View Full Version : I hate my OS moments (Operating System)
Nekoko
11-03-2010, 02:28 PM
Okay so I was reading some threads in the forums and thought this might be fun. Pretty much tell us your stories of your OS, past and present crashing or possibly driving you nuts (though I prefer crashes xD). I won't be playing favorites so I hope no one else will but I guess that's fun too ;p
So I'll start:
Windows 98SE: Explorer.exe has crash 1000 bazillion times (I switched to blackbox to stop my shell dieing form this xD)
Ubuntu: 5.x I think: When my dial up isp disconnected me it would cause ppptd to hang so I had to write a bash script to check for it and reconnect me! EDIT: I just remembered the indexing service for gnome would have a memory leak and consume 1gb of ram xD
Windows XP: Hmmm... few crashes from bad drivers but I can't blame the OS for that! File system randomly messing up from a power out is one! Hard to think of a lot for it x.x
Ubuntu 6.x I think again: Everytime I ran an opengl app it would hang driver problem though!
Windows Vista: IT NEVER REMEBERED MY FOLDER VIEWS AND DROVE ME NUTS. Enough said ;p
Windows 7: Only drivers issues so far but I'm sure something will come up xD
simons_pl
11-03-2010, 04:24 PM
Win 3.11 + DOS 6.2 - my first PC (386 cpu, 4 MB ram, 250 MB hdd, Oak Tech. vga card with 256 KB of memory), long nights spent on playing Wolfenstien 3D, Test Drive 2, Eye of the Beholder and so on.
Win 95 - when I've bought 4 MB ram more to my PC, I've installed that OS (it last about 2 hours), then I've change PC to 486 cpu so it worked quite fine.
Win 98 - hah, when I've bought P166 cpu with Voodoo Rage graphic card (3dfx roxxxx in that time) I've switched to 98. All I remember is that great blue screen all the time :smile:
Win XP - last windows OS I've use. Quite good times with Cool Edit Pro, Jasc Paintshop Pro and other soft I was using. And long long hours spent on playing Baldur's Gate (it wasn't a game, it was and still is a GREAT book to read).
Then came linux time:
Ubuntu 6.10 - my first linux, I remember that I felt in love from the first kiss with that OS (it was great change since win os).
Linux Mint, OpenSUSE, Debian - for about 2 years I was exploring other distros to find the best one. All of mentioned here stayed with me for some time, but I was still looking for this one and only.
Gentoo Linux - I'm in love with that OS since December 2008. Works great, this is one of the best linux os for personal customization, but it needs some time to make it worts using (compilation from sources takes about 24 hours to make a fully useful os with graphic interface). Still in use, I don't think to change it right now.
Freduardo
11-03-2010, 05:15 PM
PC-DOS 4.01
On our first family computer, an IBM PS/1.
What can I say, it ran Wolfenstein, Wolf3D, Outrun and Stunts. I was a happy 10 year old :D.
Win95 -> Win98se
The little I did with it was mostly school work, so yeah no real problems.
WinME
Disastrous, everyone knows that. To my own shame I have to admit I used it for quite some time. Pressing the reset button became a reflex that took some time to grow out of afterwards :S
WinXP
Decent, if you accept its limitations. Clogging up, defragmenting, etc became hell after a while though. I currently still use either XP or Win 7 purely for some games though.
Mandrake 10.0
First Linux OS. Can't say it was love at first sight. Apart from my own noob moves (like reinstalling when I fucked something up that was, in retrospect, quite easily fixed or restored) I never really liked madrake/.rpm. But it intrigued me enough to experiment with it.
Ubuntu 4.10
This thing was awesome. Speedy, fun, interesting, stable,... I owe this first release a lot.
Some more *buntu's
I kept using Ubuntu until 7.10 I think. I liked it but less and less. The *buntu of today is really not what I look for in an OS (such bloatware :P).
Debian Sarge -> Lenny
Debian = home.
Arch
If debian is home, arch is my second home. I basically always have both distro's running on some computer.
Apart from Win ME and the usual windows crap, I never had any real OS issues. My secret? Crappy outdated hardware :P
Zordak
11-03-2010, 06:15 PM
PC-DOS 4.01
WinME
Disastrous, everyone knows that. To my own shame I have to admit I used it for quite some time. Pressing the reset button became a reflex that took some time to grow out of afterwards :S
Indeed, that one was so bad it hardly qualifies for a "bad moments" thread.
Z.
Seher
11-03-2010, 06:44 PM
Any windows version I ever had made me learn that making each explorer window run in its own process is very, very, very useful. :D
And I kind of feel like it's getting worse from version to version, but at least killing it doesn't take very long now on win7 :P
NotScias
11-03-2010, 08:24 PM
Atari TOS
My first computer was an Atari, I can't really remember the model. All what I remember is that there was no program installed on it, and it was shipped with a 1000+ pages book for learning BASIC and making programs on Atari.
