Which is best?

[WaWAR_FA]

out of the 118 different opperating systems offered on this site which is the best alternative to windows?

i am trying to find a Os similar to XP(bleh)

1. the ability to load programs with out recompiling the kernel everytime(or atleast somewhat automated)

2. support for most name-brand hardware. (i hate surfing the web trying to find drivers for my crap, and i dont want to use old crap)

3. some thing that wont fuck up every 3 hours like XP does.( or something will a kill command so i can stop it before it takes everything down.  something that wont try to throw everything in the kernel)

4. did you say free?(better than paying out 300$ for XP pro full version)( for 300$ bill gates better send a hot chick to my house and have her suck me off)

5.mutiple monitor support.(dosent work for XP thats for damn sure. of course ive tried red hat 7.1 and mandrake 8.1 and neither of them worked either.....)

post comments of suggestions on which is the best here.

post your critisims of my choice in leaving windoze at www.go-fuck-yourself-because-windoze-sucks.com

[choasforages]

hmmm, "which is the best" is not a very good topic title and subject. a better way to ask the same question is to say, how do the 118 os's on this compare, what are there features and stuff. a question asking which is the best will a best draw personal opions and worst draw shitbrained responses from some of the "less disirables" on this site. sorry if i sound harsh but to many good meaning posts have been screwed by these jerks

[WaWAR_FA]

ok, of the 118 alternatives to windoze how do they compare to each other?

from experence of use what are your thoughts on each of them?

[choasforages]

good, my experiance with linux is that it have very good performance and reliablity. my experiance with *bsd is that they require a bit more advanced user but are awsome at servers and ass-end systems. from the powerbook i have learned that macos pre X is that it is usable and functuaning and VERY fast. though macosx would probably have the best ease of use and compatibilty with odd hardware. it would also be better at video editing and such

[WaWAR_FA]

ok let me do it this way.

1800meg athlon xp

1024 meg DDR ram

ati all in wonder redeon 7500 video

sound blaster audigy mp3+ sound

running DSL connection so i can d/l any of the OS and burn straight to disk to install.

should i just d/l them all and try them out one at a time?

[WaWAR_FA]

one 20gig 7200 maxor drive

one 80gig 7200 maxor drive

[choasforages]

hmmmm, redhat 7.3 would be my choice, some of the os's listed are like h4k3r os's, like complicated/simple beyound THE MORTAL REALM/*my way of saying if you don't like playing with endless setting's some just aren't for you*/. redhat 7.3 has great support around the board and i have managed to hook a few "odd" items up to it. includeding my $10 gamepad, my $20 lexmark printer a $7 CPiA netcam $20 yahoo interenet keyboard/*i wanna take a razor blade to the yahoo logo*/. also for different os you could try freebsd. i don't know what would work and what wouldn't on freebsd so i would say linux would be the best choice. another good linux choice might be the latest version of SuSe or Mandrake. all three of the linux distros that i have mentioned work quite well in compariosin to X-traProblems. you could try all the os's that are meant for your platform if you wanted to but as i said, some just aren't probably what you want./*then agian id take minix over windows anyday   */ so i in the end i would recomend try  both redhat 7.3 and mandrake 8.2 becuase you have to pay for SuSe.

[WaWAR_FA]

i recently heard something about AOL and red hat getting together and putting out an OS.

the reliability of redhat with the ease of use of AOL.

its linux for retards.  :eek:    :eek:

[choasforages]

they kinda stoped talks or are hiding them. besides, aol being easy to use, is a bit on the suckky side. and no, lindowsos is linux for retards, partialy becuase it trys to be like what weir trying to escape. then again, aol linux would help to get rid of microsoft, but then wheir putting aol-time warner in charge, hardly a difference in my opionion

[WaWAR_FA]

im trying to find something with the functionality of windoze without the bugs.

[choasforages]

hmmm, funcionabilty, like what kinds of things are you looking to do/do with xp right now, and for crashing, i have linux machines with 15+ days of uptime and they still run like a fresh boot.

[WaWAR_FA]

like be able to host my shoutcast broadcasts.

be able to serve pages

be able to install a probram onto my computer without wading through 20 different steps.  

im lazy i want plug-and-play programing.  i dont have time from crap.

[choasforages]

hmmm, theres always the unix version of shoutcast, or icecast, never played with either of them

for serving pages, linux/apache is one of the best and most popular webserving solution's out there, and it works great

simple one clicks games, like what kinda games are we talking about here. all the quakes are supported nativly, so is RTCW, and they all run fast and more stable under linux then windows, there are a few others

and for installing software its not twenty steps its just a few

heres an example of installing software using a terminal, you see, alot of software for linux is in the sourcecode form, its really only a few commands to install software from source code, and when its done, its compiled for your system, which can lead to some insane optimazations that make things run fast as hell. also if you go with SuSe, Redhat, or mandrake, all three of those distibutions offer a package format called a .rpm file. easy to install and theres even several gui's for installing rpm files.

o and for windows games, WineX might be your best answer if theres no native port, it works great for me and i only had to change 4-5 configuration options, and i changed them for mainly asthetical reasons. well have fun

[WaWAR_FA]

i want to be able to click a buton labeled install and not have to worry about compiling the kernel.

i play Ultima Online.  linux take UO at all?

[choasforages]

hmmmm, i don't know about about UO, i never got into UO/*it costs money*/ though, WineX might be able to help you, what WineX is, is a fork of Wine, which is a win32 compatiblity layer. WineX has a bunch of features that wine doesnt'/not allowed to. as for one click installs, at one point i even had the windows version of AIM working under linux with it.

 i have done that before. i would also recomend getting a book on linux and reading through it a bit before you install and try to rember a few odd commands.
o and heres the transgaming website, from what i have read, you might have to go through a bit of directy creation for ultima.
http://www.transgaming.com/gamepage.php?gameid=139

o and by the way, a comment on WineX, its not a product, its a subscribtion that enables you download the product, sounds kinda odd. but the going rate is about $5 per month, and you can buy in blocks of 3 months, and what your actally paying for is devlopment of WineX, it sounds odd but it works