favorite OS of all time?

>>57987353
>>57987413
oops sorry, wrong thread. my bad :)

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After 15+ years of Windows it was like (and has remained) a breath of fresh air.

OSX, any variation

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>>57987474
stay jealous

>>57987505
Jealous of what

>>57987675
If you compare OS X to literal shit, other systems would be equal to toxic waste or liquid AIDS.

>>57987461
same

Windows is just so clunky, slow, and unreliable by comparison.

Mac OSX is superior.

>>57987353
Slackware. I just wish I had time for it.

I use Debian and I love it (slightly less than Slackware).

>>57987944
I don't even own a mac. But I installed OS X on my PC a while ago. Works flawlessly and it's superior to Windows and Linux.
If I wanted to code, browse and watch anime only I'd get a mac.

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posting my OS

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snow leopard was like tiger but better

>>57988193
this isn't a desktop thread retard

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>>57988226
yes it is

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>>57988226
that's why i said 'OS' and not 'desktop'

ubuntu 10.10 was great, but then everyone wanted to have a flashy UI. Feels like every OS is now about looking good and now easy of use or productive.

>>57988216
>you will never have MSN, AIM, and Yahoo conversations though iChat
>you'll never hear the whooshes of multiple incoming messages from cute 14 year old girls
I want to go back.

You do realize that only extremely mentally ill people (ue homosexuals) use mac os, right?

>>57987353
windows xp honestly. simpler times. using ubuntu with xfce now

>>57988060
t. mactoddler

>>57987461
>15+ years of Windows
>still has a school folder
what went wrong?

>>57988386
What is college and grad school?

>>57987353
>I want to pay tribute to OS X Tiger
you should start by learning its name: Mac OS X Tiger not OS X Tiger

>>57988386
Went in the military after high school, now university is free

>>57988433
Disgusting welfare queen

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>>57988455

>>57988476
don't cry, it's your parent's fault that you're a burden on society.

>>57988491
yeah whatever, if we met I'd crush your skull with my bare hands.

>>57988506
>t. fatass with a medical waiver

>>57988476
Don't worry, I like you anon. Wagecucks are just mad that they have to bust their ass all day.

>>57988558
Stop replying to your own posts, bootlicker

>>57987353
>robust
>no backup features
>no cloud/sync features
>no full screen mode
>no trackpad gestures
>no iMessage support
>no compressed memory management

Take your robust OS back to 2003

>>57988558
thanks, dude

>>57988455
You don't know what the word welfare means, do you, anon

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>>57988358

I will never understand the nostalgia for early versions of Windows. It had the slowness of Windows but with the stability of DOS. Windows NT was an actual operating system, and superior in every respect.

I am so glad I never have to deal with BSOD's because of misbehaving programs again.

>>57987413
Linux is shit

>>57988619
>giving retards money so they can sit around babysitting military bases
>not welfare

>>57988619
how's the G.I. Bill not welfare?

>>57988692
Enjoy your no games

>>57988690
So we should disband the military every time they're not seeing action? Then scramble them all together when shit goes down?
You're the retard.

>>57988706
It's incentive for civilians to agree to 4 years of potentially (although unlikely) life threatening work.

>>57988714
are you calling the founding fathers retards?
>A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

>>57987353
>the absolute peak
that's Snow Leopard fám

>>57988672
Because nostalgia is cancer where it makes some perfect mis-version of what you actually experienced because you only remember the good.

Pining for gray tiles is essentially the same as boomers with a garage full of 50 year old cars that haven't been started in 30.

My favorite OS is Windows 7 and Ubuntu because I can run whatever I want in a VM and are still supported on new hardware. There was no "good ol' days".

>>57988726
>he says while jerking off to his anime desktop

>>57988690
>working as a programmer
>sit in front of pc and earn enough to spend it on useless shit
>meanwhile the people making your coffee or gadgets can barely get by and probably won't even live til 50
>not welfare

You're exploiting so much people with your existence, taking some money from rich shits is not welfare. If he's in the military he has earned it more than you.

>>57987675
Oh shit son an MS paint comic, you sure showed him

>>57988725
>>57988764
it's still welfare even if it's for veterans.

