Operating System Holy Wars - Round Robin Attack

What are your complaints?

from JoeUser Forums

I use Windows at work and Mac OS X at home. I have been a Mac user since 1998 if I include my time with BeOS on a Mac clone.

I have used Linux, NetBSD, and Solaris at home, school, and work over the years. I have used OS/2 during the Warp 3 and Warp 4 years.

Yet with all the experience, especially with Windows, I keep finding my way back to the Mac and cannot imagine computing life without Mac OS X.

Ironically, and despite common assumptions to the contrary, I ultimately find that Windows is easier for programmers and UNIX is easier to use.

Anyway, I have my pet peeves and complaints with and about all operating systems and platforms.

What are yours?

Give a list of ten complaints for each operating system you have used at home or at work (for longer than a few months). Windows 95/98/Millenium count as one, as do Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 and their server versions. Linux counts as one OS, distribution-specific annoyances do not count unless all major distributions have them. It must be ten complaints for each system, not more, not less.

I'll reply once I see a few comments. I try to come up with ten complaints about Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista, Linux (in general), and Solaris. (I can add OS/2 if readers request it.)

 

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ummm

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just what we need, another my OS is better than your OS thread. :annoyed:

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

Just what we need, another my OS is better than your OS thread.

You misread my post. This is a "my OS annoys me" thread. You cannot post comments about what your OS is good at and what other OSs suck. You can only post about the downsides of the OS you yourself really use.

 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

o_O  

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

o_O 

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Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

Why 10 issues when it only takes one to be annoying?

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

Why 10 issues when it only takes one to be annoying?

I wanted to avoid current annoyances that might annoy now but are really not that big in the grand scale of things. If one has to list ten, one has to think which ones stay in mind.

 

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Windows 95/98/Millenium count as one

That's annoying in itself.

Win98/se bears no resemblance to Win ME when it comes to successful employment.

ME was/is crap.

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

That's annoying in itself.

Win98/se bears no resemblance to Win ME when it comes to successful employment.

ME was/is crap.

That is true but misses the point.

Windows ME is but one version of an OS. Of a certain annoyance was introduced with a new version, it can be listed as an annoyance, unless it is possible simply to ignore the new version and stay with the previous version. In the case of Windows 98 and ME I think most sensible people stayd with 98 and avoided the annoyances ME added to the experience.

 

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That is true but misses the point.

What is the point again?

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The point is to get everyone complaining. :rolleyes:

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

I am an Apple spectialist, and use a Windows XP custom built machine at home - talk about a dichotomy in OS levels  o.0

 

I prefer the OS X as the best OS to use, Windows works fine, but must be severely monitored/tweaked to work.

 

So here is a list (only 5...)

 

OS X negatives  :(

compatibility

developer support (lack of)

network OS underdeveloped

update breakage

HD format (different and annoying when transferring info)

 

Windows XP negatives  :(

Security (duh)

unintelligent OS management (how many clicks does it take to get to....)

Too much fluff (I don't need all the built in crap)

loose Hardware requirements (cheep Korean parts anyone?)

Drivers (sure its cutting edge, if it doesn't blow up your machine)

 

 

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Mirsguy, reply 12
The point is to get everyone complaining. :rolleyes:

Oh, I understand.  Then I have nothing to complain about as I always like the OS system that I use. :O

Reply #15 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 9

Windows 95/98/Millenium count as one
That's annoying in itself.

Win98/se bears no resemblance to Win ME when it comes to successful employment.

ME was/is crap.
I can not agree to that. I have had Windows 95b, Windows 98 and Windows Me running. Basically Windows Me was Windows 98 with a deactivated DOS Mode and with that file protection system that should help to recover Windows when it is damaged. I hat not more or less issues with Windows Me then with Windows 98. In contrary Windows Me worked more stable than Windows 98 for me, and therefore was better.

Actually I find it a bit difficult to find 10 complaints for every system. I would find it easier to find 10 good points for every system.

 

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Mac? Linux? Windows?

Each one of these O/S's have the same problem...

...the knobheads who use them

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

Security (duh)

well just because everyone goes to the porn sites on their windows machines.

unintelligent OS management (how many clicks does it take to get to....)

and using several fingers to right click something?

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My OS complaint list is as follows;

1: They cost too much.

2: They cost too much.

3: They cost too much.

4: They cost too much.

5: They cost too much.

6: They cost too much.

8: They cost too much.

9: They cost too much.

10: They cost too much.        >:(

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 18
My OS complaint list is as follows;

1: They cost too much.

2: They cost too much.

3: They cost too much.

4: They cost too much.

5: They cost too much.

6: They cost too much.

8: They cost too much.

9: They cost too much.

10: They cost too much.        >

Too damn right.

Me thinks Wiz iz right on.

OS Wars/Unhappinesses/complaints....meh. Who has the time/strength. Ain't gonna change Jack anyhow.

Gotta agree with Jafo, also.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ain't gonna change Jack anyhow.

Hey! Don't talk about Jack that way! :ninja:

:rofl:

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 16
Mac? Linux? Windows?

Each one of these O/S's have the same problem...

...the knobheads who use them

I definitly agree, although Mac OSX with its compatibility problems is almost as bad.

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 16
Mac? Linux? Windows?

Each one of these O/S's have the same problem...

...the knobheads who use them

:rofl:

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I can not agree to that. I have had Windows 95b, Windows 98 and Windows Me running. Basically Windows Me was Windows 98 with a deactivated DOS Mode and with that file protection system that should help to recover Windows when it is damaged. I hat not more or less issues with Windows Me then with Windows 98. In contrary Windows Me worked more stable than Windows 98 for me, and therefore was better.

I once sat there and watched a ME OS install choke itself to death under its own avalanche of Restore Points until the system froze with no free drive space.....quaint as hell for a cocked-up OS....but ultimately a waste of time.

If a ME install worked for you then write a book about it.....it'll be a unique experience....;p

Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 16
Mac? Linux? Windows?

Each one of these O/S's have the same problem...

...the knobheads who use them

 

Exactly. They all work, just find one that suits your needs, actually learn how to use it, and use it.

Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 23

I can not agree to that. I have had Windows 95b, Windows 98 and Windows Me running. Basically Windows Me was Windows 98 with a deactivated DOS Mode and with that file protection system that should help to recover Windows when it is damaged. I hat not more or less issues with Windows Me then with Windows 98. In contrary Windows Me worked more stable than Windows 98 for me, and therefore was better.


I once sat there and watched a ME OS install choke itself to death under its own avalanche of Restore Points until the system froze with no free drive space.....quaint as hell for a cocked-up OS....but ultimately a waste of time.

If a ME install worked for you then write a book about it.....it'll be a unique experience....

Maybe I should too, had a system that was Windoes ME and it worked great for almost a year and half before I upgraded to XP. The ironic thing about it was that I was using my dads windows ME disk and he got rid of it in 2 weeks and went back to 98.