Which is best?

[ahri]

http://elxlinux.com/index.php and http://lycoris.org/ are supposed to be the most windows like. Although, i have never tried either.

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by 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)

My only comments are as follows:

Why did you start a thread about "which is the best" when you clearly state that you want a system that is similar to XP? if you want one similar to XP, then use XP, or possibly windows 2000.

Sorry, but if you want to use a non Microsoft OS, they will not be similar to XP. Why there are legions of people out there who want a different system, that still acts like windows is beyond me. If you want windows, use windows. If you don't, then be prepared for it to be different.

That said, different does not mean difficult. After using windows, i would be very very surprised if you could not work Solaris, MacOS, MacOSX or any version of linux running KDE or GNOME (or a bunch of other systems too).

Decide for yourself. I'd suggest SusE, Mandrake or Red Hat though, like i do every couple of days when somebody starts a new "which is best" thread.

[WaWAR_FA]

calum you missed my point.

i dont like windoze because of the spyware and the bug that are inherent in teh fuckedup coding m$ uses.

i like windoze because of the simplicity of use.

[choasforages]

sorry to burst the bubble of fun but the only other "easy" platform is a macintosh, and since you obvuiosly have a brand new x86 machine that defintaly not an option. all i have to say is to try  linux, and whichever os you think sounds cool.it doesn't not hurt to try new things./*well thats not the only thing i have to say but it sounded good*/. so just try all the different os's listed until you find on you like.

[creedon]

quote:Originally posted by choasforages:
sorry to burst the bubble of fun but the only other "easy" platform is a macintosh, and since you obvuiosly have a brand new x86 machine that defintaly not an option. all i have to say is to try  linux, and whichever os you think sounds cool.it doesn't not hurt to try new things./*well thats not the only thing i have to say but it sounded good*/. so just try all the different os's listed until you find on you like.

Agreed 100%.  Linux isn't plug'n'play, nor is it ever likely to be.  My personal preference is Debian, but that's 'cause I'm a control freak; Debian is by no means plug'n'play.  I think you're looking at the wrong operating system.  You might want to hang on until OpenBeOS is out, that's gonna be plug'n'play (as long as your hardware is compliant).

[Calum]

i didn't mean to be negative in that last post of mine there,

i would say mandrake, red hat and probably suse, are at least as easy to use as windows.

Installation, of the system and of programs, is however a bit harder than windows.

This is fine if you are just a user of a system, but if you own the machine, you will probably be system admin as well, ie you must keep your own config files up to date and know how to install and uninstall stuff.

Luckily there's a lot of easy to use documentation about system admin of linux and GNU, so if you can be arsed to look something up whenever there's an admin job to be done, then you're good to go. In that case you may as well get one of the major distros since the actual user part is a lot more stable than windows, and as i say is as easy to use.

If you buy a licence from a main vendor like red hat or mandrake, you can be entitled to all sorts of tech support as well, for added benefit if you are having problems with the system admin part...

[WaWAR_FA]

i got mandrake 8.1 redhat 7 and 7.1 and have never been able to quite figure them out.

im a noob at this stuff.

which os is noob friendliest?

[choasforages]

hmmmm, the one that you buy a book for/*i know i siad it someplace else too, buts it vital to have a good linux book to start with*/

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by 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:  

It was just a rumor.. AOL was actually going to use Red Hat on their new servers, so they met up, and people started a rumor. And it's pretty old news, too..

[ June 30, 2002: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]

[WaWAR_FA]

ok, ive now been forced to use xp on this piece of shit box.  i know exactly what you guys mean when you say crashes.  i goint to get my webcam and point to at teh monitor while i use my laptop to record video.  this thing goesdown like every 30 seconds!!

anybody got a copy of redhat 7.3 they could mail me? ill pay postage.