Worst Operating System you ever used?

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They can be, but it'll cost ya a pretty penny. There's a company called Drive Savers. Pretty much, if you can get it ON that drive, they can get it OFF.

My brother insisted on installing that useless crap called Windows ME as soon as it was launched. We happily went back to 98SE in about two months, and in fact I continued using 98SE until this year, when I finally had to make the change to XP for work reasons. But I vow I'll avoid Vista for as long as I can.

OSX Leopard.

Considering the newly discovered DEP security flaw in vista(and XP too I would guess), as well as the gifar debacle, vista may be a floater already.

That's one of the best Operating Systems on a mac. Why didn't you pick something like OS9.

I liked OS9.

Leopard and OSX in general is too simplified and condescending, it makes me feel like I'm some idiot that can't use computers since it's impossible to tweak by normal means. I had no problems with it though, but I don't know if I'll ever like it.

I like Vista, oddly enough... I had no problems with it so far. Using it for almost a year and I had no major issues, SP1 made it even quicker than XP too.

Vista is pretty good I just which is had more compatibility with hardware. I bought a 4 GB Sandisk Flash Drive that would work fine with XP but not with Vista. The flash drive even said it was vista compatible. Oh well, At least Vista is more compatible than Linux.

I guess you just said why people throwing Vista off their new machines, and upgrading to XP or even better, Linux.

Vista is far less compatible with anything/everything than Linux. You really should get your facts straight. Other than the few clandestine deals MS does with manufacturers, to not release any information on how their hardware functions, which just delays things a little, you are much more likely to find it working under Linux than any MS product.

Well not a lot of companies waste time writing Linux Drivers. Since all the projects are Open-Source they can't offer as big proceits to the hardware vendors like Microsoft and Mac can. If not enough money goes to the R&D Department at a hardware company they are not going to bother porting existing drivers or coding new ones. Example, Nvidia isn't going to bother making linux graphics drivers because they don't get as much money from an Open-Source project as they do from a corporation like Microsoft and Apple.

Windows ME

The worst part is that I'm using it right now

Windows 95A - NO FAT32 support until version B
Windows Vista (6.0)
CP/M

No problems for using Millennium Edition for me, I used it for a long time then someone decided to "throw" away my computer because it kept crashing without letting me fix it as I "KNEW" what the problem was but I couldn't fix it because I didn't have the money

Ubuntu 6.04 - No way of configuring the boot loader so I can multi-boot properly ver. 8.06 is all good though
SuSE 6.1 wasn't very good for a beginner like me at the time 6x CD'S

When someone says "Windowx XP" which version? XP Home, XP Pro or Windows XP x64 Edition ??

All wrong. You seem unaware that Nvidia have always produced Linux drivers. It is a pity that their drivers are not to be made open source (as of a couple of months back), given that the ATI drivers are already open source.

Where companies do not produce Linux drivers in-house, there are queues of programmers waiting to use the hardware details to extend existing drivers - which is far preferable to multiple manufacturers producing their proprietary, buggy, feature poor drivers.

I've yet to see someone make Linux drivers for any of my audio/MIDI interfaces. Honestly, I can't make music on Ubuntu because of it.

Even if there is loads of drivers, Linux is that much of a pain in the ARSE to use that it's probably nearly impossible to install them. This is why most people don't use it these days, it's not user friendly enough yet.

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You say elsewhere that you are using the onboard sound with your Asus P5K - which is supported by the standard ALSA that comes with Ubuntu.

Vista.

Nothing else has even been 1/3,000th as bad. I'd rather be using a mac from the 80s with no internet than spend an hour with vista

I'm using an Alesis Multimix16 and a TASCAM US122l audio/MIDI interface for music... I'm not talking about ordinary soundcards here. Not even my Mbox 2 (which I sold) had 3rd party drivers for it.



I've been doing so for almost a year. Don't knock it until you try it.