Win 95
On a dell lattitude xpi. Laptop 128Mhz, 8MB RAM, NeoMagic 128 as GPU. I learn most of Windows and MSDOS on this computer, since all what I was doing was breaking the system (mostly by deleting system files or corrupting the registry), then repairing it (most of the time via MSDOS commandline)
Win 98 SE / Me
On a Pentium II IBM. 64MB RAM, S3 Trio 3D for GPU. Many crashes and blue screens.
Win XP
Well I don't have much to say about it. It is cool, at least at the beggining. I remember I had to format almost every month because it was being bloaty and virus'd. That's here that I started to use Internet too.
Mandrakelinux
After discovering the free software (like Firefox which was in boom these days), I finally discovered that Windows wasn't the only computer OS. And curious like I was, I wanted to try Linux, but this first impression (Mandrake 10.1?) tasted very bad. I was too nooby, and trying to install *.exe programs on it and never figured out how to use the package manager or anything else, so I gave up, and went back on Windows for a while.
Windows Vista
A Catastrophe. Painfully slow, ultra bugged, bloated, annoying and unsecure. Most of software crashing/not working on it. I was totally disappointed, and this is the OS that definately made me switch to Linux (thanks !!!).
Ubuntu 6.10 -> (K)Ubuntu 10.04
Definately disgusted by Windows and especially Vista, I wanted to retry Linux. This time, the impression was very good, and I slowly learned how to use it and found equivalents to almost all my programs. I kept dualboot with XP for a long moment but then I let only Linux on the computer.
In the meanwhile I tested a lot of distros. Debian, Gentoo, OpenSuSE, Mandriva etc... but I was always coming back to Ubuntu, because lacking the simplicity of it.
Archlinux
I did the jump recently, and I totally fell in love with it :wub2:
Miraculix
11-03-2010, 11:17 PM
Haha nice thread :pumpkin:
Let's see...
DOS on a 286 pc: The best of times. Prince of persia, Captain Comic, Saboteur... I was happy for years.
Windows 3.0/3.1: Only booted those to mess with MS Paint. First GUI OS that I saw, was impressive but not much to do on it. I shut it down and fell back to DOS prompt to play Prince of Persia :p
Win98/ME: Blue screens, formatting every month at least, this OS line taught me the importance of keeping back-ups.
Mandrake Linux: First Linux I tried. Couldn't get past the shock of everything being different. Also, I had to go through nine hells to get my dialup to work.
RedHat Linux: Second attempt. I was introduced to RPM hell. I did not like it.
Suse Linux: Third attempt. Everything seemed fine, but I still preferred windows cause of the games. Still hell to get dialup to work.
WinXP: This is where I stopped upgrading Windows. Stable for quite a long time if you treat it well, I've learned to work around it's quirks.
Ubuntu: Fourth and final attempt, partly because I also had to use Linux since I started studying. I loved it and became my main OS since 5.10. I still keep a WinXP partition for gaming and audio work. Not many bad moments in it, except when nvidia decided to fuck up my drivers and I had to fall back to a prompt. Good way to learn how to use VI.
Arafails
11-04-2010, 02:12 AM
Hmm. Let's see.
MSDOS 2.1 on IBM PC: Ye olde 8088. No graphics, just about everything written in BASIC, took ten minutes to make a move in turbochess, but ran Wordperfect 4.2, which was enough for most our family's needs.
MSDOS 6.22/Win3.11: We actually rarely loaded up Windows on this 486, too. Wordperfect ran in DOS, most of the games ran in DOS. I think the main reason for bothering with Win was for Excel.
Windows NT 4.0: I was really annoyed when we upgraded to this because it had one version of DirectX that you couldn't upgrade and didn't run anything. All my friends had '95. Still the same 486 though, so I guess it didn't matter. Eventually started having cryptic kernel crashes that persisted through complete media wipes and reinstallations, though we had a K6-III processor by then.
Solaris x86 v7: What can I say, apart from "LOL"?
Redhat 5.2: Y'know, back before they invented Fedora Core? The NT4 machine got this put on it. Never had any problems, but it was, in retrospect, ugly as sin (GTK 1.0 FTL), it didn't do anything useful apart from web browsing, and RPM.… Oh my, RPM. Grabbing source packages and compiling was actually easier, IMO. And necessary if you wanted updated software (with, for example, smoothed fonts).
Mandrake: Ugly penguin nightmares. Couldn't they at least have hired someone who could draw a freakin' penguin if they're going to put the damned things everywhere? Also, they managed to break RPM even more – how'd they do that?
