Worst OS ever

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... is Diab Data CatNet ABC 800 server platform with a bunch of ABC80's on a RS422 network. It was called Catnet and was a token structure network.

I simply 0wn3d a network and was taken to principal examination since I thought the responsible teacher was a moroon. I simply cleaned up the server and tidyed the user database and even reformatted the harddrive. Lowlevel. Just to make sure bits where in a sound condition. Of course, I didn't tell I actually had a complete backup of EVERYTHING. Imagine 30GBs on 128k single sided 5.25" disks...

Still people have hard to understand I easily keep 10 characters passwords in my head but has trouble to remember my own kids birthdays.

Moth expensive equipment to a computer bought in pure cash: 80MB SupraDrive SCSI with controller for my Amiga. I won't tell how much It costed me, but it equals two months pay. The company server by that time was extreme with a array consisting of a total of 50MB storage.

I still own the disk and case, and it works just as nicely nowadays.

Except for that, I agree Windows 3.11 for workgroups never should have existed. Neither Windows NT 3.5, it was with 3.51 you could start speaking. And I've been TTYing on DEC terminals moonlander games (and on HP RPN calculators)

The teacher responsible for the network never ever gained access to the server after the reinstall, and I actually was the only one being able to handle the computers for about a decade, then they got replaced with a Netware 2 network with Olivetti 286 DOS PCs.

It's almost 25 years since I sat my foot in that school and I still have an anxiety about my kids going there. They looked at me when letting them into a shelter down in the basement without having a key. That's where wé had the lasers resting on concrete slabs on tractor inner tubes to minimize resonance when doing holographics...

That quote is giving windows me a complement.

As a general rule I dislike Windows. The games are the only thing that really keep me on it.

- Chadders.

[quote="chadders"]As a general rule I dislike Windows. The games are the only thing that really keep me on it.

- Chadders.[/quote]

I actually own a PC laptop because I use Windows for one single program (Baraha, a great program for writing in Indian scripts - www.baraha.com - that kind of support is not [yet] available for MacOSX or Linux).

WINDOWS. I can't tell you how many times I've said I hate it. I use linux myself. I have Ubuntu 6.10 on my hard drive and I have DSL 3.1 on my pen drive.

I hate unix and every mac os. Oh, and windows ME was a b***h.

Windows ME....crashtastic.

I know this will no doubt class me as a heretic, but I'm going to say Mac OS X on Intel. I have my reasons though - I mostly use Adobe CS2 suite and find it annoyingly clunky and unreliable at present. I know this will no doubt improve when Adobe get the Intel ready CS3 out the door, but for now I find the number of Illustrator crashes extremely annoying.

Windows ME is pretty bad though. My only advice to people having problems with it is 'get rid!'.

Ahhh, memories of OS past ...

I still have a 286 with Win on it before GUI. It's all Ctrl-Alt arrow arrow ENTER. A real hoot. But it works. WIN-ME was the least reliable. I got a copy of Linux in 1997 and it was like using UNIX.

Anybody ever see NEXT???

Bob isn't an OS technically. It's like a weak graphical shell that rides on TOP of Windows own graphical shell. Still, looks bad.

Now, for those bashing Windows 3.1/3.11, I ask you to read up on Windows 2.0. The first two versions of Windows were hundreds of times worse than Win3.1.

WinME is by far one of the worst ever.

Personally, I found the older versions of the MacOS (Anything before OS X) to be terrible to use. MacOS X on the other hand is amazing.

On the linux side, all I've tried is Ubuntu. Not bad at all.

I vaguely remember Win 3.2 crashing with regularity. I remember being asked about this at an interview.

Windows 3.1 was the worst OS ever, but if you look at what it accomplished very early on it really was quite ingenius, and so I would classify it as actually quite good compared to other available items of the day.

If we take an overall perspective and relate products to the time in which they are released we'll see that Windows ME was indeed the winner of this poll. There simply cannot be anything as pathetically coded as ME in this world, it had so many problems but mostly just stunk. I remember trying to use a program on it that had run on 95, it crashed... I tried running many things 95 or 98 would run on ME, it usually crashed. The thing was a nightmare for any sane person.

That's not even an OS, it's a shell, the same goes for Win 1.0 - Win ME. NT3.5-Vista are actual operating systems, they suck ass though.

Am getting increasingly pissed with Symbian.

Check out the hackintosh. Try a search for it and you might find a late christmas present.