Which operating system do you use, and why?

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wangfoo said:

No system ever? You're sure you have used Linux or Windows? Half the time its not even an issue with installation, its a problem with the fact that the drivers are a PoS. So many drivers are written with literally zero thought, and only function well if you stand on one foot and juggle three balls.

Lets go through my headaches with Vista x64 so far.

Nvidia graphics driver causes artifacting. Old driver does not have this problem.

UPS driver literally killed the UPS.

Wireless driver takes a dump and crashes whole system.

Thats in the last week. Maybe I'm cursed and run into these issues with practically every system I've run, but I suspect that you are just incredibly lucky. 

 

I haven't had those issues but I rarely download Betas(the exception is Betas, I will be running leopard soon but I discount beta OSs as a work in progress or my hackintosh's one of which has a speeedstep issue). I used to use ATI's but they took to long on releasing the X2900 so I skipped them this gen because the 8800 is out now. I haven't had an issue but I know it is a common complaint with ATIs. I think I may be lucky.