Windows ME was the first ever OS made by MS... this is one reason they had to come up with Winxp HOME edition... Win98 ruled a long time. and I still a few home users using Win 98 ( proud users of 98)
MacOS... I've never liked Macs that much. They may be great machines, but I prefer MS OSs. It could be because I'm more used to it. However, I've always found MAC very crappy. I've had to use it at school many times. Just hated it.
It's so annoying and weird, whereas, MS OSs are so user-friendly and full of features.
I don't know why everyone is dissing Mac OS. It IS something that most haven't used and moving from Win to Mac is not very intuitive. But once u have spent a few hours with it, it becomes very natural. I will admit that I'm having a few issues finding all the applications to do what i do on Windows, but then again I haven't spent as much time looking for Mac apps historically so i don't know the sources yet. But it definitely is very powerfull and oh so cute :)
But in my universities days I hated AIX (IBM's version of UNIX OS). Lets just say it wasnt the most user-friendly OS or could be that i was a unix beginner back then.
AIX was my second choice in proprietary Unix systems... right after Solaris which has been by far the most efficient and powerful OS I've experienced to date.
Windows NT 4.0 Server. The most rediculous OS ever. Here you installed IE 4.0, BSOD. SP2 installed, rebooted, BSOD. Connected with Hotswappable Compaq RAID, ran auto detection, BSOD. Installed Exchange 5.0 or instaleld on Xeon, same Sh!t. The Admins back then (some 7 years ago) would see BSOD more than the cup of coffee in a single working day. It worked well only on Alpha servers, but than application compatiblity. Man, I used to have nightmares of those memory dumps.
I must say that XP and Windows 2003 are good products by MS. Despite of its vulnerablity for cracks.
In Unix, BSDs and Irix are quiet iritating. I didn’t like HP-UX in the beginning, but having work on it for last 4 years along with classic Solaris and bugger Aix, its more of a norm now. But Irix is still pain in the neck till date.
OpenVMS was also something which I never wanted to even type a command in. But was forced to learn it for Oracle and Rdb servers. Its one heck of a stable OS and its unhackable too So less work for security admin.
I hear ya bro… I was a Systems Officer at the Ministry of Health when we made the switchover, first from OS2 (not bad for its time) to Win NT 3.2 (had a lot of fun with this one too since it was the first of its kind). A year later, when we were all pumped up about our new h/w and s/w infrastructure for the call center infrastructure, we thought we were gonna be all set with our IBM NetFinity servers and Win NT 4.0. Everyone got bloody Microsoft Certified and thought they had the ability to deal with everything that would come our way. Needless to say, the daily BSODs spoilt our beginning months and its a good thing we were running a parallel instance with our older servers too… we made quite a few back-n-forth switches - warna all of Ontario would have come to a standstill for their Health Card Applications and that wouldn’t have been good at all.
na man didnt have the menu driven interface back then, cant remember what version of AIX it was, but it ran on X-windows which was the only part that fascinated me. It was all command line and you had to know the commands It took me a while to figure out that i could read email using Pine as well and didnt have to depend on mailx. And i didnt know Pico existed, so it was either emacs or vi. It was a bitch to compile c programs. The errors and warnings were hard to debug and most of that stuff compiled flawlessly on Linux. The browser in those days was Mosaic. Yep that was a long time ago.