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What OS(es) would you install on your computer if you could install any (real-life) OSes?

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
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Win7 or Win8.1, WinXP, Win3.1, Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
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  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    why do you tag things flamebait
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Jane said:

    why do you tag things flamebait

    for fun and profit
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I am imagining GMH trying to run Windows 3.1 on a modern Intel i7 with some absurd amount of RAM and it's quite an amusing mental image.

    To answer the question: Windows 7 or 10, some kind of Linux (no particular preference, though I'd like Xfce as my desktop environment), or FreeBSD.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    oh, did I say 3.1?  I meant 3.11
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Not 3.2, that weird obscure version that was only ever released in Chinese?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    CentralAvenue said:

    Not 3.2, that weird obscure version that was only ever released in Chinese?

    wasn't that 3.33?
  • FossilmaidenFossilmaiden
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    I use only the very finest copy of Windows Nashville.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    edited 2016-05-17 20:40:39
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    glennmagusharvey said:

    CentralAvenue said:

    Not 3.2, that weird obscure version that was only ever released in Chinese?

    wasn't that 3.33?
    http://toastytech.com/guis/win32.html
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    An up-to-date version of XP would definitely be relevant to my interests. I really like each new iteration of OSX, though, especially now that I barely have to switch partitions to play games anymore.
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
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    (oh hey, the toastytech guy thinks smartphones are for idiots who only watch cat videos. So nice to have my intelligence insulted by a fuddy-duddy who thinks it should still be 1995.)
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Haven said:

    An up-to-date version of XP would definitely be relevant to my interests. I really like each new iteration of OSX, though, especially now that I barely have to switch partitions to play games anymore.

    Why don't you have to switch partitions?
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    glennmagusharvey said:

    Haven said:

    An up-to-date version of XP would definitely be relevant to my interests. I really like each new iteration of OSX, though, especially now that I barely have to switch partitions to play games anymore.

    Why don't you have to switch partitions?
    Because most games are released on Mac now too, as compared to the days of yore when literally everything was PC-exclusive.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2016-05-17 20:57:00
    Haven said:

    glennmagusharvey said:

    Haven said:

    An up-to-date version of XP would definitely be relevant to my interests. I really like each new iteration of OSX, though, especially now that I barely have to switch partitions to play games anymore.

    Why don't you have to switch partitions?
    Because most games are released on Mac now too, as compared to the days of yore when literally everything was PC-exclusive.
    Oh, that.

    Yeah, most of my games are Windows exclusives.

    (That said I'm more likely to switch to Linux so I'd probably care more about Linux compatibility...)
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    lee4hmz said:

    (oh hey, the toastytech guy thinks smartphones are for idiots who only watch cat videos. So nice to have my intelligence insulted by a fuddy-duddy who thinks it should still be 1995.)

    anything he wrote after 2006 or so isn't worth reading because by then he just started ranting about things he disliked instead of properly reviewing desktop user interfaces

    but his older stuff still holds up, to me
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-05-17 23:45:53
    Win7 or Ubuntu.  Probably Ubuntu by now because 7 is deprecating fast.
  • TreTre
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    Windows 7 for games and OS X Snow Leopard for literally everything else.

    Maybe Xubuntu circa 2011 as well if performance is a concern.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    CentralAvenue said:

    lee4hmz said:

    (oh hey, the toastytech guy thinks smartphones are for idiots who only watch cat videos. So nice to have my intelligence insulted by a fuddy-duddy who thinks it should still be 1995.)

    anything he wrote after 2006 or so isn't worth reading because by then he just started ranting about things he disliked instead of properly reviewing desktop user interfaces

    but his older stuff still holds up, to me
    how do you know the dates?
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I guess he doesn't put dates on his stuff

    But anything from Windows Vista onward is just him ranting about how much he hates Microsoft
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    oh
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Microsoft Boob
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Also depending on how we'd define "computer" I'll also say Android 5 or later

    I haven't tried Android 6 yet, but if it's anything like Android 5 I'm sure I'd like it

    IRL my smartphone is still stuck on Android 4.4 but oh well
  • TreTre
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    Marshmallow is functionally a more stable version of Lollipop with a couple small new features and one big feature that only sometimes works, so if you're a fan of the latter you'd probably be just fine with the former.
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    edited 2016-05-18 01:07:30
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    CentralAvenue said:

