Worst Operating System you ever used?

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I am using vista. And its the most annoyingest thing ever. Not to mention half the time it won't let me visit a site I want to because its decided that site is a security risk. never mind the fact that I know nothing bad will happen as I routinely visit that site on other computers- and it won't let me circumvent that.

Also i can't even use "alt control delete" because that causes the screen to flash dark than light again, which is enough to send me into a seizure. Therefor I need to hold down the power button and restart every time my computer begins running really slowly. I can use a computer and browse the internet (no flash player) just fine, but that sudden flashing is horrible and there is no way to avoid it entirely. It took me quite a bit of searching around on the internet just to figure out how to keep it from happening everytime I wanted to open a program or an update became available - one of the first things I did was contact microsoft but they refused to tell me how on the basis that I had only bought vista from them, not the computer it was running on


I've also turned off vista's security and virus programs because of this so now every time I start the internet I'm told my computer is at a severe security risk before I'm allowed to open a website

Then there is also the annoying "checking to solve the problem" feature every time you close a window that isn't responding. Is it that hard to realize that some people would rather just close the window, open a new one, and be on the requested site in 2 seconds, than spend 5 minutes waiting for their computer to tell them why the window wasn't responding


I also am not allowed to begin browsing the internet until microsoft messenger starts up. I've no desire to use microsoft messenger. I spent an hour fighting to get into the recycle bin than erased it from there, but the next time I started up the computer it was back. And now I don't have permission to even change its folder. After all vista knows what programs I want and I, as a user of the computer, have no knowledge of all of what programs I'd like to have running. Whats the point of having an OS that doesn't let you make any decisions?

It not only takes forever to open any program, it takes forever just to view the start program list. And remember how you used to just be able to hover your mouse in programs like word and see all your options. Not any more. You know have to click on each title, wait a full minute or longer for the group to open, then click on what you want and wait another minute for those options to open. So if you are unfamiliar with the choices it might take you 10 minutes just to find the correct tab instead of the 10 seconds it took on older OS

To if one window causes an error, vista will close all your windows, without warning.


I'll enter in a middle of a post, to start a new paragraph and vista advances me to the next page (it just did now). It just as frequently takes you back to the previous page when you hit backspace to erase one mistyped letter, thereby erasing lengthy posts you've worked on and oftentimes making them impossible to retrieve

even more annoying is that if you drag a window even slightly onto another window it will advance the second window to whatever site the first is on - whoever thought that would be an even slightly desirable trait needs to be painfully and excruciatingly tortured until they can experience reality. I've yet to find a way to stop that from happening

It also has severly limited backwards capability which doesn't make the slightest bit of common sense. One of the greatest selling points of a new OS is that previous features will work on them.

Its not surprise at all that many businesses are preferring to keep their old computers for another 5 years than to buy ones with vista

It's standard tradition to use Firefox and the likes now. We all agreed that IE was a pile of s**t ages ago. Why? It's easy to target.

And yeah, it's funny how most people complain about Vista when their computers are simply too slow to begin with (although shops these days are selling REALLY s**t computers because Laptops are more popular). Also the fact that 90% of all computer problems are human error, ie. users cause the problems themselves. A friend of mine was going mad because he couldn't run Vista fast enough, turned out he had a Pentium III, 128mb RAM and intergrated graphics... barely even enough to run XP!

Backwards compatibility? I've ran games like Total Annihilation without problems on mine... and it was made in 1997. Also the problem you're getting with typing on webpages seems to be something else, I haven't had this even on IE7 yet.

I'm no Microsoft fanboy, Linux is good despite it's difficulty and I don't hate Macs despite my OSX whinging earlier (I still use it for Logic Pro), just that the trend of Vista-bashing is getting tiresome especially when it's getting praise over SP1 now. OSes interest me in general, so I don't prefer one over others.

In other words "I'm know more stuff than you". You couldn't be any more arrogant.

If it's pure junk backed by 100% fact, then how come I've absolutely no problems with it? No security problems, no crashes, no compatibility issues and no slowdown here.

I haven't tweaked it in any way after I installed it onto this PC, although I don't think there's any need to.

I haven't exactly said that people are stupid because most don't have much knowledge about them, that's what I'm not trying to portray here. Just because one has lack of knowledge on one thing doesn't mean one is an idiot after all, as one can have knowledge in a different field. But the truth is, not many people know how to use a computer properly and that's a fact. Not everyone can programme in C or build their own systems, for example. Not many can even reinstall their own OS or fix their own problems. I am no means infallible myself, even I make my own silly mistakes.

To assume that an OS is crap in such a zealous manner with such awful misconceptions like yours is utterly ridiculous, especially if you claim to know a lot about this stuff too even though ironically you don't seem to know how to use IE... heh. (Well, It does seem like that if you complained about it's overbearing security that can be easily switched off)

And yes, there's my attempt at pretentious TL;DR verbosity.

Hahaha, personal attacks? Bloody hell you are deluded. I'll let you into a secret, I've not personally attacked anyone. If you want personal attacks, I could call you something hurtful like "Autistic Spazzmo" but I'm not going to do that since I don't want to be banned.

You think one has knowledge of OSes and/or from some college means they're intelligent enough to know that Vista is crap, and that anyone who think Vista is okay is a brainless idiot. There's no logic to that notion at all, just because they know about certain things or go to a certain place does not mean they'll think the same about Vista. Another friend of mine who's maintaining SQL servers were he works just happens to like Vista too, so your theory of "people with knowledge of computers would agree that Vista is crap" is instantly moot. People who major in computer science can just be as idiotic as any other person, it does not make them intellectually superior after all. And to claim I'm assuming everything is silly, since you also assume that anyone with a bit of knowledge would hate Vista.

And to prove Vista isn't crap? I've been running it for nearly a year and I constantly use it for music sequencing, photoshopping, video editing and gaming, and I've done with without any hitches. No freezing, no BSODs, no nothing. I have it on this PC and my laptop so that says something.

But...

I'm not saying it's a perfect OS, of course like any other OS it has a few flaws... like UAC being switched on by default and being generally useless, but it's easily turned off. Activation is a pain too, but SP1 eased that by turning off that limited functionality mode and Microsoft are planning to get rid of that in general. Drivers were an issue when it first launched, but this isn't a problem now.

I will try them, thanks for the suggestions.

Oh no, Triangle trees exposed me as a troll and hurt my fweelings!

If you didn't "care" and knew I was "trolling", then why make at least 3-4 essay posts full of TL;DR boredom? Everyone knows that trolls love negative attention like that and the best bet is to just ignore them.
I wasn't trying to troll, you just seemed to take things out of context because my point of view about some OS is completely different than yours. You can't accept the fact that there's other people who don't think it's s**t so you're resorting to a verbose version of an ad hominem attack, bit silly and childlike for some "programmer". And no, I'm not attacking you in any way despite you thinking so, unless having a different opinion is some form of "personal attack". Then again, I'm fairly honest and politically incorrect, so it could come off as that despite not intending to.

I can summarise most of your posts on this thread as "Vista sucks and you're dumb because you can't see why it sucks", less reading and means the same thing. To be honest though, I wasn't arsed to properly read any of your posts.

Continue to do silly childish attempts to insult my intelligence and crappy writing skills if you want, but it's ultimately wasted on me mate.


And back on topic: I personally didn't like Windows 98 either. Glad I don't have to stick up with "illegal operation" errors anymore.