St.Jim Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 I made a post last week - favourtie O/S. I found out that some people had made simular posts - but this one's unique! So jsut post here what your worst nightmare of an O/S. Favourite O/S post - viewtopic.php?f=17&t=23317&hilit=favourite+os Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkfight Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 im not sure, probally windows 95. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Microsoft Bob. :-) Think I'm joking? You'd be sadly mistaken. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedHONDA Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Worst OS, eh? I recall using an OS called Oberon that was abominably difficult to use. AmigaOS was pretty dang good, and NeXTEP was one of the greatest, IMO. Quote "The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound twtr | dA | tmblr | yt | fb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Ryan Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Microsoft Bob. :-) Think I'm joking? You'd be sadly mistaken. You know, had some more thought gone into Bob and was developed in this day and age I think it could become a success. Think about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Bad products can still become smashing successes. :-) *cough*Apple!*cough* Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harold Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 TI OS for the 83/84+ series! As I said in an other thread, it only uses slightly over 32k of the 128k available ram, the rest goes wasted. What could possibly be worse? Ok it is not a desktop OS, but it's definitely an OS. Quote I would write plugins, if I knew what kind of plugins were needed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerkfight Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Bad products can still become smashing successes. :-) *cough*Apple!*cough* unfortunatly that is so true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreeos Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Windows Vista. It's Microsoft for morons. Everything is too dumbed down and the user doesn't have sufficient access to the operating system itself to make neccessary tweaks. Also that Cancel or Allow stuff is annoying. Quote Deviant Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Everything is too dumbed down and the user doesn't have sufficient access to the operating system itself to make neccessary tweaks. Also that Cancel or Allow stuff is annoying. Pfft. The only thing in Vista that people with proper know-how have lost access to is control over the defragger. Other than that, pretty much everything is either more open or exactly the same as XP. (Again, this assumes the person making the tweaks is either a power user or very good at following other people's directions) Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreeos Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Everything is too dumbed down and the user doesn't have sufficient access to the operating system itself to make neccessary tweaks. Also that Cancel or Allow stuff is annoying. Pfft. The only thing in Vista that people with proper know-how have lost access to is control over the defragger. Other than that, pretty much everything is either more open or exactly the same as XP. (Again, this assumes the person making the tweaks is either a power user or very good at following other people's directions) I also don't like the compatability issues. Most of the games I currently own won't work on Vista. Quote Deviant Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 What games? Have you tried compatibility modes? The only compatibility issues I've ever had in Vista were my printer drivers, which were updated before Vista even left beta. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreeos Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 What games? Have you tried compatibility modes?The only compatibility issues I've ever had in Vista were my printer drivers, which were updated before Vista even left beta. I have a lot of games circa 1998, lol. Quote Deviant Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Ryan Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 Everything is too dumbed down and the user doesn't have sufficient access to the operating system itself to make neccessary tweaks. Also that Cancel or Allow stuff is annoying. Pfft. The only thing in Vista that people with proper know-how have lost access to is control over the defragger. Other than that, pretty much everything is either more open or exactly the same as XP. (Again, this assumes the person making the tweaks is either a power user or very good at following other people's directions) I beg to differ. As a 'power user' I feel as if I have lost conrol over terminating processes and programs. If a program starts hanging, I dont want Vista to look for a solution to the problem, I want it to close! And, regardless of how much I hate UAC, Vista wont allow you to run under Administrator without it. It is like the plugin blocking system: not all of us are three year olds, we can make decisions to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harold Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 What games? Have you tried compatibility modes?The only compatibility issues I've ever had in Vista were my printer drivers, which were updated before Vista even left beta. Knights and Merchants (you can download it for free, and no that is not piracy - the game is 10 years old and no longer sold -> abandonware) hardly works. Some people get it to work (but it'll go extremely slow) and other people do not even get it to work at all. (I didn't even bother to try running a game on a VM, that is just pointless, and I'm not about to pollute my computer with Vista) Also, you can run as Admin without UAC on at least some versions of vista, you get a constant nag about it though (how pointless, one would think that the admin is "safe" without UAC, otherwise he/she should not be admin) No matter how bad Vista is though (very), it's not so bad that it only uses 25% of your ram (like TI OS) so I wouldn't call it the worst OS (definitely bad though) Quote I would write plugins, if I knew what kind of plugins were needed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jim Posted March 18, 2008 Author Share Posted March 18, 2008 I have vista (on ma new pc) hense the sig and it's ok I say that, not because it's dumbed down, but becuase it's slow, it uses all it's processing power on vista aero flip 3d (does anyone actualy use this on a regular use) and it's easier to hack than Xp. Also VCoD doesn't work on it, (even in compatibility mode) all the drivers for vista don't make any use of my DX10 geforce 8600MGT, and vista keeps pestering you about allow/cancel for stupid things like allowing a (trusted) program to do something! :shock: Xp is better (MCE 2005) but vista is almost a leap backwards. My personal hate of O/S has to be 95 on my old old old pc. Complete ***** Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HITMAN-X- Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 OS/2 by Microsoft and IBM j/k I never used OS/2 even though I can as I got the floppys. Windows ME Vista I guess you can really class Vista with Windows ME as it was only put out to make money and fool people into thinking it the new windows of windows for a long time. Even though before Vista even came out MS was making a new OS to replace it. Out of all the OS's I used Vista makes it to 2nd place on my list of Worst OS's. 1st place would be MS-DOS just because I hate having to type a lot (But really I love DOS because I can do so much). Gezz if I had to pick between Vista and Windows 3.1 I would go back to Windows 3.1 with it bad looking GUI and crashs. Wow you should not have gotton me started with the Vista thing. I got lots of stuff to say about it and even more today as I had to fix a friends vista computer as it likes to change settings on the poor guy at startup. it also like to deny him access even though he is logged on as a Admin. Come on MS a Admin who can't Admin what were you thinking. Maybe I should copy and past this in the rant forum lol. Anyway for all you poor souls on Vista I got an answer to your problem and it not the save XP site. You just need $5 and a lighter. You guess with the $5 is for. Quote DEXTUT.