Worst OS ever?

worst OS

  • ME

    Votes: 14 70.0%

  • Vista

    Votes: 4 20.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • Total voters
    20
Did this posible fome from my idea in the other thread about the best OS :)

Windows ME is deifantly awful but there others i'm sure i just cant think of right now.
 
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Why is Vista a choice?

Here's a quite recent thread on Vista's supposed "fail". The OP was owned quite fast, because, as stated by experienced posters, Vista was and is better than Windows XP. Windows XP had much more issues and security vulnerabilities than Vista did, and will, ever have.

http://www.computerforum.com/190974-reasons-why-vista-epic-fail-operating-system.html

I have and had Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The biggest hastle by far was and still is Windows XP. Windows XP was just so widely used, that it "grew" upon the Windows user, as it did for me. I still enjoy both Windows XP and Vista.
 
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Never had ME but heard also was the worse. Had windows 3.1, 95 osr2 and 98 2nd edition also. Many ive heard said it was better. Vista is the only other i did not have.
 
Demilich said:
Why is Vista a choice?
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Cause it caught a lot of flack early on.

Personally, I liked it a lot. I always had it dual booted with XP, but it was always 64 bit and ran flawlessly. I think that the ones that didn't like it just didn't have a powerful enough computer to run it well.

innercx said:
Did this posible fome from my idea in the other thread about the best OS :)
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Yes it did.
 
wolfeking said:
Cause it caught a lot of flack early on.

Personally, I liked it a lot. I always had it dual booted with XP, but it was always 64 bit and ran flawlessly. I think that the ones that didn't like it just didn't have a powerful enough computer to run it well.


Yes it did.
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Read my previous post again, as I edited it, with much greater detail.

You liked Vista? Then why tarnish Vista and hang it as one of the choices for worst OS ever?
 
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One of my all time favorites
 
Demilich said:
Read my previous post again, as I edited it, with much greater detail.

You liked Vista? Then why tarnish Vista and hang it as one of the choices for worst OS ever?
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I read that post as it was happening. I posted it off the top of my head.
voyagerfan99 said:
I made a virtual machine of ME for an IT project last year. It crashed right after the install.
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I had it for a while on some older dells and it always had issues with stability. I have tried it in VM and it would not install all the way. 2K did, though. It is still as stable as ever (needs to access the GPU more though.)
 
I've used 98, ME, XP, Vista, and 7. I've never had any real problems with any of them. Of course, I like 7 the best because of the asthetics, but then again, I like Mac OS X better than 7, even though I'll probably never use it.
 
For the record.......i still know people that will not change what so ever. Still running windows 2000 and someone else swears by windows 98. About a month ago i had someone bring over a laptop with windows 95. Said he had some problems and i could fix it.
Told him to go away. It won't happen. some people just will not let go.
 
I dont swear by 2K. The only reason that I keep the Thinkpad is because it is mobile, and has a good build quality. The setup in the truck is set where I can interface with the dock rather quickly, and it has a serial port for my mobile recipt printer. Dont really find serial ports anymore. 2k just happened to be the factory OS. Im sure I could run vista if I wanted to, but I dont think IBM supplies drivers for it in vista 32.

Anyway, back on topic. Are we settled that ME was the worst (at least recent) OS? Or is there an Epic fail in MAC or linux that we are overlooking?
 
Windows Me did suck, Xp was only great cause it was out long enough for enough service packs to fix almost all the bugs and Vista would have been the same way if M$ would have kept it going for about another year or two. I noticed a huge difference when I had Vista and they released SP1, it was way more stable.

As for bad apple Os I would say anything before OSX, I know I hated them and it seemed like people responded better to apple computers when they switched.

Worst Linux Os is a hard call cause they all have there little purposes. Like I would say Damn Small Linux is the worst (DSL). It just really lost all of its support. But you really cannot put Linux in a group cause many of them are different. Like example being the Debian based packages like Well Debian, Suse, Mint and Ubuntu have all been pretty good and seem to keep improving by large margins considering they are open source so a little differently ran.
 
I find it interesting that it is automatically assumed that a Windows OS is going to be the worst ever.

What's next, "Operating Systems no one has even heard of"?
 
The worse was the first ones i mentioned. WHY! you may ask. Because every single driver had to be set up manually. Even for the internet to work. Nothing automatic about a lot of the old systems. But then thats all there was. and it was considered a big step forward from just dos only systems and bulletin boards with no internet. Internet was unheard of.
 
Maybe the whole reason Windows ME worked well for me was because I didn't have a full WinME CD, I had an upgrade disc. So what I would do to install ME was I would install Windows 98 SE first and then upgrade it to ME. After that, I usually would run the upgrade again every month or so to keep it fast. Never had an issue, other than some issues that were already present in 98 SE.
Personally I hate Windows in general, but I also like Windows in general, if you understand. Windows 7 rocks, never messed with Vista much, and I was a long term XP user. I also have experimented with MS-DOS 6 and Windows 3.11, liked it and hated it, installed 95, liked it and hated it, installed 2000, liked it more than I hated it, and so on. The one Windows OS I haven't really gotten deep into is Vista.
So, I don't think I have a worst OS candidate, except maybe a crappy Linux distro called Symphony OS.

wolfeking said:
Anyway, back on topic. Are we settled that ME was the worst (at least recent) OS? Or is there an Epic fail in MAC or linux that we are overlooking?
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As many people keep saying, MAC and Mac are two different things altogether.
 
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Of the old ones i liked in this order.
Windows 98SE and XP Pro.
Now its Windows 7 Pro.
tried most at one time.

was a time and place for dos. I was fluent with it at one time.
Still a need for it also at the command line.
XP and 7 still support it but its slipping through the cracks.
Windows is pretty much automated.
 
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