water cooler :: OS chart dealie

This is something I came up with while I was argueing about how Macs are horrible and should only be used as boat anchors. He was trying to say how me and my friend were closed minded because we dont like Mac's... even though I grew up on a Mac when I was little and I used to use my friend's at least once a week a few years back. Anyways he was trying to say it went Windows - Mac - Linux, going from worst to best. Then I drew up a chart on how I thought it worked (going from worst to best):

Mac - Windows ME - Windows 98 - DOS - Windows 95 - Windows XP - Linux

I then noticed how it's almost a steady decline of the OS's. I would have Windows 95 just under Linux if most programs still supported it. Now the lowest they'll support is Windows 98 and it's completely awful. I dunno. It's just something I noticed. It's a decline up to XP and still that isnt even that great.

1) You left out the best operating system microsoft "created": Windows2000.
2) You left out Windows NT4, which until Windows2000 was the most stable of the Windows line.
3) Have you tried OSX? Mac is now a much better OS than Windows, in my opinion.

My "worst to best" list, of the OSs I've used...
Windows ME
Menuet
Mac OS 8
DOS
Mac OS 9
Windows98
Windows95
Windows98SE
Windows NT4
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Mac OS X
Linux

So why does everyone always reckon ME was worse than 98SE, 98, or 95? On my 233 laptop and 450 desktop, both of which obviously couldn't handle XP, ME was by far better and more stable than the previous incarnations. Maybe it depends on the harware, release build, etc. But I always had much better luck with ME than 95, 98, or 98SE (never used NT4 or 2000). Or maybe it's 'cause I always completely tweak any install of windows to cut down on the crap and set it up how I like it (well, near enough) before I even contemplate starting to use it...
Like XP Pro, I spend about half a day tweaking an install, then ghosting it, before I actually DO anything with it. Quite a lot of bloat you can get rid of.

Don't know why macs never brought in a right mouse button!? I need to get more experience on macs (especially as they're by far more popular than pcs in the print / advertising industry)

Some people like ME. Most people find that it crashes WAY too much.

ME was just a very gentle lady.

You have to nugde her into doing what you want, but after you get her set up, she's great.

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