for me it's Windows ME!!!! :mad: it always hangs and for cats sake you need to restart 6 times before it works properly!!!!!!
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for me it's Windows ME!!!! :mad: it always hangs and for cats sake you need to restart 6 times before it works properly!!!!!!
The worst OS I have worked with is Windows ME. A friend of mine has it and every time I go over to his place I end up having to work on the OS to make it stop crashing, drives me crazy.
Now Windows 95/98 and MacOS 9.x are not much better but ME is by far the worst (IMHO). I have just recently started using Windows XP Home and it seems OK but it still freezes here and there but the down time is much shorter than the others.
ccKID ::coffee::
I'm terribly sorry for all who use Windoze to get anything done even entertainment. The worst I would have to say I had the dis-pleasure of using was Windoze ME. The best I would have to say is Red Hat Linux 7.3 , ummmm download your copy today (it's free, yes free @ www.redhat.com or double your money back.)
mmm a tie between win95 and Win Me for sure... win xp trails clossely behind
Win ME: tried to install it on a laptop over Win98, crashed during installation, computer wouldn't start, ended up taking it to a computer store, screamed repeatedly at the sheer thought of the people who developed it :splat:
Also, it's positive features were in no way good enough to warrant paying for an upgrade, since you could download most of them free anyway.
heh id have to give my vote to win95 as well.
bug wise: apple II (yes I actually used one and yes it's that bad)
featureitus wise: Mandrake 8.2 (no linux system should be 1 gig and what am I going to do with 5 word processors a 6 text editors)
Nasty crash wise (different than bug wise): windows 95 first edition (truly ill)
Nasty look wise: windows 3.0 (windows 1.0 probly would look nastyer I never got to use it)
Command prompt nasty: dos 3.3
install nasty: Debian
Bigest POS: ME (this didn't really need to come out)
Bigest software improvements: ME-XP (not that XP is great but ME was that bad), Mac OSX upgrade (not so bad) and upgradeing redhat to 6.
Without a doubt. They should have never released Me.Quote:
I hate win XP with passion too...
its just too much after you are used to the normal setting pops up from start button...
Avdven, how do you configure XP properly?? in what way?
i made it looks more like normal windows at least.
besides, XP is too round.. like cutey wooty
Obviously noone ever used Digital Equipment's RSX11MDP and the PIP language.
Fortran on an IBM 1130?
I hate to admit that I run a network of Win ME computers. I must say though that ever since I upgraded to more RAM (384 Megs) and began using MaxMem it hasn't been all that bad. Just get used to restarting after every freakin thing possible and clicking MaxMem all the time. Oh yeah, I also format my hard drive at least once a month just to keep it cleaned out. Installations always go wonderful, (with reboots of course!) I use multiple firewalls (software and hardware) to help w/ the endless security exploits. Once you get used to all that, its fairly stable and compatible w/ lots of stuff. (Just make sure you get rid of UPnP!!!)
I think the worst OS ever made was Winblows 3.11!
The best ever, RedHat 7.2! (Even though I'm still learning how to use it)
And hey, I have a duel boot system. Winblows ME and RedHat 7.2 (And soon to have Win XP Pro Corp Edition.) That way when Windoze dies, I have my backup OS! GO REDHAT!!!
(Isn't it sad how a FREE OS is way better than one that costs over a hundred bucks?)
I have XP and it works fine for me. You can change the style so that the forms look like regular windows as well as setting the start menu to look like old windows. Plus, there is a compatibility option which works great - I was running red alert win 95 edition that will only work with win 95 or dos, but by changing the compatibility for it to win 95, I can now play it.Quote:
Originally posted here by cocoke
I hate win XP with passion too...
its just too much after you are used to the normal setting pops up from start button...
