Least Favourite OS

[Xzi]

Vista was hands down the worst, so much so that 95% of people ignored it from launch until EOL, in favor of WinXP. Trying to troubleshoot on Vista was a nightmare, and it just looked like garbage in general with all the pre-installed bloatware and desktop widgets.

 

[SAIYAN48]

Vista started off pretty neat as Longhorn, then it got shitty.

 

[FAST6191]

On Vista. If you did not buy a laptop with "vista ready" stickers on it and maybe only used it at end of life it was not the worst thing out there.


Anyway I have never been fond of Apple's operating systems.
Generally they think they know better than me about what I should be doing with my system, even more so nowadays with that whole needs to activate thing, and what is basic functionality in Windows and Linux world tends to cost you money you would likely not care to lose and still not be that good. Wind in the custom hardware and... yeah.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Windows 8.1, for me it froze all the time, it even froze when I went to the fucking start menu

 

[tabzer]

Windows Vista or ME, but then again they would let you do more than you could with a command prompt based OS.

Then we have Apple, who is threatened by people who know how the tech works.

 

[Deleted member 397813]

Windows 10. EASILY.
oh yeah and chrome os and osx

 

[tglaria]

Windows 10. EASILY.
oh yeah and chrome os and osx

how can you have 3 options as the worst?

 

[Spring_Spring]

how can you have 3 options as the worst?

windows 10 as the worst + 2 honourable mentions

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

windows 10 as the worst + 2 honourable mentions

dishonorable mentions*

 

[Spring_Spring]

my least favourite, in the contemporary market is probably also windows 10. I don't even touch apple devices but maybe they are worse, I doubt it though. They are both rather patronizing in their user experience, but at least apple seems a bit more technically solid and not too plagued with wierd bugs. Though linux has a lot of wierd bugs as well, but at least if something breaks you usually have more options about what to do about it :3

 

[magypsy3]

Windows 8, 8.1 and MacOS.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

OS X. Apple just has to do everything differently, and it makes navigating it when you're not used to it excruciatingly painful. Makes me wanna punch something.

 

[Pleng]

TempleOS

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I don't think I really have a least favorite OS TBH, I've used various OS's throughout the years nowadays and most of them are just fine for what most people do.

I think the OS I've had the most problems with though is probably macOS, but that's only because the majority of my experience with it has either been on old ass Macs or via hackintoshing, each which have their own quirks and issues, but those are less related to the OS and more related to the hardware and how only Apple products can officially exist in their own little bubble.

Vista I also don't have a problem with, because the majority of the issues people had with Vista were not OS-only related so much as they were with hardware manufacturers that A) sold "Vista capable!" PCs that were not, in fact, Vista capable whatsoever and B) Couldn't be assed to create new drivers for the new OS, which caused stability issues. I suppose you could argue high hardware requirements being a problem but really beyond that, some bloat, and the usual launch bugs literally every OS faces the first year, there was nothing overly wrong with Vista beyond perhaps being different.

 

[Tweaker_Modding]

windows 10 can fuck right off

 

[Deleted User]

every linux distro.

 

[duwen]

Everything Apple have done since the original OSX first debuted 20ish years ago. When it was OSX vs XP It was an OS I'd much rather use over Windows any day of the week. Each subsequent update makes it more of a hobbled experience that you have such limited control over, and is so massively resource hungry, that (if it weren't for the fact that Macs are the 'defacto' industry standard in my line of work) I'd happily never touch one ever again!
By way of comparrison, the Mac I'm currently using with its 2 x 2.4 GHz 6-core and 12Gb of ram is (on paper) at least twice as good as my home, Win10, PC with its 4-core 3GHz and 8Gb of ram... yet the windows machine can perform the exact same tasks up to four times quicker and with far fewer crashes.

 

[tfocosta]

Windows Millennium Ed., Vista and Windows 8 are definitely the ones I hate the most.

On the other hand, I miss Windows XP and Windows 7.

 

[RichardTheKing]

Windows 10 isn't the best either; I've had issues with it. One big one is that the icons on the taskbar occasionally disappear after leaving my laptop in sleep mode for some time, with the only real way to fix it being to completely restart the laptop - which means losing tab history, closing all the programs I had open, and just generally being a pain in the arse.

Haven't had that issue with macOS, ever.

I also particularly hate how OneDrive becomes the default Documents and Desktop when used, replacing the local computer's Documents and Desktop. I had to place a shortcut to my local Documents on Quick Access, and trying to save Office files is a pain since I need to specify local storage each time.
Fuck you, OneDrive; you make my fans run hard when open due to all the changes you need to process, so I never launch you. Even when closed, you're still an utter pain in the arse.

And why hasn't Microsoft added tab support to File Explorer?

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

Windows ME. (Mistake Edition)

Made me lose my high school post pubescent temper and threw a PC that had it down the stairs.