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Which Operating System is best for PC?
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Which Operating System is best for PC?

I wanna know which is best Operating System for PC.

I am currently using Windows 7. And thinking to upgrade to Windows 8/8.1.

Which OS are you using?
  1. Windows 8/8.165 votes
    1. Windows 7
      86.15%
    2. Windows XP
      13.85%
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  • Mark_RMark_R Member
    edited March 2014

    what suits you best. personally I prefer windows 7 over 8 mainly because I dislike the dashboard approach the new windows OS uses, I rather have instantly my desktop without having to edit windows itself to get rid of the dashboard interface.

  • After 12 years Windows XP will be officially out of any support in less than 30 days.

  • Windows 7 exactly for the same reason @Mark_R mentioned

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran
    edited March 2014

    neroux said: After 12 years Windows XP will be officially out of any support in less than 30 days.

    Who cares, I still used 2k internally (not for browsing and anything) up to a few years back. I still have 98 SE licenses, xp is not much younger, 98 se came up the same year iirc. I even have an xp pro 64 license. Never used except for testing, driver support was somewhat lacking.

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  • emreemre Member, LIR

    I will comment, but someone will say I am a Fanboy of something, so I prefer not to comment, or, did I commented already :D

    use linux mint cinnamon ~~~

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  • You've effectively disabled the option to choose Windows 8.

  • Maounique said: Who cares

    You care if you depend on official support or patches.

  • GNU/Linux > Win 7 > Win 8.1 > Win 8

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  • TheKillerTheKiller Member
    edited March 2014

    I don't know why Windows 8/8.1 option is disabled, i haven't did anything wrong.

  • For me, ms windows is history, 8 year before switched to Linux, and never found a single reason to reconsider it !

    Fedora 20, CentOs 6

  • LeeLee Veteran

    Depends on your needs however I always find I need to go back to Windows just because Linux lacks certain compatibility I need for work.

    Having recently tried Windows 8 however, I have to say I actually like it and I especially like the feel of the new office suite. I use Excel a lot and it is the best yet.

    I have heard that Microsoft are going to offer a free upgrade to 8 from 7, if they do I will take it.

  • kerouac said: GNU/Linux > Win 7 > Win 8.1 > Win 8

    Agreed.

  • nerouxneroux Member
    edited March 2014

    @kerouac said:
    GNU/Linux > Win 7 > Win 8.1 > Win 8

    No offence, but this is quite a subjective list which - objectively - is sort of far from reality.

    Without having the desire to get into one of the eternal OS discussion it should be nonetheless said that Windows 8 (and of course even more 8.1) is from a technical point of view ahead of Windows 7. It comes with a lot of improvements API and Kernel-wise.

    Whether the changes in the UI and the way it is used is appreciated by people is of course a different topic (and here there has been a lot of criticism, also from my part) but rather unrelated to the technical point of view.

    As for Linux, it is a completely different system which is however not worse or better but simply different.

  • geekalotgeekalot Member
    edited March 2014

    IMHO, if you are forced to use Winbloze as a desktop:

    1) Virtualize it on top of a real OS (*nix); never run it on baremetal if you can avoid it

    2) Win2k is the most stable OS M$ ever released, IMHO

    3) XP Pro (nLited) is not bad and adds the device recognition

    Yes, I know about the EOL for XP and that Win7 & Win8 were included in this question :-)

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  • SilvengaSilvenga Member
    edited March 2014

    Windows 8.1 beats Windows 7 in every test in performance (slightly slower in files transfers due to the built in antivirus). (reference). Windows 8.1 also beats Ubuntu in almost every test graphic performance test (reference).

    And I personally like the new UI design. In Windows 7, we had this start menu - point and click. Windows Windows 8 I just use the shortcuts (WIN-Q) and type the name of my program. Windows 7 has none of these. I never use the metro interface that everyone is complaining about.

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  • dnwkdnwk Member

    windows 3.2

  • @dnwk said:
    windows 3.2

    I take it you like hanzi ;)

  • You should go with Gentoo. It's one of the user-friendliest distro's out there.

  • DylanDylan Member

    geekalot said: ...Winbloze...M$...

    The '90s called; they want their blind Microsoft hatred back.

  • @Dylan said:
    The '90s called; they want their blind Microsoft hatred back.

    May I sign this somewhere? :D

  • LOL

    @Dylan said:
    The '90s called; they want their blind Microsoft hatred back.>

  • MS WIN 7 from few yrs now!

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran
    edited March 2014

    There is no comparison between 98 and xp. 2k was more stable, true, but in the end xp became just as much after a few years and sp2, i think.

    I used to hate 98 because was making my life hard at work, but windows 7 is even better than XP in many aspects. Didnt test 8, I am always late to it because I get my licenses from people that upgrade, not really buying, but I will try it one of these months. What I saw at other people didnt like, though, as an aspect, not functionality.

  • Maounique said: There is no comparison between 98 and xp.

    Naturally, the former is based on DOS while the latter is NT.

    Maounique said: 2k was more stable

    Than XP? Hardly.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    neroux said: Than XP? Hardly.

    At the time they went in parallel. After a while XP became as stable, or this is what i used to think at that time.

  • @Maounique said:
    At the time they went in parallel. After a while XP became as stable, or this is what i used to think at that time.

    So you mean XP RTM compared to 2000 SP2? That might be, I did not perform any specific comparisons here. But XP in general is a fine and stable system. But so is the NT line generally.

  • eddynetwebeddynetweb Member
    edited March 2014

    Windows 7 covers my needs, as for Windows 8(.1).., um, well, I'm not to fond of it yet. I have used it however, it's okay. <3

    EDIT: okay, Windows 8 is better in performance than Windows 7. So I see why so many people are starting to like it.

  • BradBrad Member

    I personally like Windows 7 as I'm most used to to, but I do like Win 8's UI a little better.

  • I use Ubuntu for development stuff like coding and test. Windows 8.1 for games and 1080p movies. Making Ubuntu or Linux in general to work with my AMD APU+GPU Hybrid is a pain in the butt. Win 8.1 does a way better job in allocating resources. I think if you learn all the shortcuts in Win 8.1, you will like it.

  • Win7 for sure it seem no reason upgrade to 8 now.

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