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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: TekieB on October 29, 2004, 03:29:48 PM

Title: OS of choice
Post by: TekieB on October 29, 2004, 03:29:48 PM: Sitting here downloading fedora2, and curious to see what everyones choice of os is.

This is on your primary machine
Title: OS of choice
Post by: sully! on October 29, 2004, 03:33:26 PM: waiting for 64-bit Windows XP Pro.....any day now.

Wait, it's Microsoft.....Any year now..... :rofl:

I know, there's a PR out there, but I don't want to put that on my main machine, and VMWare won't load a 64-bit guest OS on a 32-bit host.

Anyone know if Virtual PC will? I have a legit copy downloaded from my school's MSDN subscription, but it won't install so I can't test it myself.
Title: OS of choice
Post by: TekieB on October 29, 2004, 03:38:30 PM: hard drive partitions!
Title: OS of choice
Post by: Agent4054 on October 29, 2004, 04:23:18 PM: I see you forgot to add DOS to that list. I am truly ashamed, tekie.

DOS for me!
Title: OS of choice
Post by: TekieB on October 29, 2004, 04:26:05 PM: can't edit polls :(
Title: OS of choice
Post by: Agent4054 on October 29, 2004, 04:27:20 PM: you force me to walk a fine line.
Title: OS of choice
Post by: sully! on October 29, 2004, 04:39:19 PM: Quote from: "TekieB"
hard drive partitions!

Don't want to reboot all the time just to play around and I used up all my spare parts putting together my Domain Controller.

And the fact that I don't have a "spare" A64 laying around :)
Title: OS of choice
Post by: Valkerie on November 01, 2004, 10:29:36 PM: tekie,
i prefer linux or win 2k. but if you guys v=havent seen it it was the funniest thing i ever seen. it was on three dead trolls or somthing goofy like that but it was the all os's suck song/vid and it is great ask tekie for a link if you havent seen it
Title: OS of choice
Post by: Agent4054 on November 01, 2004, 10:57:48 PM: you mean the vid "Every OS Sucks"?

http://www.deadtroll.com/video/ossuckscable.html

yeah i saw that awhile ago. VERY funny
Title: OS of choice
Post by: sully! on November 02, 2004, 10:38:53 AM: I saw an article in MaximumPC a few years ago of a guy who put something like 127 different OS's on his machine, just because he was told it was impossible to do.
Title: OS of choice
Post by: Valkerie on November 04, 2004, 12:09:42 PM: im running redhat on my soon to be server and win xp pro on my home comp and 2k on my gaming rig
Title: OS of choice
Post by: TekieB on November 04, 2004, 12:13:17 PM: Quote from: "sully"
I saw an article in MaximumPC a few years ago of a guy who put something like 127 different OS's on his machine, just because he was told it was impossible to do.

vmware or actual os'es (would love to see a lilo screenshot)
Title: OS of choice
Post by: sully! on November 04, 2004, 02:08:53 PM: actual OS's.....I wish I still had the article...it would have been back in 2001 or 2002 (that's when I had an active subscription). I'll see if I can find it.
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: Czar on November 26, 2013, 07:22:13 PM: For my primary machine, I'm using Windows 7 but I'm looking forward to SteamOS.
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: zx2slow on November 26, 2013, 09:16:03 PM: Bump from 2004, lol.

Anyhoo, I was gonna ask something like this for my new build:
Windows 7 vs Windows 8.1? I'm thinking 8.1 with metro disabled.
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on November 26, 2013, 10:46:17 PM: dafuq czar
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: Broken on November 27, 2013, 05:33:08 AM: Holy Fudgeing necro bartman
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: krakah on November 27, 2013, 06:49:20 AM: LOL looked at poll options and thought WTF. Then saw date of thread. nice.
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: The Nstuff on November 27, 2013, 07:07:53 AM: Windows 2000!!! I have fond memories of that OS when it first came out. This magical thing called protected memory along with actual working USB plug-n-pray. And wasn't that shadow under the cursor just so sexy? Wondering things.
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on November 27, 2013, 08:07:10 AM: I have 8 on my work laptop and I am loving it. Been very stable and very quick. Still working on upgrading to 8.1 but it is tricky cause I am using a KMS key vs. a MAK key. Will have to do an upgrade install to get it probably.
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: vincegun on November 27, 2013, 02:01:28 PM: I got 8 OEM (not pro, don't need the extra remote desktop options and that saved me some cash) cheap from newegg. No problems whatsoever except for metro.

Die, metro. Die.

Installed 8.1 the day it came out and haven't had any problems with that, either. Just recently went looking for a 8.1 iso since the 8.1 "upgrade" has to be done via the windows store, but found that M$ hadn't officially released a download outside of technet/msdn subscriptions up to that time and discovered a way around that. Installed from a "official" 8.1 install disk and smooth sailing after that. Even worked with my legit OEM key.
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: duder on November 27, 2013, 03:14:40 PM: If you have 8 or 8.1: http://www.classicshell.net/ (http://www.classicshell.net/)
Title: Re: OS of choice
Post by: zx2slow on November 27, 2013, 06:17:47 PM: I got 8.1 as a direct download off of whatever they are calling the school MSDN thing now. Full legit install and retail key.