The OS awards.

[Redwolf]

In another thread I ahd posted the following:

DOS ver 3: Lamest DOS ever. Or at least since ver 1.

DOS ver 5: The Now-Were-Getting-Somewhere Award.

DOS ver 6: The Best-DOS-ever-since-DR-DOS award. All it needed was an anti-virus program. No, the MS one doesn't count. It never found a virus, even though norton found 200 of the buggers

Windows 3.0/3.1: The Ahead-of-it's-time award. It was a GREAT version of windows. It just ran on 3 machines when it came out, all being thouroghly tested at Intel as prototypes for processors. And just when computers could handle it, Windows 95 comes out, and sucks. Speaking of which:

Windows 95: The Blue-Screen-of-Agony award. Also the most complicated when I first got it. I mean, registry? What the heck. I STILL don't understand even an 1/8th of it. Why didn't they just stick to using .INI files? The install came with 13 disks. In the age when CD drives were now popular. EVERYONE had a CD-ROM. And they give us 13 freaking disks! C'mon. Oh, and did I mention the crashing was a step BACK from Win 3.1?

Windows 98: The Its-Windows-95-with-less-bugs-and IE-built-in award. I don't understand the Netscape controversy tho. Back in the day when 98 came out, IE was the ONLY browser to use. Netscape was pretty crappy, IMHO, amd didn't get good until ver. 7. Now it's better than IE 6. Imagine that. Anyway, Windows 98 was what Windows 95 should have been (ie less crashing), plus USB support. It also provided endless laughs if you watched CNN that day

Windows ME - The Blue-Screen-of-Deaths-by-Suicidal-Windows-Users award. Wins for being the WORST Windows since 2.0. Too many blue screens, too little life to live.

Windows NT - The Tastes-great-Less-filling award goes to NT, which was way ahead of it's time, but which left power users pondering on why Wordperfect 3 didn't run.

Windows 2000 - The Best-Windows-Two-Hunderd-Dollars-can-buy award. Really, really good, but out of my price range. Well, at least that's what Ebay is for

Windows XP - The More-Hype-Less-Stable award goes to XP. It has horrible emulation (from the people who brought you DOS in the first place, no less ), many 'protected' files (including one that was virus infected on a friend's machine. Had a fun time trying to remove it. Ended up resorting to using KNOPPIX to remove it, which is quite ironic if you think about it), and was so bloated a pin-poke to your hard drive created an earth-shattering boom. No, XP isn't a favorite. Hey, at least Warcraft III Beta crashing won't cause the whole machine to come unglued.

So now I'd like to add to that...by giving awards to ALL operating systems. C'mon people! Join in! It'll be fun. Yes, you can give awards to software taht is already 'award' winning. Just like they gave Ben-Hur 11 awards. Or, more apropriately, Titanic got like 7 awards. And it suxored. Oh, you get the idea.

You must be as sarcastic as you can be. No sucking up to the creators of the OSes. This is your chance to RANT RANT RANT. Oh, and please:

DON'T POST SAYING THAT YOUR FAV. OS IS ACTUALLY GOOD. WE AREN'T SAYING GOOD THINGS ABOUT OSES HERE!

I'll start (oh wait, I already have. Oh well)

MSDOS ver 1 - The Best-Operating-System-Microsoft-Never-Made award. No, they didn't make it. Get over it.

BeOS - The Best-OS-No-one-has-ever-heard-of award. It's the best OS, you aren't using. Why don't you use it? Could it be that it doesn't work with your video card, processor, boot loader, and floppy drive? Or could it be that you've never heard of it in the first place? I hate to dis this OS, but hey, honestly? Who DOES still use it? (don't answer that)

Mac System...uhh, insert number here - Ooooooo...a double award. This gem wins 2 awards in my book.

1) The Most-Original-Name-Ever award. Yes, the people who gave you names like Apple, Lisa, MacIntosh, and the ever original 'Puzzle', comes the most original name ever. System 7/6/5/4/whatever. Yes, it rocks. Umm, forget I ever said that. Please?

2) The Crashes-More-Than-Windows's-Apocolyptic-Crash-Level award. If you hate Windows, then you WON'T love Macs. The computer that crashes more than that IBM you just shot with that 12-gauge. Hey, at least it doesn't give blue screens!