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Windows 98 SE

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>she hands me an old macbook
>"you can have it for parts. screen is broken."
>black macbook 2ghz c2d 2gb / 320gb
>take home
>everything works but screen
>replace with $35 lcd from ebay
>clean install of snow leopard
>damn this thing is actually quick for an old c2d

Snow Leopard is Best X. Why do developers have to bloat shit over time?

windows 7 and xp

>>57988714
Yes, a standing military does not belong in this country.

>>57988818

This. 10.6 was the pinnacle of OS X. It really started to go extra hard down the shitter with 10.10 though.

>>57988764
I'm not a programmer and he certainly hasn't earned anything more than me.

>>57988818
Tell me, do you use any other that's not safari on it?

>>57988876
How many websites don't play nicely with 10.6 Safari? I'd imagine most.

>>57988818
I miss Exposé and Spaces with a passion.

Mission Control was a mistake.

>>57988865
That doesn't matter. If you have a first world job and enough time and money to post here, you have literally no right to complain about others leeching.

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>>57988744

Oh get off your high horse. Some nostalgia is deserved, like for Windows NT.

>>57988930
Yes, I do. I pay taxes, unfortunately, and that faggot takes up the lion's share since I am, thankfully, a resident of and running a business in a sane state that doesn't have an income tax.

>>57988918
Expose is still there and so is Spaces.

>>57988734
If your argument involves me needing a time machine it isn't a great argument, times are vastly different than when that quote was written

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>>57988292
Share wallpaper please

>>57988985
You don't belong in this country, then. The era the statement was made in is absolutely irrelevant and you are what's ruining this place.

>>57988952
No, you don't. Taxes, residency, etc. are a made up concept. Hitler made laws about not marrying jews. Does that make it fair? Fuck no.
Just because you think you earned your money rightfully by exploiting others in accordance with the law, doesn't mean it's deserved. If you complain about welfare, just take your precious business to Somalia.

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>>57987353
win95

>>57989035
If you like welfare take your bitch ass to Norway.

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>>57989015

>>57989028
If we didn't have a standing military we would be completely raped in a matter of days. This isn't even an argument, I don't know why you won't let this go.

>>57988690
By that logic the firefighters are also on welfare. Better fire them all and see how you manage when I come over there and burn your house down

>>57989065
I already live in Europe and enjoy the shit out of being NEET. I really enjoy all the positives of living here, so I don't feel bad about paying taxes (I've worked before, just enjoying time off and my savings right now).

First versions of Windows 7 was pretty nice.

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>>57988309
>ubuntu 10.10 was great,
It was perfect... AND THEY RUINED IT!

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>>57988974
Exposé was nerfed to only work with the selected application.

>and so is Spaces
elaborate? are you calling Mission Control "Spaces"?

>>57989176
Firefighters are useful, though, and a lot of departments are volunteer.

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timeless, oh how I miss you Ubuntu 10.10

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>>57987353
Windows 10

Is this the new desktop thread?

>>57989397
Why the fuck did they mess with it? What did we gain from that??

>>57989086
Are you stupid? Who could suddenly invade you? Canada? Mexico?

Every 'enemy' of the United States is so far away that an invading force would take days to reach you and would be noticed from far away. You would have enough time to call up the reserves, deploy the Navy and mount a defense.

During the whole existence of the United States only Japan was able to land troops in Alaska and we all know how that went.

>>57989397
>>57989450

Just use Ubuntu MATE you fucking nerds.

t. Unity user

>>57988876
FireFox just abandoned support for SL (anything below 10.9) this summer. So there's still a relatively recent browser for it.

It will degrade over time I'm sure, but at the moment sites render just fine.

No idea if Flash is current, but I fucking hate Flash and block Flash content.

uBlock works well.

>>57988918
1,000x this. I still like and use the "spaces" part of Mission Control. I've assigned control keys to 12 permanent spaces and specific apps always launch on those. So when I want my browser, for example, I hit control-2.

But I really miss the way it used to work.

>>57989640
>tfw mexico IS invading us

>>57989640
>Are you stupid?
That goes without asking.

