Weirdest Operating System You have ever Encountered?

[LittleFlame]

Windows Vista
The weirdest thing is that they allowed it to be released in that state

 

[Minox]

Windows Vista
The weirdest thing is that they allowed it to be released in that state

Provided you actually had a strong enough computer with compatible drivers there was nothing wrong with Vista. The problem is that at the time of the Vista launch manufacturers kept selling too weak computers in conjunction with Vista making for an awful user experience.

 

[TeamScriptKiddies]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com,_Inc.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Yeah, Vista wasn't so much a "terrible" OS as it was a power hungry one. It ate RAM like it was nobody's business, hardware vendors didn't bother making compatible drivers for ages, the new memory management released was pretty junk...And, as Minox mentioned, manufacturers were slapping Vista on anything and everything "because new". Part of that might have been Microsoft's fault, since they claimed any PC manufactured in 2005 could run Vista no problems which was hilariously false.

Once Microsoft threw a couple Service Packs on it and hardware vendors actually sort of gave a shit about drivers Vista ends up being quite usable if you really wanted. Unfortunately, Microsoft just decided to throw 7 out there instead which ended up being much better and Vista got abandoned pretty much.


As for on topic, +1 to TempleOS, shit is...super weird. IIRC the guy who made it was like...schizophrenic or something, had a ton of mental issues.

 

[LittleFlame]

Just looked at the Temple OS Vid... i take back everything What the fuck

 

[OrGoN3]

BeOS. Had to use it to decode mp3s in real time. Obviously back in the day.

 

[Taleweaver]

Windows millenium. I mean...people bitch about windows vista and 8, but ME was much, much MUCH worse. I tried running it on two or three computers and ended up reinstalling 98 SE every time after only a couple days (before even installing anything, mind you).

Linux sure has grown a lot. When I first used it fifteen years ago, I couldn't even get the xwindow thing to run (and this was on anything but exotic hardware). Can't recall the name of the distro, though (SuSe, I think...not sure, though).

 

[TeamScriptKiddies]

Windows millenium. I mean...people bitch about windows vista and 8, but ME was much, much MUCH worse. I tried running it on two or three computers and ended up reinstalling 98 SE every time after only a couple days (before even installing anything, mind you).

Linux sure has grown a lot. When I first used it fifteen years ago, I couldn't even get the xwindow thing to run (and this was on anything but exotic hardware). Can't recall the name of the distro, though (SuSe, I think...not sure, though).

I forgot all about ME to be honest. Honestly though, while it was nightmarish for everyone else, I was one of the only people on planet earth I think that didn't have any problems with it.... #illuminati haha

 

[duwen]

Anything made by Apple, post System 7

 

[NicEXE]

I've used quite a few OSes over the years. My argument will only be about their usability.
The weirdest OS that I have encountered was Windows 8. No joke. The first time I touched it, it made me think "this is what people must be feeling when they try to operate a computer for their very first time"

 

[DarkFlare69]

Windows 8

 

[Vipera]

Austrumi

 

[Tomobobo]

I forgot all about ME to be honest. Honestly though, while it was nightmarish for everyone else, I was one of the only people on planet earth I think that didn't have any problems with it.... #illuminati haha

Gotta call you out on this one there's no way. I had a Compaq ME machine blue screen the first day I brought it home. Just browsing on AOL and bam. I don't want to think about ME.

 

[XDel]

I guess I'd say OS X and previous versions of Mac OS. I can use them quite well at this point, but they are so drastically different than everything else in some ways, plus the lack of second mouse button (by default) makes for a lot of extra reading if you just want to use your computer and do with it what you want.

My favorite would be BeOS/Haiku. Runner up would be MorphOS, and then Amiga Workbench.
Though at the time of writing this I am using LInux Mint.

 

[TeamScriptKiddies]

Gotta call you out on this one there's no way. I had a Compaq ME machine blue screen the first day I brought it home. Just browsing on AOL and bam. I don't want to think about ME.

Mine was a custom built pc with a pentium 200mhz and it ran ME beautifully. It makes no sense, but not.a single issue with it...