    I guess he doesn't put dates on his stuff


    But anything from Windows Vista onward is just him ranting about how much he hates Microsoft
    yup...his Windows 10 "review" comes dangerously close to being Complaining About OSes You Haven't Used (just so he can dunk on Microsoft some more like it's still the goddamn 1990s :P)

    Microsoft may still be huge and greedy, but they're not the only game in town like they used to be.
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    edited 2016-05-18 01:16:53
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    he sounds less like a serious tech writer and more like the sorts of people who used to be like LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY AMIGA. Or the alt.destroy.microsoft types who wanted either Microsoft or Bill Gates himself to be tortured gruesomely.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2016-05-18 01:28:01
    CentralAvenue said:

    Also depending on how we'd define "computer" I'll also say Android 5 or later


    I haven't tried Android 6 yet, but if it's anything like Android 5 I'm sure I'd like it

    IRL my smartphone is still stuck on Android 4.4 but oh well
    i wish my smartphone still ran android 4.4 but NOOOOO can't de-update, fug

    updating was a mistake
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    I can't tell whether toastytech actually likes any OS, TBH.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    synthesis OS by alexia massalin
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    glennmagusharvey said:

    CentralAvenue said:

    Also depending on how we'd define "computer" I'll also say Android 5 or later


    I haven't tried Android 6 yet, but if it's anything like Android 5 I'm sure I'd like it

    IRL my smartphone is still stuck on Android 4.4 but oh well
    i wish my smartphone still ran android 4.4 but NOOOOO can't de-update, fug

    updating was a mistake
    *smacks*


    Section42L said:

    I can't tell whether toastytech actually likes any OS, TBH.

    He praises most of the original Mac OS stuff and he talks about Windows 95 with a sort of begrudging respect

    It's just that he wants computers to still work the way they did in 1996 and it leads to asinine things like complaining that the Windows calendar app won't work if you don't give it account credentials or getting pissy at UAC for not allowing all executables admin privileges by default like XP did.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-05-18 06:03:52
    To be fair, UAC is a tremendous pain in the ass if you're a developer.  It'll randomly turn on even after you fully disable it, lock you out of source control files for no reason (I've had to contact my IT admin more than once, and at one point it locked him out too), and heaven forbid you're trying to program installers that actually need admin access.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    did the lisp machine have a name for their OS?  that
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    Genera was one
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
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    Before Genera, though, it was just "a LISP machine". Everyone did it a little differently, too, though the hardware was usually PDP-10-ish. 
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    edited 2016-05-18 17:04:16
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    CentralAvenue said:

    Section42L said:

    I can't tell whether toastytech actually likes any OS, TBH.

    He praises most of the original Mac OS stuff and he talks about Windows 95 with a sort of begrudging respect

    It's just that he wants computers to still work the way they did in 1996 and it leads to asinine things like complaining that the Windows calendar app won't work if you don't give it account credentials or getting pissy at UAC for not allowing all executables admin privileges by default like XP did.
    This is actually one of my big pet peeves. I've seen people who've gotten all pissy that the aforementioned LISP machines didn't win out, I've seen people who've complained mightily that we didn't keep improving on Mac System 7 or Mac OS 8/9 and make it into something like unto the LISP machines or the old Burroughs systems, and all these people seem to haaaaaaaaate Unix, too (well, Unix as it was in the 1980s and early 1990s, anyway, since a lot of these rants were written 15-20 years ago). Anyone still believing that we can't make a decent system—even a Unix-based one!—with a decent UI, no required command line usage and instant on/off hasn't used a smartphone or a tablet recently.
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    edited 2016-05-18 17:07:22
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    (Seriously, it's weird how many of these One True OS projects seem to want to reimplement either Genera or the Burroughs B5000. I wonder if they even know about Java. Or Squeak, for that matter, since that seems to be closer to the "1980s OO workstation" feel they're after.)
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
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    Anyway, my point is, it seems like people get so mad about short-term concerns or their own pet peeves that they just can't see the forest for the trees anymore. Things do work out in the end, even if it takes a while to get there.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Being obvious, I'm going with Symbolics Genera
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Also perhaps NeXTSTEP
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    I actually have OPENSTEP-era machines at the house. I wonder if my 486 or my IBM could run it.
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