technology what's your favourite/least favourite Operating system?

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Windows/OSX/Linux:
If Windows, what version:

If Mac, what number:

If Linux, what flavor:

Year:

 

Why did you like/hate it:

 

 

(Blacklisted OS's)

WinME

 

 

 

Me for example:

-Windows XP

-2001

-It was my very first OS and i have many great memories with it. it's robust built and it is stable even to this day.

 

Worst.

-Windows Vista

-2006

-broken and impossible to use.

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Favorite OS: Windows 7, 10, and XP with Service Pack 3 for how effective and rather simple and not cumbersome they are to the machine and use.

 

Least favorite: Windows XP before Service Pack 3 (it's buggy and a bad OS without that upgrade), Windows 8 (confusing gui)

[Catpone Cerberus 23,747]

Fav. W7, W XP

worst: Vista, Linux, W8

 

I just like using 7 and XP and hate using Vista, linux and 8. nothing more

Edited October 11, 2015 by The Cerberus

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Favorite: Ubuntu 10.04, Kali Linux, Windows 7

Worst: Vista, Mandriva Linux, Windows 8.1

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Best OS I've used, is Win7. It was so easy to do anything. I have Win8.1 on my PC with no real issues other than the occasional herpderp, but Windows does that.

 

Worst is a tie between Vista and OS X. No need to explain Vista, nobody liked Vista. OS X because of me being pretty much anti-Apple.

 

Other than Android on my phone, I have no experience with Linux, so I won't say anything about it. Interested in installing it on my pretty much disused laptop and experimenting with that though.

Edited October 13, 2015 by Azure Flare

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Best: Ubuntu or Kali Linux (Windows ME was my first OS... but I still hate it.)

I am amazed to this day how much customization these operating systems offer. And versatility. And emulation. And support. And everything else (also they can run everything, plus execute OSX and Windows binaries with proper setup).

 

Worst: Windows (all of them)

Coming in just above OSX is windows. My two main problems with it are:

 

1. It hogs so much memory! You can run a lightweight graphical environment on an ubuntu machine and only consume 30Mb of RAM at idle, and Windows 7 would consume a little over 9000Mb.

 

2. Viruses. Not that I was plagued by them on my current Windows 10 machine (sigh... I need it for school, okay?) but my problem is that windows gets viruses (although that's half because of it's popularity). Linux and OSX don't (generally).

[Celtore 2,770]

Best: Arch Linux

Year: 2010-2012ish

 

Arch is a distro that you essentially put together yourself. You get a few command line utilities, a package manager and you download xorg, your graphics drivers and the desktop all from the command line. No bloat unless you put it there.

 

I learned a lot from that time and got comfortable with the command line. Between those years, I had one slick desktop that outperformed a lot of the popular ones like Ubuntu and mint. It was nice and simple too, running alsa for audio, gnome 2 as the desktop, init as the daemon launcher and compiz for the cool desktop cube effect.

 

The trouble is that desktops are getting more complex and it's not quite as fun anymore. Pulse audio is a PITA, compiz is pretty much dead now, the desktop choices are limited with KDE currently unstable, Cinnamon being tailored for mint and Gmome 3 becoming much more of a complex beast. Init was a lot nicer than systemd too because you had much more control. It was basically a text file with a simple list of daemons to launch where systemd is more of a confusing command line utility. I still don't know how to get a list of my daemons.

 

Worst: Vista 2008. I liked Vista for a long time and even defended it. But then thinking back, it was a piece of crap. The constant permission requests, windows updates restarting my machine at random intervals and it aged really badly in terms of performance, far worse than XP did on a machine with far weaker hardware.