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[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

Windows XP was the peek of desktops in my opinion. Windows 7 was the last time Microsoft made a good OS and Linux has made huge progress in the past few years.

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I agree about windows xp, but I am less enthused about Linux these days. I like Linux, it is still better for me than the alternatives, but the satisfaction curve is flattening and mainly because of systemd.

I keep my wife in macos and we are both fans. She likes it, and I don't have to fix it. Macos is made of FreeBSD.

I would like to give OpenBSD a run, but don't have the nerve yet. I like BSD better than System V, mainly because of my history using Sun.

My first choice would be Solaris on SPARC. Amazing reliability and while slow generally could chew through large workloads without getting slower. It was the diesel truck of computing.

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XP was a security disaster, even after SP2.

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OS/2 rocked. Was far superior to windows even after bill heavily stole from it to create NT.

OS/2 was once the standard ATM OS. As that started to change it became common to find ATMs with blue screens. Which is pretty much the only thing windows is good for.

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OS/2 was once the standard ATM OS. As that started to change it became common to find ATMs with blue screens. Which is pretty much the only thing windows is good for.

The NYC MTA was running OS/2 servers until the mid 2010s. Hell, there might still be a few in the system but I can't say for sure.

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OS/2 was a really solid OS but the DE was frustratingly too 'close but no cigar'. I never figured out if it was because the design and implementation team was pulled off before the thing was fully baked but while everything mostly worked you were constantly butting heads with how they had implemented the OO desktop. I mean it should have worked but too often it didn't and then I'd spend too much time trying various work arounds.

Shortly after it was released I bet the farm on OS/2 eclipsing Windows, and then spent several years beating that horse until I finally had to accept that IBM had made too many boneheaded decisions. IBM literally was incapable of releasing a usable, appealing OS for PCs. Just in the same way they tried for years to sell PCs but ultimately had to walk away form that business. There's been lots written about the flaws in the IBM mentality so I won't bother to try to add my own spin here.

If Warp had been released earlier they may actually have had a chance, but by the time it was released OS/2 was a standing joke.

Pop!_OS is currently my favorite DE, by a considerable margin. Over last Christmas break I thought I'd give it a look one day when I had nothing better to do. Within a week not only was I running Pop on my production box but I'd switch over to it for gaming too. I can dual boot to Windows if I need to but I literally haven't needed to for months.

Hats off to the Pop team over at System76.

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Good commentary. Nice summary.

Cheers!

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Windows 95

[+] [deleted] • 2 pts
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For windows win2k

Otherwise Linux is just fine now

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Windows 7 seems pretty good, after all the upgrades are put into place. About the only thing I have against it is that it won't run old games that depended on Apple graphics, such as the original Myst and Riven. And the Incredible Machine, which I had on a 3 1/2 floppy. Windows 98 was pretty good, but it did crash a lot.

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Have you tried using a emulator? I got a emulator and all the apple roms available. They work fine on win 7.

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I liked the free copy of xp I got from work all those years ago. Now I strictly use Linux mint.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I feel like Windows98SE was the sweet spot. It ran everything all the way back to the original IBM PC software, and everything written up to about 2002. It didn't require a bunch of editing of the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, but it ran multimedia and OpenGL games just fine. That was the moment when all the pieces we love today were there in one package finally.

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I know several win 98 true believers, it had something for some people for certain. It irritated me because it did not cache disk reads at all. I was a gearhead back then.

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Agreed, anything to avoid having to set my IRQ and DMA....

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I'm just here to hop on the OS/2 Warp love-fest.

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I would like to get the ArcaOS they have now but it costs like $150.

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Either Compiz or Mac Snow Leopard.

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