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I’m with the Penguin. Most reliable (and honest) OS I’ve used.
DOS 3.3 is what I started with in 1988. I got a free copy of Quicken V2 from the Intuit driver (I was with Fedex on the mid-peninsula at the time).
5-1/4” floppies were a big part of my life for a time.
VMS was the best by far.
-SB
Commodore KERNAL (Vic-20),Z-80, CP/M, DOS, Linux 3 (Redhat), windows 3.1, NT, Celerity UNIX, Vax/VMS, IRIX...
I own 7 computers, all have a specifically different purpose, from car repair to satellite TV/radio.
2 are dual boot with Linux as primary. 1 is windows only for my wife’s games, the rest are all Linux.
Living in rural Hawaii the most remote place on earth,
you adjust.
For one thing it is probably the best OS that Microsoft ever put out.
For another, I was working at Best Buy and two days before 9/11 we came in on Sunday morning and got "indoctrinated" about Windows XP: all that it could do, the new features, etc. It was like attending a church service! And then of course two days later the attacks came.
I'm forever going to associate WinXP with that particular time in my life.
Well, AmigaOS was released on the Amiga 1000 in 1985. A fully preemptive multitasking OS with a mouse/windowing GUI. Being able to display 4096 colors on screen with graphics, audio, and IO coprocessors made it a giant leap at the time. Was never huge in the States though.
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OS/2, OS/2 Warp, eComStation and now Arca Noae.
Of all the programs in that time period I think Windows XP was the best and easiest to use of Microsoft’s OS programs. Everything since then has just gotten worse and three years ago I said enough and went to an Apple MacBook Air and will never go back to Windows.
Mostly in order...
8080 processor machine language - front panel switches
Commodore VIC20
MSDOS 3.3, then 5
VMS at work. (I miss the VAX)
Windows 3.3 at work, up to whatever was current in 2020 at work. NT was in there somewhere.
OS/2, but it never took off.
Linux. Still use it in in the Raspberry PI4. A little too Wild West for me otherwise.
FreeBSD for the last twenty-five years or so work and home. Still using it.
Dabbled in QNX off and on out of curiosity. The knowledge came in handy on the job a few times. That’s the one you run nukes on. Start it up and walk away for twenty years.
Not an OS, but did a fair amount of coding and work using the Borland Turbo C environment.
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Windows 10 and 11 have worked perfectly for me. Hardware is very strong these days. More than strong enough to push through any code bloat that Windows 11 allegedly has. I have tried out Mint Linux and it has 3 major drawbacks.
#1- Current Windows has free programs you can get for downloading video and MP3 from YouTube and Rumble. Other video platforms too. I found one for downloading Twitter videos.
#2- At nighttime (Now!) I dampen the blue light from my LED monitor. So that my monitor has a slight red tinge/ Linux Mint has a joke of a program (called Red Shift) for doing this.
#3- Windows 11 Print Screen (screenshot) is greatly improved these days. I use this daily.
These days I like and use a ——>>>
CPU with a Passmark score of 10000
16GB Ram
An NVMe drive of 500 GB with a 1TB 7200 RPM spinning drive for storage
For phones —— Samsung and Android. I will never buy an iPhone from those Cupertino fags/
Good illustration of how sorry Vista and Win8 were. And how good XP was.
Windows XP, then Windows 7, followed by Linux Mint. All of them were/are geared towards the user, not the corporation. I still have a system that I could run XP on, and I have the installation disks. Perhaps, one of these days.......
I somehow missed my favorite in the presentation. Windows ME
/s
This 8088-based kit running DOS 2.1 was a game-changer for me back in 1986.