The Top 10 Worst Operating Systems of All Time

We recently looked at the Top 10 Best Operating Systems ever made, now it's time to look at the ones that we never want to use again. The Top 10 WORST Operating Systems of all time. Thanks to everyone who voted on the polls.

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[danwood_uk]

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[rom]

I had to re-install Win98 so often, I still have the serial number memorized.

[AnonymousFreakYT]

My (least) favorite thing about Windows 8 and the "Metro UI" was that Microsoft _forced it upon server users in Windows Server 2012_ (the server version of Windows 8.)

Doing server remote management over VNC, over a slow internet connection, was *PAINFUL* in Server 2012. "Crap, I don't have a desktop shortcut for that, prepare for slow full screen redraw!"

[mikeef]

Vista was the reason I switched to Mac in 2008! Windows outlook stopped working and my entire adobe Creative Suite stopped working, I tried over and over again to reinstall them, but to no avail. I decided to try Mac, an OS I openly trashed at the time. To my surprise it was lightning fast, ran all the programs I needed and still use.

[christopherjamesboudoir]

My main gripe with Vista was that it was so massive you needed at least a gig of ram to run it. That's a tall order at the time for a broke college student. Lol. The laptop my dad got me came with Vista and 512mb ram. It was so slow, and crashed so much. I had a buddy put XP on it and never had another issue. When i got 7 with a new desktop i loved it. I realized it was Vista, but a more streamlined version and thought "if this is what i got years ago this would've been great!"

[sojourner]

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[bleebu]

I remember on of the selling points of Vista was the widgets you could run on the side. Then one day, the widgets were a huge security problem, then they said, we aren't going to fix it, it was just removed in security update.

[RebuttalRecords]

I was fortunate enough to hang onto XP in order to avoid Vista. However, one day I bought a new laptop and it had Windows 7 pre-installed on it. The first thing that struck me as being positive about Windows 7 was the Aero-peek design of the UI and the beautiful gradients. The first (and probably only) thing that frustrated me was how "Program Files" had been split up to keep x86 and x64 binaries separate, as well as their respective "Program Data" folders. This changed the way my own software was compiled and deployed, but I got used to it. I still use Windows 7 for my personal dev box, and it's still as reliable as ever. IMHO Windows 7 is still the best version of Windows Microsoft has ever released. Windows 10 was a whole different story. When Windows 10 won't boot anymore, it WON'T BOOT ANYMORE, and good luck repairing the MBR and system partitions to get it back to where it should be. Also, the Windows 10 UI strikes me as being lifeless and bland, with Microsoft doing away with most gradient effects and replacing them with ugly, flat, two-dimensional tiles and lifeless fonts. My final question is WHY is Windows 10 so bloated and resource intensive? Linux running a graphical UI requires a small percentage of the disc space required to run Windows 10.

[roadrash]

Back when I worked for a company that made dev tools for Microsoft OSes, some of the older crusty devs explained it to me this way: NT was the A team. 9x was the, "mmm, yeah, don't want that guy on my team - he'll bung it up" team.

[dryan]

I'm old. I remember when DR-DOS was a thing.

[brianwood]

Don't forget the combo of CE, ME and NT, called Windows CEMENT.

[SwervingLemon]

Windows 7 was a breath of fresh air. It felt like an apology for every OS that came before it. I miss it dearly, and curse it's loss every time I uninstall TEAMS AGAIN?! WHY?!

[HandsomeLongshanks]

My buddy got his hands on a vista beta, allegedly. And according to him, there was a beta version of Vista that was AMAZING. He never upgraded it to the full release and used it for all of high school. He swore by it all the time

[ralphebrandt]

