Worst OS ever?

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#21

Windows Vista isn’t actually too slow if you have enough memory and good cpu. It’s just important that it doesn’t have to use virtual memory and so. I know this sounds funny but I bought 8GB of DDR2 memory and it works very well. DDR2 800 Mhz is very cheap these days, only about 10 euros (10-15 dollars?) per giga so I decided to buy 8GB. I have turned of pagefile.sys or whatever it was so everything runs smoothly in my Vista.

One annoying thing in Vista is that elevation thing which is very annoying in some things especially if you want to run installer inside compressed file. Some times you have to run notepad or commandline as super user to do some simple changes to some files.

#22

I think Windows Vista sucks and I had to use it several times to check if my bug fixes worked. I succeeded in limiting some annoying behaviors with some simple tips (deactivating the UAC…) but I go on finding it too slow, not reliable enough and really unpleasant to use. It uses too much resource for what it does and even on laptops with 2 GB I get quite unstable performance.

You give a lot of arguments…

#23

There are whispers that Android is coming to the desktop (most probably a netbook) so hopefully they will put in a proper JVM on it to speed things up…hopefully!

#24

Personally, I love Vista. It was a little rough around the edges at first, but after getting my hands on SP1, I really couldn’t be happier.

I’m running on 1GB RAM and a 3GHz Pentium D, and everything runs without skipping a frame. I don’t see any problems with resources… I have some of my biggest RAM hogging apps open right now (Windows Aero, Firefox, Outlook, etc.) and I’m only at 60% of 1GB

Also, Vista is easily the most dependable OS I’ve ever used. Check the attached screenshot. That’s 369 hours (2 weeks) of uptime, not including the time it spent in standby. So I don’t know what’s more impressive… Vista, or my electricity provider.

Now… the worst OS? I would have to say it would be Windows Me. Even though it was a victim of several circumstances (drive format transition to NTFS, driver issues with modems, printers, etc.), I can’t help but remember the scars of 0% reliability. I literally had a BSOD occur while playing a game of Minesweeper (maybe I clicked a REALLY bad mine)

#25

Ok, that triggered my sarcasm meter! Do you seriously think 2 weeks is a lot of uptime?

#26

Compared to XP? Definitely. XP would be good for about 2 or 3 days but then the svchost.exe processes would hog (and keep) 90% of RAM, forcing a reboot. (Same box that is running Vista now)

Also, by statistics, my electricity should have gone out at least once by now :wink: (my boot stamp is Feb 15th)

#27

Sure, it’s better than the Windows 9x line, but Win2k should be able to manage a month easily and Linux can easily manage a year if you don’t upgrade your hardware or kernel.

#28

XP is built off of Win2k…

#29

RHEL4 without any kernel upgrades :smiley:
~$ uptime
18:02:29 up 1083 days, 6:55, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.46, 0.47
It’s a mail server processing ~100,000 messages a day

#30

probably DOS the Dirty Operating System :slight_smile:

#31

I used to have XP running for weeks on end without a glitch. And Win2k for months - Puppygames was originally hosted on Win2k.

Cas :slight_smile:

#32

What is this fascination with up-time?
XP & Vista are both (predominantely) desktop OS’s,
who leaves their desktop pc on 24/7/30/365?!? (and if you do, who pays your electricity bill! :persecutioncomplex:)

What makes Vista an abomination for me is the god awful shell ui. (pretty much the same reason I hate symbian)

#33

I never turn my computer off except to install updates or start it up in PeeCee mode. Otherwise I put it to sleep when I’m not using it.

So anyway it’s typically up for a month or so before I restart it purposefully. I’ve had Mac OS X since its inception about 7 years ago, and I’ve probably been forced to restart only around 20 times in all those years, most of those in the early versions of the OS. Now I can’t remember the last time I needed to.

#34

Hmm, I had once uptime of about 610 days on my workstation (using Linux) without any UPS and doing crazy stuff on it (like working with 3D, wine emulation, etc.), seems we have very very solid electricity provider here :slight_smile:

But after realizing this uptime I’m not obsessed with uptime anymore :slight_smile: The truth is that the longer it runs the bigger uncertainty that the computer will ever boot again… :wink:

#35

Vista once crashed for me after 20 hours.

my vote is Vista.

I had to fix the same problem 5 times :o for BF2142!!!

XP is compatibal to do anything.

I have a linux, it is kinda hard ot use. I have to spend half an hour to figure out how ot do something

Iw ill give linux funnest OS ever though (can do anything oyu want).

#36

I tried Ubuntu the other day. It told me I had to accept a license for my graphics card drivers, but wouldn’t let me say ok to the license, so I wasn’t allowed any of the fancy video stuff. It then d/led Java but refused to run the install (said it didn’t understand the file type it just d/led). But my vote still goes to Windows 3.0 because IBMs OS2 was so much better.

#37

In the past I was never shutting down my computer and was intensivly programming ont it, so my XP have certainly reach an uptime of some month. but,I have finally understood that was a real bad idea to not shutdown a personal computer when it had an electric problem and that it began to burn in the middle of the night (fortunatly it stop burning itself and I see that the morning), since that I always shutdown my computer :slight_smile: (this also happen to a knowledge of me) so whatever is the OS you use, never forget to shut down your computer when you go sleeping !

XP SP3 the best OS ever, the worst ? dont really know

#38

I leave my webserver on 24/7. Runs WinXP. A year ago I went away for 6 months. It kept going the whole time no problems (actually I think the power went out once, but when it came back on, it just started up again). Brilliant OS! Kudos to Tomcat and Canons software too for also being stable as a rock. :slight_smile:

#39

I have left my computer to do some things over the night few times and I have been thinking that could it burn. After reading this I won’t leave it on anymore. :-\

#40

Same here, up time is not important for me because I’m never leaving my PC turned on again!

My PC started burning once while I was working on it, and it was quite a fierce little fire too! Who knows what would’ve happened if I wasn’t there…