The 2014 Operating System Thread

[particleman]

Re: The 2014 Operating System Thread

Debian stable on wifes netbook,Debian testing on desktop,Arch on my laptop. Freebsd on firewall (pfsense) and Xbian (linux) on my raspberry pi XBMC setup.

[momaka]

Re: The 2014 Operating System Thread

http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline4.html
^ Worth a laugh.

That's actually sad. If you have a closer look, you can see how the UI has progressed through the years (or rather how it hasn't lately) . Mainly, lots of progress, competition, and innovation back in the early 80's and 90's. Then, it seems to level-off around year 2000, then diving straight into the toilet crap hole after that (with XP probably being at "the top" of innovation).

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Mainly, lots of progress, competition, and innovation back in the early 80's and 90's. Then, it seems to level-off around year 2000, then diving straight into the toilet crap hole

Makes sense! That's when a lot of consumer-grade products got outsourced to China!

[Elysarian]

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That's actually sad. If you have a closer look, you can see how the UI has progressed through the years (or rather how it hasn't lately) . Mainly, lots of progress, competition, and innovation back in the early 80's and 90's. Then, it seems to level-off around year 2000, then diving straight into the toilet crap hole after that (with XP probably being at "the top" of innovation).

Personally I consider the biggest innovation was the move from program manager to explorer - everything between win95 and win7 was just evolution...

Also, a lot of people disliked the new look that came with XP (I thought it looked childish and on machines I had to use it on switched to classic mode).

I still don't understand why we weren't given a choice with Windows 8 - how many other people hacked windows 95 to use progman.exe as the shell in place of explorer.exe? (was a simple hack of an ini file - Microsoft still has the KB article on their site that tells you how to do it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142255 )

In my view, not much has changed in 20 years on the desktop itself - the changes have been to the start menu and taskbar

[ben7]

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I like how so far, nobody uses windows vista ...

I'm using windows 7 ... probably will for a while, hopefully, since they stopped making copies of it.

[Elysarian]

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I'm "technically" using win2k but as I don't use it on a daily basis (I support around 50 non-internet connected machines that run it - we are in the process of migrating these to Linux or XP as they fail, the software doesn't work on anything later) I didn't select it.

As for Vista, that went the same way as "Me" on any system I find it on (immediate upgrade to next or previous version depending on hardware - with "Me" it was mostly 98se but I find 7 is usually a better option for vista boxes).