>>57988726
osx has no games either retard, windows has them

>>57988903
You can upgrade WebKit to 537 and just about everything works: https://sourceforge.net/projects/leopard-webkit/files/537/

Install Perian and you even get WebM support

>>57991105

I'm still amazed at the amount of educated coders supporting PPC of their own free will.

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>>57988216
My only beef with 10.5/10.6 was how the "metal" theme was unnecessarily dark and broody, making it clash with the brightly colored buttons badly. The lighter "unified" look from Tiger (pic related) was nicer looking while accomplishing the same thing.

Mavericks is my personal favorite when it comes to UI themes, carrying the most refined form of Aqua to date. Yosemite and up take the flat thing way too far.

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Android 4.4.4
Windows 7 SP1
OS X 10.6.8

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>>57991572
For comparison, here's Leopard/Snow Leopard's darker metal

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>>57991632
and finally the midground Mavericks hit

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High tier.

>>57991105
Well fuck am I surprised. Does Perian actually work, though? Is it inline? Last I checked it was old shit that I couldn't get working.

>>57991375
Well I mean why let perfectly functional, reasonably powerful machines just rot away? It's not as the stuff running Snow Leopard are Apple IIs or something. There's plenty they can still do, especially if they're running well-written resource-conscious software and not 50,000 ton electron-based text editors and the like.

>>57991666
Perian works fine with 10.6 and can be coaxed to work as far up as 10.9. Only recently with the stripping out of the legacy Quicktime plugin system in 10.10+ has Perian lost most of its functionality.

>>57991375
I will never forget the first time I used a powerbook, I could not get over how responsive it was compared to everything I'd used prior.

>>57991650
>that ad
I wonder who was the target for that...

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>>57987353
Tiger's my favourite OS overall. If it had Panther's pinstriping but didn't have the brushed metal it'd be perfect.

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>mfw still use a PowerBook G4 running Tiger regularly
One of these days I'm going to upgrade it with a 120GB SSD and swap the 1024x768 TN panel for a 1400x1050 IPS panel

>>57991790
Scientists and professionals unlike today.

I think I've used every version of OS X since 10.1. And I used System 9 a bit (what a steaming pile that was.) I think 10.4 or 10.5 is about where they seemed to get all the major important features done, and after that it's kind of all been incremental or relatively less important changes. But I've also been waiting for ZFS since 10.4 or 10.5... Why the fuck are we still stuck on HFS+??

BeOS

>>57992010
Apple was whole hog on ZFS and had even distributed a preview to devs (you could format ZFS disks with Disk Utility!) but then Oracle bought Sun and refused the guarantee Apple that they wouldn't be sued for including ZFS in OS X. Oracle turned a nugget of gold into toxic waste as far as Apple Legal was concerned.

That's why we now have APFS coming up with 10.13. Presumably that's been in the works ever since Sun got bought.

>>57992067

Are you shitting me? Is there anything in this world that Oracle has NOT destroyed? Just when I thought I couldn't hate Oracle more.

I hadn't even heard of APFS, thanks for the heads up.

>win 2000 pro
>7
>xubuntu

it's irrelevant to compare these but every other thing I've pretty much disliked

>>57992087
Even Mac users cannot escape the all-reaching tendrils of The Dark Oracle

>>57992087
>Is there anything in this world that Oracle has NOT destroyed?
Related to Sun? No. ZFS doesn't belong on the desktop, anyway.

I just installed elementaryOS on my thinkbad

i like it... a lot shinier than lubuntu

>>57992153
And HFS+ doesn't belong anywhere so it still would've been a step in the right direction.

>>57992021
>BeOS
This. It was so goddamn ahead of its time.

>>57992171
It's not that bad, but what really should have happened is that OS X shipped with APFS, or at least was in testing.

>>57992193
You can test APFS if you're running Sierra right now, but it has problems and really isn't ready for primetime. Very very beta and nothing you'd want to do day to day work on (yet). If they'd made all Sierra installs run APFS by default they wouldn't had a disaster on their hands.

>>57992214
>wouldn't
*would've

>>57992214
I'm say that 10.0 should have shipped with a brand new file system (that I assume would have been called APFS) or at least the brand new file system should have been in the works. HFS+ should have never been anything other than a stopgap.

