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RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - xlogo - 07-19-2014
The power in my house going down when an old Windows machine was doing system update - lost a lot but then again learned a lot about improving my backups,
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - cr33pyguy - 07-19-2014
(07-19-2014, 05:53 AM)DarkMuse Wrote: Apple: FUCKING PRICING BUGS
Ya think?
Worst experience...
I haven't really had terrible experiences with any (and gladly never Vista)
I've had
W8
W7
WXP
W2000 < never really used. installed as a joke
Ubuntu
LUbuntu
Fedora
However I have had terrible experiences with Anti-Virus software, after the subscription ran out, it turned into a virus itself. (that was WXP, had to install Ubuntu over it in the end)
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - 2460h1 - 09-30-2014
I have used extensively the following operating systems.
Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 98se, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, and 7
Linux RedHat 6.2 - 8.0, Fedora 14?, OpenBSD (Dont recall the version), CentOS 3.5 - 6.0 and Xubuntu 7.04 - 14.04
Windows 3.1 was crude by any comparison. But it did what it needed to do. 95 was amazing in comparison - but it had issues of course. Windows 98 just bombed. Consider it the Windows Vista of the 90's. Lots of compatibility and crashing issues. Windows 98 se (Second Edition) was far better.
Windows 2000 however was absolutely amazing. I ended up using this from year 2000 - 2005. It was stable, clean, and just freaking amazing. My father bought a Windows ME around the same time and the operating system was horrible. It had a beautiful interface but we go back to the stability issues of Windows 98.
Thats when Microsoft actually did something smart. They combined Windows 2000 and Windows ME to get Windows XP. XP had its issues but it had the much more stable core of Windows 2000 but the much prettier interface of Windows ME.
I dont know what really happened to Vista. They just tried to do too much, too fast. It sucked. It was released way to early.
Windows 7 on the other hand took XP and made it better. Windows 7 is just nice (for a closed source general use Desktop that is).
And while I have had lots of "bad" experiences with various editions of Windows - Linux is what takes the cake. Now its not so bad - But RedHat 6.2-8.0 you needed to know what you were doing. So many times I was suddenly without an operating system. Update the kernel and suddenly LILO (Bootloader) was fucked. After I get the bootloader working again the X interface wouldnt start. more manual configuration. But of course this whole time the network stack is fucked as well... so im ferrying code/drivers across computers on diskette drives. And shit like this happened fairly regularly. It was fun though. Unless it wasnt. Sometimes it just got tedious.
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - JzJad - 09-30-2014
(10-25-2013, 11:02 PM)Nefarious Wrote: Windows Vista.
That OS made me want to kick a baby.
It constantly froze, it always had an error, it was eating at least %60 of your RAM for no reason, and it was ugly.
^ Thats a pretty good way to sum up windows vista.
Best ones so far, W2k, Windows XP, & Windows 7, waiting for windows 9, hoping for the best.
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - Fury - 09-30-2014
As previously mentioned..
I bought Window Vista immediately because I loved XP. I had Vista installed for a week before I said fuck this, went back to XP and kept it until 7 was out for almost a year. We all know the flaws to Vista, no need to mention them -.-
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - Reiko - 09-30-2014
FUCK HER RIGHT IN THE PUSSY
If you had issues with any OS other then Windows ME or Vista, it's entirely your fault.
(09-30-2014, 10:01 AM)24601 Wrote: And while I have had lots of "bad" experiences with various editions of Windows - Linux is what takes the cake. Now its not so bad - But RedHat 6.2-8.0 you needed to know what you were doing. So many times I was suddenly without an operating system. Update the kernel and suddenly LILO (Bootloader) was fucked. After I get the bootloader working again the X interface wouldnt start. more manual configuration. But of course this whole time the network stack is fucked as well... so im ferrying code/drivers across computers on diskette drives. And shit like this happened fairly regularly. It was fun though. Unless it wasnt. Sometimes it just got tedious.RHEL and CentOS are the devil of *nix... but why were you using LILO instead of GRUB? Also, were you using proprietary GPU drivers? It sounds like they ended up missing from the new kernel.
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - 2460h1 - 09-30-2014
(09-30-2014, 03:43 PM)Reiko Wrote: RHEL and CentOS are the devil of *nix... but why were you using LILO instead of GRUB? Also, were you using proprietary GPU drivers? It sounds like they ended up missing from the new kernel.
Believe it or not - When I first started using RedHat 15 or so years ago LILO was the default Bootloader - They switched sometime in 7.x or 8.x. If you ask why I didnt switch myself well, that was my first experience with Linux - I wasnt quite at that level yet lol.
And as I said this going back like 15 years - I remember having the issues but I dont recall the specific cause or fixes of those issues at the time.
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - Enigma - 10-01-2014
I'm not an "oldie" like many people are, however, I have had my fair share of bad OS experiences.
I honestly couldn't tell you how many times I've accidentally corrupted something on my system. This one laptop alone has probably gone through at least 8 different full system wipes, partitions removed and all.
I can't think of the worst experience though. I mean, two days ago was pretty annoying when I accidentally messed crash Cinnamon on Mint 14.04 and was having a hard time recovering that. Though, when I temporarily booted the only bootable USB near me to use for Internet access, PartedMagic, I actually noticed that I had CloneZilla on it which helped me in another project. So, even though it was a bad experience, this few hour long "mess up" saved me what would potentially be hours of work with the Windows 8.1 rollback project -- I might make a thread about this in the future since it's actually pretty interesting.
tl;dr I fuck up a lot of things, but can't think of my worst fuck up.
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - BORW3 - 12-11-2014
I hated Ubuntu before I knew what 32 bit and 64 bit meant. Ubuntu kept suggesting me to download 64 bit but it lagged like shit , so I hated it. Untill I learned about 32 bit and tried it. Now its Ubuntu over Windows anyday every day.
RE: What's your worst experience with a operatingsystem? - Master - 12-11-2014
You knew this one was coming. Do I really need to recount everything that's wrong with Vista -- its bloat, its slowness, its hardware and software incompatibilities, its high cost, its confusing versions, its security fumbles and other ineptitude?
Or how about the fact that several of its vital features wouldn't work on computers bearing a "Vista Capable" sticker? Let me share with you one early "review" of Vista:
My dad bought Sony Vaio laptop years ago as it had the Vista logo and was pretty disappointed that it not only wouldn't run Aero, but more important wouldn't run Windows Movie Maker. Need more proof that Vista's a dog? Let's see ... a third of new PCs were downgraded to XP before Windows 7 become popular, and Microsoft kept extending the cutoff date for XP while hurrying Windows 7 to market as quickly as it can.