My experience goes back to 1963 on the IBM 1620 (20k of memory and 2 meg of disk) but it allowed batching ONE job at a time. It actually worked running fortram and SPS - an early and rudimentary assembler. Ulike later computers - the 1620 and the 1401 I worked on later actually exected its instruction set, not simulated it in a RISC computer. These computers were discrete components on printed circuit boards, many of them on a frame called a gate, with wires between them. The basic 1620 had three gates about 3 x 4 feet each. When they added a disk drive they added a small gate inside - actually drilled holes in the chassis with an electric drill to mount it! Then i hit the big time in 1965 with three IBM maniframe systems for the S/360 line, TOS, DOS and OS. Tape Operating System was an IBM release that was primarily to provide a platfrom for people to start developing programs, mainly in cobol and assembler for DOS and OS that were not ready yet. DOS had a supervisor (Kernel) that could be as small as 6k, but most were 8k. We were on a 64k S/360 - 8k Supervisor, 8k online inquiry program leaving 56k for batch processing. Many of our ptograms had overlays, segments that were successively loaded. DOS/VS (limited to one address space of 16M) came out and later DOS/VSE (about 1980 with max of one address spaece of 4G) allowing virtual storage and words like paging, thrashing and Least recently used, and swap came in. A little later I moved to larger facility and hit OS, now known as Multiple Virtual Systems MVS/VS and later VSE which could have each process having 4G of address apace - about 1985. In August 1999 in another role I helped move a company from DOS/VSE - which was expiring before Y2K) to a parent company MVS/VSE.

[OldTechMemories.mp]

Shocked that not a single version of ChromeOS is on here because every version is horrible

[nichfra]

The second PC I bought with my own money was running Vista and I basically never had any problem, always felt like a great OS to me and I actually missed quite a few things when I finally upgraded to 7 especially the look. Granted I came pretty late to the party and with a 4 core processor and I think 4GB of RAM and I was using it almost exclusively for games.

[rebeccaschade]

Windows 10 still has a split personality. It's like Windows 7 with Windows 8 glued on top. The Windows 10 control panel for example, doesn't include all the settings needed, and the system resorts to the classic control panel whenever you need to change any more advanced settings. The main selling points of Windows 10 are DirectX12 and optimisations to system boot, and honestly, they don't really make up for all the downsides.

[AnonymousFreakYT]

My favorite "bad Windows" story was from when I was doing on-site computer repair. One of my clients was a lawyer. She was using an ancient Windows Me computer in early 2007. It was dog slow, and of course it was horribly out of date. The big problem was that the court reporting software she used to get transcripts from the court, was upgraded to a new version; and that version no longer supported Windows 9x. Well, she had to have access to court transcripts, so she had to upgrade. I broke this news to her, told her that while it would be _possible_ to upgrade the copy of Windows on her computer, it would be far too slow for Windows XP to run reasonably.

So she went out and bought a brand new computer - and called me back a few days later.

First problem, she had bought the absolute cheapest brand-new computer she could find. It was dog slow.

Second problem, it came with then-brand-spanking-new Windows Vista. That made the slow computer even slower. The computer *barely* met Windows Vista's minimum requirements (the minimum 512 MB RAM, whatever the slowest-currently-available processor was, probably an already-out-of-date AMD Duron, ) and came preloaded with tons of bloatware. It literally took over half an hour to go from power-on to a "usable" desktop. (Good thing I billed by the hour.) And then the hard drive would thrash for another 15-20 minutes, the system barely usable. I immediately threw in another stick of RAM from my parts box and uninstalled all the bloatware. That got it to "minimum actual usable" state.

Went to install the new version of the court reporting "This operating system is not supported." While Me was too _old_ to run it, Vista was too *new*. <facepalm.gif>

Had her return the system and buy an older-but-still-in-stock XP model. Rarely had to go back after that.

[RichardHyland]

I had Vista Ultimate on a brand new laptop at the time. My experience of Vista seems very different to many, I loved it but then I had a computer capable of running both it and Aero at the time.

[MattMcIrvin]

I remember seeing that Copland demo lumber along on a friend's computer. The multiple UI skins demonstrated there were its most visually impressive feature, and of course that never saw the light of day, but they did take the default look shown in that video and use it for the UI of Mac OS 8 and 9, the last classic Mac OS versions. So the actual Mac OS 8 looked quite a lot like Copland even though it definitely wasn't Copland (no preemptive multitasking--that didn't land in the Mac world until Mac OS X, and huge chunks of the operating system in Mac OS 8 were still running under 68k emulation on PowerPCs).