hardware drivers so that users can build there own computer.

i am not going to spend $22,000 on a decked out mac pro when $5,000-6,000 could buy me a comparable custom machine

 

[shreedder]

I run osx and use bootcamp to run windows 7. I enjoy both. I feel that neither is better than the other they noth have strengths, and weaknesses. I do hate that you can not resize your bootcamp harddrive.

 

[tahrey]

Cut my teeth on the spectrum and BBC then Atari ST, and have since used almost every iteration of windows from 3.0 (plus lots of DOS) onwards (3.1, 3.11, 95a + b, 98 + osr2, ME, 2000, Nt3.5 (briefly), NT4 (ditto), XP plus some vista and a sniff of 7), plus a smattering of older MacOSes (7~9) and more OSX than I can reasonably take, and a few different flavours of Linux and Unix (Solaris etc) alongside tasting some more esoteric arrangements.

I'll have Win7 (whichever flavour is equivalent to XP Pro/TabPC) straight up the middle on my next computer, thanks. It's easily the least bolshie and most intuitive out of the current offering, at least as far as I'm concerned. OSX damn near drove me out of my mind with its outright user-hostile wierdness in some places and worse reliability. Well, OK, that's unfair. Equal or maybe even imperceptably better reliability, but far less robust against everyday errors. EG, a scratched CD drives it insane... it's far from perfect. It is, basically, a very shiny appeal-to-newbies wrapper around an unremarkable Unix-ish shell. I daresay NeXTStep would probably have been a better choice for the latterday Macs.

Win7, I suspect, will still probably allow me to drop back to a disgustingly plain "Windows Classic" theme such as I use on XP, should I so desire, and drop away into the background of both my perception and the PC's computational resources, being the well oiled set of only-as-flashy-as-necessary cogs that keep the actual programs turning well up top, looking after files and connections, and glueing everything neatly together.