OpenSuSE 10.2: YaST was cool, but otherwise was more or less a repeat of Deadrat, but in green.
Debian: Was still on Potato when I joined the cult, which was old by then. Very outdated software. But the package manager worked, and the main thing I remember is that /etc/network/interfaces is gold compared to the old Redhat network config system. I very quickly learned it also has a vastly superior packaging, or more importantly package distribution system, and was running the "unstable" distro within a month ("Woody/Sid", lol. Ah, Toy Story). I was on Debian when the Linux desktop started to look better than Windows. I'm still running Debian (unstable) today. I rarely have problems, well except for that the desktop Linux revolution never happened.
Ubuntu: I first checked this out very late, with 8.04. My thoughts were "Well that's very neatly packaged." I watched the degradation of quality through the next three releases, but 10.04 was a nice surprise. Given that they now have provision for update of drivers outside the release cycle, et cetera, LTS releases of Ubuntu would be what I install on other persons' computers.
Syd_Vicious
11-04-2010, 03:13 AM
Radio Shack TRS-80 - Used cartridges that were about 1.5" thick and about 3 high by 4 wide, played pitfall on a monochrome screen. Used Microsoft basic if I could remember correctly. Did not have a word processor for it, I would usually type something and then run the print command.
Tandy 3000 (286, 16mhz CPU, 20 mb HD, 5.25 and later 3.5 floppy) - Ran IBM DOS on it then upgraded to MS-DOS 3.0. Found it funny that I had to park the hard drive even though I never drove it anywhere. Stopped using it after the hard drive caught fire.
486 DX2-66 later upgraded to a pentium 133 - My cousins system ran Win 3.11 and then later Win 95. I played on it a lot, typically because he crashed it a lot. I was totally turned off to Windows at this point.
AMD K6-2 - 500 mhz loaded Mandrake 6 on this machine as well as had a Win 98 SE partition for games. Hardware support was not very good at this time and I did not have the internet. Purchased Mandrake 6 from CompUSA, but then went back and got SuSe 7 Professional. I was a little intimidated at first when I seen it had 6 CDs and a DVD for the install, until I figured out I didn't need them all. Decided at that point if I stick with Linux then I should get the internet and hopefully only need 2 CDs for install from then on. Stuck with SuSe 7 for a time until I got married in 2001. My wife looked like a monkey in front of a monolith though when I showed it to her, so I then had to downgrade my system and go with Win XP later.
My AMD system has pretty much evolved into quite a few of the processors afterwords > Athlon Thunderbird > XP > X2 > Phenom II x3 (cpu fan failed in the middle of the night with it running) and now Phenom II x4
After a while I quit listening to my wife and reloaded Linux. I was using slackware for a little while until I seen that Gentoo had come out and was gaining popularity due to supposedly having a kick ass system with portage. Tried it at version 2, wasnt very impressed. Started looking again used Fedora 2, wasn't impressed and looked somemore. Deployed a couple times. Decided on Debian and went with Ubuntu 8.04. Distro hopped a bunch between Sabayon, Arch, Chakra, Chronos, Epidemic, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Salix, Sidux/aptosid, etc... Usually distro hopped due to a crash caused by system updates. Settled back on Mint.
Dracice
11-15-2010, 12:41 AM
MS-DOS - My fist machine was 286 (?16Mhz? i think) with VC most of HW was from dump :razz:and i was using this "OS" till 486DX (windows 3.11 was piece of garbage)
Windows 95-installed on my notebook (toshiba,486DX 66Mhz 256colours!!!!)
not bad for this machine +i started some tests with QBASIC
Windows 98- i got Penitum II !!! 333Mhz 256MiB ram 32MiB nvidia TNT2!!! best machine what i had :theking: (only OS sux like hell,crashes,wiruses,fragmentation ,BSoD was standart )
Windows XP - same machine ^ better stability + alot days killed by playing Red Alert 2 and Warcraft 3 :smile: , then i only upgreading HW ->Duron 800Mhz -> Sempron-> Athlon 2700+ 939
Fedora Linux - around 2005 i get pissed by windows XP (stupid,slow,unstable,unsecure,limited,ugly <-this are words to define windows xp)
So one my friend told me to try Linux (Fedora linux) version 4 or 5 i think,starting with this os was hard for me, but after some weeks (when i learned how work with linux more effectively then with windows) i was happy for a friend's advice (I felt as released from prison :jacky_chun:)
Fedora Linux 6 ^
Fedora Linux 7 ^
Ubuntu - yuck ! fecal colors :crying1: stupid package manager wtf @ sudo ! NOOO! back to fedora:theking:
Fedora Linux 8 ^
Fedora Linux 9 ^
Fedora Linux 10^ -something starting be wrong ... finding new distro
Archlinux - :wub2::wub2:
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