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Ryan Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I hate vista, yes I do! Dont like UAC? Disable it. And 3.1 is way worse, nowhere near comparable to the productivity that Vista comes with. I was watching Chris Pirello debate XP vs. Vista last night, and he really opened my eyes to something. It isnt necessarilly Vista that is the reason it is hated, it is the fact that drivers by third party companies are slow to release even though they were all in Microsoft's own personal 'fight club'. IF the drivers had been released on time and many programs fixed withen two to three months then Vista wouldnt have been that bad. But because these things didnt happen, productivity was lost and once productivity is lost than it is useless, until fixed. Now with tons of driver support and SP1 riding on its back it is safe to say Vista is better then XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harold Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Not all that safe, it is still a whole lot slower than XP no matter how much you disable That the hardware also got better is no excuse, upgrading hardware just to be able to run an OS is completely ridiculous, and if you don't it'll be slow as heck. And even if you have a computer on which Vista has acceptable performance, XP has an even more acceptable performance on it. Sure, Vista has many new performance tricks (prioritized IO for example), but they don't hide the fact that the OS is giant bloatware and inherently slower than XP. Before anyone says my comp is too bad for vista: 4GB ram, 3.3GHz quadcore, 8800GTS 640mb (I used all vista tuning things that I could find and disabled fancy glass etc, performance was still unacceptable) Quote I would write plugins, if I knew what kind of plugins were needed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkybarkid Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 My dad was telling me about MSDOS, which is what they used in the eighties, I think that that is the ultiamte worst OS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 upgrading hardware just to be able to run an OS is completely ridiculous... How do you come up with that idea? Every OS that's ever come out has required higher technical specs than the one that comes before it. Vista just had a steeper curve. Windows 3.1 required higher RAM and processor speed than MS-DOS; Windows95 required a much better graphics driver than Windows 3.1; WindowsXP required a huge leap in computing capability from Windows2000. My dad was telling me about MSDOS, which is what they used in the eighties, I think that that is the ultiamte worst OS Given your dad's stance on IE6, I wouldn't believe a word he says about computers. Actually, MS-DOS was quite powerful for the time. It didn't allow for a GUI, but the computing technology of the time didn't require it. It was quite a good operating system (so good, in fact, that the phrase "Operating System" comes from it - Microsoft - Disk Operating System). ;-) Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harold Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 upgrading hardware just to be able to run an OS is completely ridiculous... How do you come up with that idea? Every OS that's ever come out has required higher technical specs than the one that comes before it. Vista just had a steeper curve. Windows 3.1 required higher RAM and processor speed than MS-DOS; Windows95 required a much better graphics driver than Windows 3.1; WindowsXP required a huge leap in computing capability from Windows2000. Sure but there is still no computer that is good enough to run Vista at acceptable speed, and it's a year and a half old now. Even my €2500 computer is not good enough, that should say something. If, for example, Vista ran smoothly on 1GB ram, a moderate dual core and a 7950 GT than that would be fine, that would be loads more than XP (which does fine with 256mb ram, 1ghz single core and just about any gpu if you don't play games) but at least in that case normal computers would run vista smoothly.. But clearly 4GB ram a 3.3GHz quadcore and a 8800GTS 640mb is not yet enough - that is a lot better than the regular computer but still not up to Vista. The point is, a year after it's release, regular user computer should be able to run it smoothly. This is not the case, even expensive home-build gamer computers are not good enough. Quote I would write plugins, if I knew what kind of plugins were needed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I'll give you that. But I still don't think Vista is a bad OS- just a bit ahead of its time. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkybarkid Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 My dad was telling me about MSDOS, which is what they used in the eighties, I think that that is the ultiamte worst OS Given your dad's stance on IE6, I wouldn't believe a word he says about computers. Actually, MS-DOS was quite powerful for the time. It didn't allow for a GUI, but the computing technology of the time didn't require it. It was quite a good operating system (so good, in fact, that the phrase "Operating System" comes from it - Microsoft - Disk Operating System). ;-) Hmm, I suppose you're right, but it was very tiresome, you had to write almost everything in code, and then wordperfect came along... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harold Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 As far as I know it didn't have any big deficiencies for that hardware (nowadays it would be unable to use Long mode and it would only ever use 1 core), it just lacked a GUI (were GUI's even invented yet anyway?) At least with DOS you had the power to do pretty much anything you wanted without things like "Do you want to give the program File Operation permission to perform a file operation?" (is there any reason to not-want that?) or "Canceling - please wait" (just destroy all threads owned by the process?) or "The driver you are trying to install is not digitally signed, continue anyway?" (where you always click yes because otherwise some important piece of hardware will not work) Quote I would write plugins, if I knew what kind of plugins were needed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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