>>57992246
Ahh ok, didn't catch that.

I see what you're saying, but I disagree. OS X 10.0 was still a mess in many respects, and most Mac users didn't switch to it full time until 10.2. The OS 9 to OS X user transition lasted well into the 10.4 era and would've dragged on even longer had Apple not switched from PPC to Intel and making booting or virtualizing OS 9 totally impossible. Even then, Carbon apps (e.g. OS 9 apps adjusted just enough to run on OS X too) didn't disappear until Apple made it clear that Carbon was going to be permanently stuck in 32-bit land.

All of this predicates an HFS+ environment because OS 9 and even Carbon stuff wouldn't play nicely with other filesystems; there were just too many assumptions that the host FS was HFS+. The soonest they could've made a different FS standard without pissing off a bunch of people was 10.7 or so, and the earliest feasible testing might've been around 10.5.

>>57992334
You're not wrong, I was one of those still using OS9, but since when was Apple really all that worried about pissing off legacy users? At least it would have been for the better. 10.6 or 10.7 would have been a better time, as well. There's really no reason for HFS+ to lasted in OS X for 15 years.

>>57992370
>all this talk about hfs+

This has never bothered me or caused any problems. It is simply a non-issue to the end user.

Don't get me wrong, I know the missing features and issues that are driving Apple to create APFS. And once we have Clones within the file system I will wonder how I lived without it.

But when /g/ has a fit about HFS+ I roll my eyes because it's not an issue unless you're managing a server. And Apple literally gave up the server market any way.

>>57992643
I'm not bothered by HFS+, personally, but I don't think that it was the right way to go about it.

>>57991713
>There's plenty they can still do, especially if they're running well-written resource-conscious software and not 50,000 ton electron-based text editors and the like.

This is what pisses me off about modern IT. My G5 hauls ass on everything except the web. The MacBook I just restored with SL can even handle the web OK, and would really be quick with a SSD.

There is NOTHING software wise that has appeared since SL that justifies the pressure on hardware. Not only should C2D and Core Duo Macs still be usable, but so should the G5s.

I'm glad Moore's Law is dying/dead. Maybe there will be a renewed emphasis on code efficiency.

>>57988564
Right in the member berries

>>57992697
What should really piss you off is that almost all of it is related to ads and analytics. Someone should make a world wide web that isn't bloated.

>>57992659
Engineering wise you have a point, but OS X was dead in the water without a clean migration path for Mac OS 9 users. That forced HFS+.

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>>57992724
Oh believe me, it pisses me off.

>>57988714
The Romans had a standing army that was mainly idle and their empire collapsed

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>>57992697
Yep. It's sometimes handy that mainstream operating systems do as much as they do these days but it'd be great if the Mac OS of 2016 was as lightweight as classic Mac OS was where many programs were heavier than the OS they ran on.

As for the web, it's overloaded, plain and simple. It does too much and as a result doesn't do anything particularly well. Its only redeeming quality is that it's available everywhere, but the price for that is that it's the hummer of the digital world, gulping down memory and occupying 10% of your 6700k to provide functionality that took a thousandth as much power a couple decades ago.

>>57992866
It doesn't do too much, it does exactly the same thing it did 15 years ago but with higher and higher resource requirements. What the hell is going on?

>>57987353
>scatto menu
can't make this shit up

I love my *nixes, but Win2k is probably my favorite operating system overall from the perspective of user experience, combining the apex classic interface and modernity of NT with the convenience and most of the compatibility of the 9x systems. 10.4 gets honorable mention too for some similar reasons, though I'm pretty partial to the shitty pin stripe spam in earlier versions.

>>57993238
>it does exactly the same thing it did 15 years ago
Maybe if you boil it down to absurdly fundamental ideas, yes, but the way we design and expect web pages to act is very different from the static, mostly pure HTML/CSS content we were surfing in 2001. Hell, surf the web archive for a bit, it's amazing to see just how different those sites used to be in ways we hardly remember.

>>57992096
Best taste ITT.

