Best operating system?

[ash]

I am downloading Fedora 9 now. Going to install in on a spare laptop!

I hope I have a seamless set up compared to openSUSE

[sauravgoswami]

well its one more flavour of LINUX and viruses in linux is increasing day by day

[night crawler]

well xp is the best among ms os , havent tried any linux though. vista is a loser.

[sauravgoswami]

buddy,vista is one of the highly protected OS available today

[The_Big_K]

I've been using Vista for over 1.5 years and its doing a good job on my lappy. I haven't had any virus attacks so far.

[Itanium]

love Linux (particularly) RedHat !

[bayazidahmed]

In my reading,

Reliability: Mac/Linux, Vista, XP (All are pretty close)
Scalability: XP (All the others lag far behind)
Ease to use: Vista, XP, Mac, Linux
Easy to administer: Windows XP, Vista/Mac, Linux (Huge difference between them)
Security: Vista/Mac/Linux, XP

Overall for an average user: Vista

[Rakesh Nayak]

XP is the best operating system why?
1.Any operating system you need speed first.No one can have
better speed then xp.
2.versitility-you need to have an os which can run most of the softwares.XP
beats others in this aspect.

[YourTechMate]

Windows XP rocks. The stability, the ease of operation, the looks, the performance, the COMPATIBILITY (vista fails to perform here), The speed to boot up and shut down, speed to read a CD(Vista fails to perform here too) ...this can only be found at Windows XP..no where else.

[godfather]

What you say about windows ME?