What Is your Favorite Alternative OS and Why

[toxictoaster_737]

I've heard alot about alternative OS's Lately, like SkyOS, ect.

Talk about your favorite alternative os, why you like it, and what makes it cool.

[neowin_hipster]

Mac OS X, because its a BSD with an awesome user-friendly environment. I must say that it is actually user-friendly, no hype there!

[jerry]

Windows XP :yes: (use it only for games for 10-15hrs a week)

edit: Open source OSes only ?

[Veiva]

(Gentoo/Mandrake/SuSE/Fedora/Slackware/any Linux)/MacOS(X)/MenuetOS.

I like them! Just wish Menuet wasn't all assembly :wacko: .

[alishan]

XP Rocks

[Djmutik1013]

Slackware Gnu/Linux

I like it because I can customize the whole desktop and not have it premade to what a company wants it to look like

[xxdesmus]

Mac OS X, because its a BSD with an awesome user-friendly environment. I must say that it is actually user-friendly, no hype there!

see i'd have to say that OSX is horrible when it comes to being user-friendly, but that's just me.

anyways, Gentoo and Fedora are a few of my favorites simply because i like the ability to customize the entire OS (drives, kernel, appearance, etc)... ;)

[alishan]

XP Rocks

[CaKeY]

I dont think XP should be considered an "alternative". But anyway... I run Yoper Linux and love it.

[kjordan2001]

I dont think XP should be considered an "alternative". But anyway... I run Yoper Linux and love it.

Yeah, I believe this is supposed to be alternatives to XP.

[krmathis]

My favorite alternative OS are MS Windows 2000.

Guess what my favorite OS are.... :laugh:

[Gibwar]

I use Windows XP for gaming and just about everything else. But for fun, I have followed the LFS guide http://www.linuxfromscratch.org and BLFS guide for fun, now *that* is customizing your OS. Being able to choose what to install, where to install, and everything like that, beats even slackware, because you make the rules and choose what goes on. :)

-jbenhm

[QuarterSwede]

OSX of course.

Oh and the only reason certain people don't like OSX is, in my view, because they are use to the Windows way of doing things. I mean talk to any OSX user and they will tell you they don't like the way Windows does things and is hard to use. It's the same difference.

[JonathanVP]

Gentoo linux or OS/2 Warp (yes, it is still alive)

[Hummel]

Archlinux and Gentoo Linux. :)

[makirsch]

RedHat Linux Roxxx :)

[vhane]

Some would argue that Windows, Linux, the BSD's and OS X are hardly alternative OSes...

Anyway, if we are talking about alternative to Windows, mine would be FreeBSD.

[Vignesh]

MS WIN XP rocks!

[metal_dragen Veteran]

Gentoo, QNX, and my absolute favorite alternative, BeOS

[boomn]

Favorite alternative OS is BeOS and eventually Haiku

[VGVL]

My favorite alternative OS is SuSE Linux. My primary OS being Mac OSX, and my "last resort, avoid if possible" OS is XP.

[AGilley007]

I dont think XP should be considered an "alternative". But anyway... I run Yoper Linux and love it.

I just installed Yoper yesterday and it is the best linux distro ever and I will probally stick with this one for a long long time. I love it!

[LaNcom]

gentoo/ AMD64 - the one and only OS!

[amr_01]

gentoo, cause portage is the best!

[AGilley007]

Gentoo seems to hard for me.