Avdven, how do you configure XP properly?? in what way?
i made it looks more like normal windows at least.
besides, XP is too round.. like cutey wooty
win 9x/ME hands down. NT/2000/XP is the way to go for an M$ OS. Also, earlier versions of linux(IMO mainly before RH 7.x), you sneeze and you're re-compiling your kernel
ME crashed on me on first boot-up out of the box, now granted...Vendors load a BUNCH of needless CRAP on their systems. my typical policy is to scrap-n-nuke as soon as its out of the box, but being the curious admin that i am, wanted to see the ME setup, just like a typical user would. i will have to a bit of credit to the system roll back feature though, it worked great for me the one time that i had to use it.
man that's old school that's like minux old schoolQuote:
Originally posted here by fourdc
Obviously noone ever used Digital Equipment's RSX11MDP and the PIP language.
Fortran on an IBM 1130?
Risking to date myself, the worst OS I have run has to be Windows 3.0
A close second is Win Me.
RIP... Flip
The one I hate the most is VMS. I hated using a dumb terminal connected to a mainframe. Plus, the big red button was too much of a temptation... I pressed it :D Good thing it was only in high school :)
"Keep der grubenmittens from der big red button. Just watchen der blinkenlites"
windows xp
no grief with driver compadibality but it crashed 9 times and lost everything
used all 224 megs of ram
600 mhz p3 was slow as hell
games didnt work
after it crashed the 9th time it messed up my brand new 20 gig hdd
Linux dominates :)
Definately windows ME. I can't remember having to restart our windows 95 computer nearly as much. Even though it did run real slow right before we got the ME comp.
at the moment i'll have to put a vote in for windows '98 and windows '98 SE, had win '98 on a cyrix box and it ran like a dog, currently have 98 SE on my parents box with 384 meg of RAM and it also runs like a dog, no end of system hangs and BSOD's
i would put xp pro on the olds' box but it only has a paltry 3 gig hard drive :(
Oh you wuss ;)
Windows 95..Well I really didnt have many problems. Windows 98 SE I had almost no probs. Windows XP Iv never had a problem. Linux... Heh.
Worst OSs:
Red Hat Linux 6.1 (****ing **** ALWAYS fails while writing partition tables and **** like that)
Windows ME: Stable as a postal worker, lol never know when the bastards going down.
"But the boot times 20 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!"
WOOOOOO SO IS THE MAXIMUM UPTIME!
Am I the only one that saw Windows 1.0, and started laughing uncontrolably at how much of a shitty rip off of Midnight Commander it was?
Well gore,
midnight commander (mc) is a ripp off of norton commander..
and in that sence yes.. Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.0 were crappy clones of nortons great toolkit..
The worst OS I ever used was proppably windows ME..
pre-installed on my parents PC, they didn't even give me the WinME CD, it had a recovery thingy . . utter crap !!
it is win me i had 95 and it was not that bad win me was unstable and crashed alot
My least favorite operating system is tied between MacOS 8.5 and WindowsXP Home Edition. Macs crash and require a lot of restarts and they are way behind as far as software is concerned. WinXP crashes a lot and I've had to reinstall it several times. And there are so many Service Packs to download
A while back I used one of the live-cd's from slack.
Ugh, it had no irc-client, no terminal access in X etcetc.
Bad experience.
I also had some bad experiences with FreeDOS, namely with the command piping.
But the rest of FreeDOS I kinda liked so it will not be the worst, that title goes the the CDed OS.
Youv gote be kidding me. XP is great. It only crashes if you use "warez" and other bullshit. I dont run those on that computer and Its never crashed on me.
I think WIN ME is truly one of the worst OS's ever designed. It was suppose to be an update but it was more like Microsoft used its original programming code in it.
I've been using WIN XP for 2 years now, and I love it. I never have any problems out of it.
I think when Microsoft decided to build XP on a NT platform they made a great choice there. Securtiy wise XP is a big improvement over 98, and ME. All in all XP is very stable for me.
looks can be deceiving, but i would say that whatever runs on this thing could not have been very user-anything. more like; computing for the sake of it.