Which OS

[Starelementpoke]

Title says it all. Which OS did/do you find the best?

[Nonco]

Windows 7 or a Linux distro

[Juanse]

Windows 7 old and trustable

[Arty]

Windows 10

then 
Chrome Os

[connorpiper]

8.1. So light and a actually useful search. 

Plus the task manager is really nice.

[Jade]

Context is very important. Best OS for what? Gaming? Browsing the internet? Doing everything?

[Godlygamer23]

Moved to OSes and Software. Please post in the proper sub-forum next time.

[Guest]

I think everywhere except gaming linux is best, however I play games and need certain programs so I stick with windows

[CydiaDash]

None. No but in all seriousness, all OS' have something that pisses me off greatly.

[comicsansms]

Windows Me.

 

TBH, I like Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8.1.

[Starelementpoke]

Just best os overall/ or just for personally reasons.

[vanished]

This is going to shock a lot of people probably, especially coming form someone who has used Windows & Linux primarily since forever and will continue to do so, but I'd be leading towards OSX for the answer to this.  First off, I do hate the interface/general usability, but that's just an interface, not the OS, and that's just personal opinion.  It's what's "under the hood" that matters, and on several occasions, I've been seriously impressed by it.  I'll save the stories but let's just say they've done a pretty good job!  Or at least that's how it was back in the ~tiger days I think it was... not sure if they've gone down hill since then.

[Enderman]

windows 10, then windows 7

linux is great for servers though and best stability

[Dossium]

None. No but in all seriousness, all OS' have something that pisses me off greatly.

 

Could you go down the list, I want to hear how similar that list is to mine lol.

[watts300]

Title says it all. Which OS did/do you find the best?

Depends on the purpose. 

For all the single-minded forum members here that just want to play video games.. Windows 10 is the best platform for compatibility.

 

If we exclude video games and look at everything else including stability, features, and ease of use.. OS X. 

That's all pretty obvious. 

[EChondo]

Which OS is the best?

Uh, Linux? Because it runs literally everything?

[Azgoth 2]

All things considered, I probably say Windows 7.  It has the best compatibility for widely-used programs (WINE in Linux helps bridge a lot of gaps, but the ease of running stuff natively rather than through WINE is nice), doesn't have as many telemetry/spying/privacy issues as Windows 10, and is just overall a really good, quite easy to use, very stable (in my experience) OS that just kind of does everything right, or at least competently, from the average computer user's perspective.  For more specialized purposes, some flavors of Linux will of course be the OS of choice, since there's a distro for just about any single, specific niche you can imagine, which is entirely or primarily geared at one specific application.  But for general use, all things considered, I think Windows 7 comes out on top.  Windows 10 would probably tie with it were it not for the stupid goddamn telemetry stuff and the bloody advertisements in your bloody OS, which are utter and absolute deal-breakers for me.  (I know that Windows 10 Professional lets you turn all of that off, but the fact that you have to shell out more money for a business version to not have advertisements in your operating system and be able to turn off sending use data to Microsoft is horseshit).

 

Of course, for just general, everyday use, some Linux flavors win out because you can get all the same tasks done in Linux as in anything else, but it's completely Free and open-source (which I think is just better, all things being equal, than being closed source or non-Free), and generally runs a bit better/faster than Windows by virtue of most distributions being more lightweight.  But I still say Windows 7 overall just for general, average users, since you don't need any real computer know-how to use it, it's familiar (and has a familiar program set) to almost everyone, and you don't need to jump through any hoops to install it like with Linux.

 

For the more technical crowd (e.g. power users, but not necessarily people into serious coding and OS hacks), Windows 7 and Linux trade blows a lot depending on the specific needs of the user, and my impression is that they about average out for the general population.  Not, obviously, for everyone--some people, e.g. people who do a lot of coding in a lot of languages, will obviously get more out of Linux, while people who are more in the business of using technical software other people wrote will probably get more out of Windows--but I think, in the absence of knowing what someone needs specifically, it's more or less a tossup for the more technical user base.

[z123killer]

either windows 7 or 10

[Kiyuubi]

SteamOS is Linux