Lindows - The It's-Linux-for-the-Wal-Mart-shopper-who-doesn't-even-know-what-the-heck-Windows-is award. 'Nuff said.



Okay, it's your turns!

[Blueliner]

Well, I think Windows 98 Second Edition is the best working Windows I've used.

Windows ME - the "Not more than a patch" award

Windows 2000 - the "heck no you ain't playing that game on this OS" award. I spent too much of my life trying to get games to run right on that beast.

DOS ver 6: "Best for playing Doom II on because Doom95 midi sounds sucked" award. Gotta love the dos midi!

[EndobioticChaos]

Windows ME: The Where-do-you-want-to-crash-today? award. This needs no explanation.

Windows XP: The Everything-you-didn't-want-and-then-some award. Product activation, integrated DRM, bloatware, a disgusting dumbed-down GUI, including even cute little Rover from (what in the heck?!) MS Bob.

[troyt75]

Windows XP - "what bluescreen do you want today" award

[nukes]

wtf?
Linux: the-most-stable-and-yet-usable-desktop-os-award
You can use this on your desktop, and have a pile of applications work with it, you can even run some windows software on it (you can with BSD as well, but not as good) it is versatile as hell and it all runs from text-based config files that a child can understand.
BSD: the-most-stable-free-os-award
speaks for itself - direct decendant of UNIX
CP/M the-most-useless-user-interface
It wasn't even an OS for hells sake, it was just the command line system and ran on top of your micro's ROM chips (much like early versionis of DOS ran on top of MS BASIC roms installed in the machines)
RISC-OS: the-earliest-and-fastest-32bit-user-interface
rom based. Never really crashed. If anything serious went wrong you just hold down R when you reset the machine and everything is honky-dory. Too bad the market didn't go that way, but they had a hard time after arthur and there was way too much stuff left from the BBC and Electron to make a real go of it.

[Redwolf]

Oh yeah, I remember an award or two I'd like to give out:

DR-DOS - The Best-Immitation-of-a-Quote-Unquote-Liberated-Operating-System award. And it still kicked M$'s butt, until Windows 95 came out.

-okay, I broke my own rule there. But if you'veever used GEM with DRDOS before, you know the ranting goes without question.-

OS/2 - The Orphaned-Kid-that-No-One-Wants award. M$ killed it, IBM ditched it for Linux. What's next? SCO sues IBM saying it was thier idea first?

Windows XP - The 'Fisher-Price award for the most plastic looking GUI. It beat KDE's Kremick theme too. How nice? The judges say it was a mixture of the teletubbies default background and horrendous color scheme.

-breaking news-

*Gasp*

Could this be? Yes it is. The big 3... my friends.

[nukes]

Actually, MS didn't kill OS/2. The marketing was done badly, and MS had written large portions of the code - do you not see the similarities between OS/2 and NT? I mean NT 3.51 was nearly identical to OS2.
It lives on, much like NSCA Mosaic, and CP/M (well, not anymore )

[Redwolf]

When M$ pulled the plug to make Windows, they basically killed it. I'm not saying it was a blockbuster OS to begin with.

[novadragoon]

Windows XP - you saw no BSOD award- ahhh reboot on critcal error, good times

[blubomber]

Windows XP- The install-it-and-go-OS. One thing i have liked about XP is the Huge driver database it has and its ability to detect most devices and set them up correctly.

Windows XP(again)- The easy-to-use-and-stable-OS-so-that-your-wife-does-not-bug-you-every-five-minutes-because-she-has-caused-a-BSOD-or-cant-find-something. I have noticed my wife bugs me less now that we are using XP.

Linux Mandrake 9. The wow-it-detected-most-of-my-hardware-and-is-getting-close-to-windows-ease-of-use. Like mandrake but i still had a tough time installing my ATI video card. And the OS is still not user friendly enough for it to be the only OS in my house.

Linux Mandrake 9. The how-many-office-apps-and-web-browsers-can-you-fit-into-one-OS. Why do i need so many word editors? Why do i need so many spread sheet apps? Why do i need so many web browsers?

Windows 2000 Pro (at work). The be-nice-to-me-or-i-will-require-a-100-alphanumeric-password-with-a-45-password-history-and-then-require-you-to-look-at-my-kids-picture-as-your-wallpaper-while-at-work. I really like 2000 in the work environment. Good way to keep users inline.