In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive?

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In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 1, 2005 @11:57AM from the most-comfortable-in-finux dept.

HTMLChecker asks: "I found an article in which the author talks about how she is more productive using Mac OS X. What about the people of Slashdot? Where do you feel more productive, in Linux? Windows? DOS? Mac OS X? Also, what is the best way to rate productivity in an OS?"

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Easy. by Maradine · 2005-03-01 11:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Also, what is the best way to rate productivity in a OS?"
By the sheer number of FPS titles available native to the platform.
Inversely, of course.
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1. Re:Easy. by Rei · 2005-03-01 12:04 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Also, what is the best way to rate productivity in a OS?
  
  By whether or not it comes by default with a firewall that blocks TCP connections to Slashdot?
  
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2. Re:Easy. by qewl · 2005-03-01 12:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's all subjective-
  
  Linux user:
  "Soo.. bored of being 'productive'.. must entertain.. self.. I know, I'll recompile my OS with a test kernel again.. it'll only take.. a little while.. yea.. that's being productive!"
  
  Windows user:
  "Soo.. bored of being 'productive'.. must entertain.. self.. I know, I'll play solitaire for the next.. little while.. and then blow up a hundred monsters in Doom.. yea.. that's being productive!"
  
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3. Re:Easy. by lardtree · 2005-03-01 12:11 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Linux user forced to use Windows at work: "Soo.. bored of being 'productive'.. must entertain.. self.. I know, I'll hex edit my explorer.exe and replace every instance of 'Windows' with 'Gentoo'.. and then it will run faster.. yea.. thats being productive!"
4. Re:Easy. by simcop2387 · 2005-03-01 12:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  you forgot nethack and hunt the wumpus... i still haven't killed that damn thing, i've got 300 piles of print outs of me trying to kill it
5. Re:Easy. by bigman2003 · 2005-03-01 12:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That was coke with a 'little' c, right? Because I get be productive for DAYS on that stuff. The other junk just makes me want to pee.
  
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6. Re:Easy. by InadequateCamel · 2005-03-01 13:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  FPS my ass. There are no (well, WERE no) video cards capable of doing that in the typical office.
  
  No my friend, thou had best be wary of the Terrible Time-wasting Triumvirate.
  
  Doom, you say?
  Half-Life?
  Quake?
  Nay.
  
  Solitaire. Freecell. Minesweeper.
  
  Hands-down the most destructive weapons ever wielded by the Hell-Spawned Demons of Computer Procrastination, these Three sit atop the Procrastination empire, answering only to Alcoholicus, Girlfriendlor and the Weed & Pizza twins.
7. Re:Easy. by jericho4.0 · 2005-03-01 14:36 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  That is assuming that something that is not writing code is producitive.
  
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8. Re:Easy. by darkpixel2k · 2005-03-01 14:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Windows user forced to use Linux at work: "Um..."
  
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9. Re:Easy. by croddy · 2005-03-01 14:47 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  of course! why didn't i think to look there??
10. Re:Easy. by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2005-03-01 16:37 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Productivity! That objective unit of measure!
  
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11. Re:Easy. by ShortSpecialBus · 2005-03-01 16:41 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I totally just lucked out on my first time playing, and i really had no idea what i was even doing:
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  I feel a draft.
  You are in Room # 2
  Tunnels lead to 1,3,10
  
  I smell a wumpus!
  You are in Room # 1
  Tunnels lead to 2,5,8 ...Oops! Bumped a Wumpus!
  
  I feel a draft.
  I smell a wumpus!
  You are in Room # 2
  Tunnels lead to 1,3,10
  
  You are in Room # 1
  Tunnels lead to 2,5,8
  
  You missed. You have 4 arrows left.
  
  You are in Room # 1
  Tunnels lead to 2,5,8
  
  I feel a draft.
  I smell a wumpus!
  You are in Room # 2
  Tunnels lead to 1,3,10
  
  Not possible.
  
  I feel a draft.
  I smell a wumpus!
  You are in Room # 2
  Tunnels lead to 1,3,10
  
  Aha! You got the Wumpus!
  
  You Win!
  
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Any OS by sport_160 · 2005-03-01 11:59 · Score: 5, Funny

that does not allow me to read slashdot all day.
XP wins. by tarquin_fim_bim · 2005-03-01 11:59 · Score: 5, Funny

I can open an average of 14 infected mails every minute, click on the atatchments and have them procreating in seconds, without having to save them, make them executable, then fiddle about trying to get them to run under Wine. Match that on any other OS.
Not typical /. response by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-01 11:59 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm actually more productive in Windows, since in Linux I tend to fiddle with things and have fun :)
None of the above by spun · 2005-03-01 11:59 · Score: 4, Funny

In windows and DOS, I play games too much. In Linux, I futz around compiling things over and over and getting my configuration files just right. In Mac OS X I just stare slack-jawed at the purty eye candy.

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1. Re:None of the above by omicronish · 2005-03-01 12:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  In Mac OS X I just stare slack-jawed at the purty eye candy.
  
  You don't even have to be using Mac OS X to be hit by its productivity penalty. I'm a Windows user, but one day in a school lab I saw someone using Expose. That was enough to make me drool and lose concentration.
Windows by th1ckasabr1ck · 2005-03-01 12:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Because it has Visual Studio, which is the best IDE out there (in my opinion, of course).
Nintendo. by Eric_Cartman_South_P · 2005-03-01 12:01 · Score: 5, Funny

I have achieved more accomplishments on a Nintendo then anywhere else. Including real life.
Where do you feel more productive?? by hawkbug · 2005-03-01 12:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Where do you feel more productive?

Behind a firewall that blocks port 80 :)
Re:OS X by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-01 12:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Uh, huh. Yeah. Steve Jobs personally signs off on the "functionality" of the Home/End key before each version of OS X ships.

The question is: What the fuck are you thinking?
Re:OS X by syntax · 2005-03-01 12:26 · Score: 4, Funny

I get equally frustrated on GUI's where up arrow / down arrow don't go to the beginning / end of a single line text box.

Everything has its kinks.
Re:Easy...Ninnle! by yack0 · 2005-03-01 12:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Pssssst.... they matter now. :)

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Re:OS X by yack0 · 2005-03-01 12:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Thanks for posting that. One of the biggest complaints I hear from the UNIX/Linux die hards is key binding issues. Glad it is so trivially fixed.

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Ugh by Mshift2x · 2005-03-01 13:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I hate my mac. I set the thing up, power it on and it just works. I don't need to install all kinds of software, upgrade drivers and put on millions of security updates? I mean, without those, what's the point?
Re:Not sure I buy all of these arguments... by michaeldot · 2005-03-01 13:27 · Score: 4, Funny

On a similar theme, I get annoyed when there are 2 buttons: "Agree" or "Disagree" but not a button saying "I believe both have valid arguments and don't want to take sides." Really hampers my productivity, being forced to agonize over that decision!
Re:Which hat am I wearing? by porcupine8 · 2005-03-01 14:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Well, duh. Your slashes are going the wrong way for Windows. Jeez.

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All I have to say is... by InfiniteWisdom · 2005-03-01 15:05 · Score: 4, Funny

zcat trace.gz | grep miss | awk '{print $3}' | sort -n | uniq -c

Try doing that in Windows without cygwin
Re:Emacs by bLanark · 2005-03-01 21:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Also: "EMACS is a nice operating system, it just lacks a text editor" (Emacs Stands For...)

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