A new Operating System, (cheers, trumpet fanfare). !
Have to try it now, immediately. It is new so it must be good. After all the hype says so.
Yes, then reality hits like a brick to the back of the head.
Windows 1.0. A GUI over DOS. Brave start but a lost argument against the first Apple Mac GUI system.
Dos 4.1. The Windows you have when you don't have Windows. The Dos-Shell attempt at a GUI was losing to X-Tree before the race started. X-Tree was simple, logical and worked.
Windows 95, more time looking at the BSOD than actually using this nice bright shiny new Operating System. Oh, and the different sub-variants, a, b, and if my addled old brain can recall, variant 3. And never the three would, “talk” to certain programs. Better to run Windows in DOS mode.
Windows ME. Mistake Edition was closer to a description. The most unstable Operating System ever to be foisted on users.
Windows Vista. Ground breaking in many ways but a hog at the trough when it came to resources. I am in two minds about Vista. The 32 bit version could be made to behave and stick to a diet when major intestinal surgery was carried out. In all, Vista was for the serious, “tweaker – probably not a good word to use these days) but Vista paved the way albeit in a lumbering way for Windows 7 and beyond.
Windows 8. Just Windows 8 with the new all singling all dancing Metro tiles and no real access to the desktop, “out of the box”.
Windows 10. Not a good start and will always be a, “work in progress”. Privacy concerns, Microsoft Edge way behind Google Canary 64 bit or Palemoon 64 bit as browser. Tied tighter than a hangman's noose to Bing. Have installed Windows 10 a few times and became, um mildly annoyed with it and uninstalled it again. Enough said.
Linux. Brilliant at the speed of operation. Let down by lack of most popular software. Troubles with the Wubi installer (Ubuntu and Linux Mint). Wubi was withdrawn.
I venture into waters either uncharted or with gun boats and submarines wanting my demise if I list my opinions with regard to the best Operating Systems. But, these are my favoured Operating Systems. No, I will refuse a blindfold but will have the last cigarette when I am put against a wall. Um, please use a Barrett M-107. One shot should see me off.
The best Operating Systems. My opinions anyway. Feel free to disagree or to call me a silly old fool.
The clear winner. Microsoft XP in all it's variants either 32 or 64 bit. Still a fresh and user friendly and, “all things to all men – and ladies”. As we see XP nearing 14 years of use, still the classic that copes with all that can be thrown at it. Infinitely tweakable, solid and reliable. Strange, with XP 64 bit some 64 bit drivers and programs baulked. But with more and more 64 bit programs being released XP 64 bit has had a shave, a haircut and shoe shine, and I think is coming into it's own.
Windows 8.1. Here is where the firing squad starts taking aim at me. My current PC hardware is not backwards compatible for Windows 7 or XP. So, I am stuck with either Windows 8.1 or go kicking and screaming to Windows 10. However Windows 8.1 can be modified, have it's arms twisted behind it's back,be water boarded, and be made an offer it can not refuse. (sorry Godfather).
Windows 8.1 can become the, “new XP”. In fact I begin to treat Windows 8.1 as XP and that, “funny familiar forgotten feeling starts walkin' all over my mind”. Sorry Englebert.
Linux Mint 17.1 64 bit “Mate” version. Sheer speed and stability. But one needs a fair bit of Linux knowledge to make quite a few command line changes. The Linux Operating System is quite brilliant but years behind as regards software.
Puppy Linux. A fun lightweight Operating System good enough to play with but not for anything serious. More a Linux Operating system to experiment with on a rainy cold afternoon.
Ok, these are my opinions, take aim, fire. !.
Feel free to bury me with agreement or contra views.
Cheers to all,
Aunty Jack.
Have to try it now, immediately. It is new so it must be good. After all the hype says so.
Yes, then reality hits like a brick to the back of the head.
Windows 1.0. A GUI over DOS. Brave start but a lost argument against the first Apple Mac GUI system.
Dos 4.1. The Windows you have when you don't have Windows. The Dos-Shell attempt at a GUI was losing to X-Tree before the race started. X-Tree was simple, logical and worked.
Windows 95, more time looking at the BSOD than actually using this nice bright shiny new Operating System. Oh, and the different sub-variants, a, b, and if my addled old brain can recall, variant 3. And never the three would, “talk” to certain programs. Better to run Windows in DOS mode.
Windows ME. Mistake Edition was closer to a description. The most unstable Operating System ever to be foisted on users.
Windows Vista. Ground breaking in many ways but a hog at the trough when it came to resources. I am in two minds about Vista. The 32 bit version could be made to behave and stick to a diet when major intestinal surgery was carried out. In all, Vista was for the serious, “tweaker – probably not a good word to use these days) but Vista paved the way albeit in a lumbering way for Windows 7 and beyond.
Windows 8. Just Windows 8 with the new all singling all dancing Metro tiles and no real access to the desktop, “out of the box”.
Windows 10. Not a good start and will always be a, “work in progress”. Privacy concerns, Microsoft Edge way behind Google Canary 64 bit or Palemoon 64 bit as browser. Tied tighter than a hangman's noose to Bing. Have installed Windows 10 a few times and became, um mildly annoyed with it and uninstalled it again. Enough said.
Linux. Brilliant at the speed of operation. Let down by lack of most popular software. Troubles with the Wubi installer (Ubuntu and Linux Mint). Wubi was withdrawn.
I venture into waters either uncharted or with gun boats and submarines wanting my demise if I list my opinions with regard to the best Operating Systems. But, these are my favoured Operating Systems. No, I will refuse a blindfold but will have the last cigarette when I am put against a wall. Um, please use a Barrett M-107. One shot should see me off.
The best Operating Systems. My opinions anyway. Feel free to disagree or to call me a silly old fool.
The clear winner. Microsoft XP in all it's variants either 32 or 64 bit. Still a fresh and user friendly and, “all things to all men – and ladies”. As we see XP nearing 14 years of use, still the classic that copes with all that can be thrown at it. Infinitely tweakable, solid and reliable. Strange, with XP 64 bit some 64 bit drivers and programs baulked. But with more and more 64 bit programs being released XP 64 bit has had a shave, a haircut and shoe shine, and I think is coming into it's own.
Windows 8.1. Here is where the firing squad starts taking aim at me. My current PC hardware is not backwards compatible for Windows 7 or XP. So, I am stuck with either Windows 8.1 or go kicking and screaming to Windows 10. However Windows 8.1 can be modified, have it's arms twisted behind it's back,be water boarded, and be made an offer it can not refuse. (sorry Godfather).
Windows 8.1 can become the, “new XP”. In fact I begin to treat Windows 8.1 as XP and that, “funny familiar forgotten feeling starts walkin' all over my mind”. Sorry Englebert.
Linux Mint 17.1 64 bit “Mate” version. Sheer speed and stability. But one needs a fair bit of Linux knowledge to make quite a few command line changes. The Linux Operating System is quite brilliant but years behind as regards software.
Puppy Linux. A fun lightweight Operating System good enough to play with but not for anything serious. More a Linux Operating system to experiment with on a rainy cold afternoon.
Ok, these are my opinions, take aim, fire. !.
Feel free to bury me with agreement or contra views.
Cheers to all,
Aunty Jack.
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