[Wrizz]

What are some of the strangest operating systems you have ever used, not the commonly known ones like Zorin or even the satanic ubuntu but I want to hear WEIRD ones

[DareEviler]

Draco Linux had the interesting idea of combining a Slackware base with pkgsrc, the NetBSD package manager.

[mothered]

I'd say Windows 3.1 back In the 90s.

Spoiler:

I'd be very Interested to read the thoughts of those who've used It.

[chesterbeatdeath]

I'd say Windows 3.1 back In the 90s.

Spoiler:

I'd be very Interested to read the thoughts of those who've used It.

I was first sat down at a computer at the age of 5 at a 386 that booted into DOS where you'd start Windows 3.1 from. Things were still simpler using DOS rather than booting the GUI. QBasic programming until I was forcing machine shutdown with every build of my little RPG adventures. I wish I could remember what kinda system specs shorted out for animated flames in 8 bit

[skrtja]

DOS, probably not what comes to mind when you say OS

[chesterbeatdeath]

DOS, probably not what comes to mind when you say OS

Literally what comes to mind when I read "Disk Operating System" is "Operating System".

[mothered]

I'd say Windows 3.1 back In the 90s.

Spoiler:

I'd be very Interested to read the thoughts of those who've used It.

I was first sat down at a computer at the age of 5 at a 386 that booted into DOS where you'd start Windows 3.1 from. Things were still simpler using DOS rather than booting the GUI. QBasic programming until I was forcing machine shutdown with every build of my little RPG adventures. I wish I could remember what kinda system specs shorted out for animated flames in 8 bit

Good to read you've experienced Windows 3.1. The good old hour glass waiting for programs to load, was quite frustrating at the time.

I also owned a 386 and from memory, I believe It had "4MB" of Ram and a 500MB HDD. I don't recall any other specs.

[Hoss]

Not sure how TempleOS was not mentioned yet, but that is probably the strangest I've ever used.

[Vultra]

Not sure how TempleOS was not mentioned yet, but that is probably the strangest I've ever used.

By far, this is new to me. This is something for me to look at thanks.

[BurritoBeans]

Win3.x and DOS? Aw man, those are daily drivers for me!

Spoiler: IBM

Still use these two IBMs pretty often, the 30-286 for some programming and playing games and the 55SX for the occasional time that I need to use one of my MCA cards or to interface with the AS/400. Both run Windows 3.1 and OS/2 on top of DOS, are the only ways I can use my printer because I'm too cheap to just buy a new one, and have been in pretty much constant use since the mid-late 1980s for one thing or another in the house.

For odd I guess I'd put down these:

• TSS/8
  I always had an interest in timesharing OSes and yeah, this is a funky one. Don't know how many others on here have messed with a PDP/8 (or SimH if you like emulation/VMs) but for my -8/I this is my usual OS as it means I don't have to load paper tape for ten minutes. It's a multi-user system where users can dial in (110 baud is as fast as it will go) with terminals or Teletypes and you can do all your standard OS/8 tasks - program in FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, PAL, etc. or maybe play some Colossal Cave Adventure - except it's limited to 4K per user and some languages have line restrictions meaning you have to flip through pages to edit your code. I like it because the fast load time and that I can access it from anywhere but even for 1967 there's better.
  
  
• OpenVMS
  Don't get me wrong, I really do like OpenVMS and I'm glad that I can get the hobbyist liscense through DECUServe, but at the end of the day I really don't know why I use it that much. I run it on my VAX, APS500a, and Itanium server and while it works smooth as butter and I love that it still gets support via HP I get the feeling that I have more uses for CP/M in my life.
  
  
• Red Star OS
  I mean come on, it's Linux for North Korea - was there any hope that it would be good in the first place? I installed it once as a joke and it went away just as fast.
  

TempleOS would've gone on here but I noticed it was already brought up so that's good enough.