What are the multimedia OS?

Answer 1

The best multimedia OS is debated heavily. Windows is very good because of the wide variety of applications, and hardware that is available. Macs are good because of apples strong dedication to hardware and software that work well with each other, Mac usually achieves lower latencies than Windows can. BeOS was considered one of the top multimedia OS's out there, unfortunately BeOS can no longer support BeOS so most development has stopped, there are people still using BeOS or Haiku, so this is a possiblity if your hardware supports it. Thanks too the huge development base behind Gnu-Linux, it is also a possibility. Gnu-Linux can achieve latencys far lower than Windows and Mac can. Gnu-Linux can be hard to set up for multimedia purpouses if one uses propietary components, such as nVidia or ATI graphics cards, as these things often conflict with the Real-Time patches in multimedia kernels. All in all... It depends on the person, the hardware, and what specifically your doing.