What's the oldest usable version of operating systems for

XP is barely usable and looks like shit
macOS Snow Leopard, but only for really light things
Linux Distros: I'm not autistic

>Windows: 7
>macOS: 10.8
>Linux Distros: some old CentOS

I think the oldest version of CentOS still in support has a (very late) 2.6 series kernel.

there's a lot less reason to stick with an old OS in the Linux world though. On Windows and Mac people have to avoid the anti-features MS and Apple like putting in their software, on Linux that either doesn't happen at all, or you're free to swap to a different DE or what have you.

>>58407071
Install OpenBSD and use you're iMac to host a *chan

iOS10 removed support for macs that can't run iTunes 12.5.1
Apple really is a shitty company.

>>58407071
Mac OS9 is usable for basic web browsing.

>>58409023
There are already enough shitty chans on the internet.

>standard use
Windows 98.

KernelEX and a ton of work, and you can get a modern web browser working, you can probably get MS Office going the same way.
As long as the hardware is modern, it will be usable, no different from anything else.

>>58409283
Does 98 even have proper wireless support?

>b/g/n
>wpa

Windows XP is dogshit unless you keep it offline.

>>58407071
AmigaOS

>>58409505
Yes? The support comes from drivers not the OS.

>>58409505
My goto for wireless on old windows is Cisco aironet series, shit works on 3.11

>>58409224
that's why you make one that isn't shitty

>>58407071
GNU/Linux distro*

>>58407071
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!