>>57993333
>we design and expect web pages to act is very different from the static, mostly pure HTML/CSS content we were surfing in 2001.
>ads
>trackers
>auto play ad movies
>popup divs with ads
>drop down divs with ads
>side in divs with ads
>layer upon layer of js so pajeet can use meme framework of the week rather than learning the fucking DOM
>did i mention the ads?

>>57991650

Still love Jaguar.

Pinstripes are great.

For the last 15 years, Slackware. Before that, Windows 3.11

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>>57987353

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I'm losing my shit.
I'm not even using the OS directly and its causing me grief.

This shit turned off on me twice while I was using my Gentoo virtual machine on hyper-v.

>>57994323
I want to kill myself when I see registry or task sheduler

>>57994329
It has re-enabled the reboot service twice now that I am aware of.

I went ahead and just deleted (not disabled) every service in the update folder for good measure.

>>57988764

>person making the coffee has a job because of a programmer
>millions of poor chinese exfarmers have a job that pays more than pure sustenance making gadgets for the programmers and baristas

you're a fucking muppet

>>57994338
I'm so happy I never had to deal with Windows during the last year and probably won't have to in the near future. Hackintosh at home, Linux at work. It's a truly liberating feeling.

>>57988292
>>57988279
gtfo.

>>57994338
Why dont you stop scheduler altogether? Theres nothing of value.

>>57987353
>favorite DE of all time?
fixd

>>57989437
non-SSD peasant

>>57987353
Ubuntu 10.04

>>57994369
>Hackintosh at home, Linux at work.
Maybe it's just the tech-oriented bubble I'm in but it feels like hackintoshing is really starting to pick up. It's not hitting mainstream consumers any time soon but I'm seeing them popping up more and more lately.

>>57994618
>>57988279
your welcome

>>57991572
the icons in Tiger were fucking shit compared to the literal perfection that were the Leopard icons.

>>57994618
It's your bubble most likely. I only know 3 guys at work who hackintosh, one of them ended up buying a real macbook because it was too much of a hassle for him.
It's not for everyone - you either have to build a box according to compatibility guides, or get lucky with your current config.

>>57987461
I still can't believe that the model identifier is four/two thunderbolt 3 ports instead of touchbar and non touchbar

>>57987461
>4 thunderbolts
>3 ports
w
e
w

>>57988592
>lists a bunch of post-2010-features like imessage, trackpad gestures and cloud to an OS from 2004
millenials truly are cancer

>>57991977
this saddens me. now they want to sell their fucking iphones and a music subscription on top.

>>57993989
this is why i've stopped surfing the web and only visit selected sites. and this is why i will use this i3-machine till the day it dies on me.

>>57994391
>Why dont you stop Windows altogether? Theres nothing of value.

>>57994728
>save cool old guy's photos
>"hey anon, you want an old computer?"
>sure why not
>it's a dell desktop
>that just so happens to be a perfect match for hackintosh
>WINNING

>>57993989
Install ublock/umatrix, whitelist cookies, and set plugins to click to play.
If you notice that some site stops working, then it's a shitty site and it doesn't deserve being browsed.

>>57988309
was it really any better than ubuntu mate or xubuntu is right now?

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Are there only mactoddlers there? Anyone with appreciation for real operating systems?

>>57994558
10.10 is the perfect version of that, why 10.04?

>>57987353
macOS by far. Don't meme it until you've tried it. Anyone that used it knows the difference. You can't explain it. It's just fucking Apple.

Used Windows my whole life. I mean... It's Windows... Meh. Eventually I grew up from video games... And then I got tired of having to do my regular Windows re-installations to make it fresh again. You know what I'm talking about and I got to thinking... I literally don't use the benefit of Windows, which is gaymes, so why am I cucking myself on purpose?

I absolutely hate the features of Windows. I never use them and they're just there... Like Internet Explorer, OneDrive, etc. I always have to fight with it and modify it for it to work right. Why not just go to Apple?

Tried Linux too... lol... At least it's great for servers.

>>57994323
>View Friends List
>0 Online

I feel you.

>>57997947
I used CDE on Debian for a bit.

>>57998005
Where do technology illiterate mactoddlers get the false impression that they or their fruity toddler toys are welcome much less belong on a technology board?