@Sean God yes, we have a Dell in the conference room that makes me cringe when I have to use it -- I agree that tap-to-click is an abomination, and even if I turn it off, someone always goes in later and re-enables it, for reasons I can't possibly fathom.
The best is the fact that a lot of Windows versions don't seem to have built in drivers that control it. At a previous job we had Windows 2000 installed on our laptops; tap to click was enabled, but the OS Mouse config had no tap-to-click controls. I had to have the Windows admin install the OEM drivers for the trackpad on the system just so I could turn it off. At first I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on; the sensitivity was so high that just picking up my finger and putting it back down counted so my documents were opening and closing all over the place. I nearly threw the thing out the window!
When I first touched Ubuntu, it was something special because Windows XP was SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Later, I met Linux Mint, which is basically Ubuntu with a few positive changes. Last month I experienced Windows 7 for the first time, it was faster than XP, but Mint was still faster than Windows 7.
I am so happy with Mint, no longer CPU-eating anti-virus programs. When my desktop is shown, the computer is immediately IDLE, and the way updates are managed is very relaxed (no more "Save your work because Windows will automatically reboot in 5 minutes (Hahahaha) !").
Specifically Ubuntu, I love its user friendliness, mint is great too, I also like Debian. personally I use Ubuntu.
I switched to Linux after windows vista(it was so slow on my system and had so many security issues), although I had a windows 7 beta, I only used it since when I first started using Linux my wireless card would not work with it, then my dad hooked up a Ethernet line and iv been using that ever since, once I got that I erased all traces of windows and never looked back. so.... Linux FTW!!!!!!!!
I grew up with Windows, had a brief stint with MacOS at university (they said I needed a mac to do design work, but I wasn't willing to shell out another £1000 on a Mac), and I'm happy to stay with Windows. All I'm missing is Garage band and those awesome fire wires that Macs have.
I'm currently using Windows 7.
The first computers I used (and technically grew up with) were Acorn Archimedes at my high school. You could write Basic files with them that said hello (or naughty words) over and over, or you could create these utility files (with random gobbledegook) that made trippy colours and loud buzzing noises when you executed them.
Currently using Windows 7, it's a lot better than Windows Vista! However, the whole parental control thing and user friendly interface kinda bugs me. I've used a Mac at college and I don't really like it, probably because I don't actually own one. But I was brought up with Windows.
You're either nearly as old as I am or just threw that one out there for sheer randomness
It was an OS ahead of it's time. Never used it but my mate had a 'copy' and it was a capable multi-tasking long before MS had it figured out - e.g. you could do some other task whilst formatting a floppy disk. DRDOS wasn't too bad but I think MS steam-rollered them with the cheap OEM licence bundle thing which is the single reason why MS is so popular amongst the masses - because it's all they know.
BEOS was a good idea but had no apps (anybody rememebr that one?). and Linux in the early days only seemed interested in attracting people who were into operating systems and programming. BSD is related to Linux somehow but it's not Linux - never used this OS so I can't comment.
Win98SE was the best of the Windows-over-DOS environment. XP was the best in the NT tree, and Windows 7 is what Vista could have been had it not been a cluster-truck of unco-ordinated design stages. Vista - when all patches have been applied - is not too bad, but if you've never used it, skip straight to Win7.
On the Mac side of OSs, I think I'll stick with Snow Leopard - with every new iteration of the later SL patches, Apple seemed intent on locking you into 'their way or the highway' and I therefore have my suspicions about Lion.
So after running Win7, which I like, and Snow Leopard, which I also like, I'm actually settled and comfortable using a Debian-based Linux distro called AVLinux. Because it's aimed at providing a stable platform to actually use Linux apps to produce audio and video projects, it doesn't (by default) want to keep downloading the latest and greatest updates everytime a net connection is detected.
Snow Leopard and Win7 sit on a three year old MacbookPro, and the desktop has separate HDDs for Snow Leopard (hackintosh), XP & Vista, - all individually licensed - and AVLinux (free), and I currently boot into the latter all the time.
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