The 7 Worst Operating Systems Ever

I remember that era when windows 8 came out, and everyone was like, Nah and used windows 7 for 3 more years

ChromeOS should have been on the list. -Chromebook user

I had an after school job at a small shop fixing computers back in the early 2000s. With almost every Windows ME PC that came in, standard procedure was to salvage what we could in terms of personal data from the hard drive, then installing Windows 98.

The flaws you point out for the "Incompatible Timesharing System" applied to every single operating system back in the '60's. Things like hierarchical file systems, long file names, basic security etc didn't begin to exist until the '70's, and weren't universal for a long time after that.

"Windows ME sucks!" "Have you ever even used it?" "Of course not! Why would I use an OS that sucks?"

windows thiojoe edition nothing works but thiojoe has a fake tutorial for everything

Back in the day we used WinMe to test the hardware when we installed batches of PC's because installation was the quickest. We had to test every USB port. About 30% of the systems crashed when plugging/unplugging an USB mouse. It was THAT bad.

MSDOS 3.3 changed my life. In 1984 that's all you had for IBM personal computers. I taught myself assembler using the Debug command in MSDOS. From that I got a hold of a copy of MASM and furthered my assembler learning using the Macro Assembler. I'm sure I could have done the same using the Apple ][e Monitor program. Incidentally a couple of years later when I was in high school my math teacher let me use his Apple ][e he had in the classroom. I used the Monitor program to teach myself 6502 assembler :P. It just so happened my parents bought a PC. If they had bought an Apple or C64 I'm sure I would have found similar tools there. Oh, and 4.0 did suck.

1:15 Windows XP = Xtremely Popular

I never had any issues with ME, but I was a kid back then. Just wanted to play rollercoaster!

My mother bought a Gateway PC back in 2000. She asked me to come over and set it up for her. I got everything out of their boxes, hooked up the PC and pressed the power button. I booted to the desktop and immediately blue screened. I knew from then on it was going to suck.

I recall working at Best Buy in 1999 (at the Computer Dept.) and seeing the fiasco unfold due to the confusion by consumers walking in wanting to upgrade their OS. To 99.9% of them, the intuitive choice was to grab the box that read Windows 2000. They just had no idea it was meant as un upgrade to Windows NT. Having said that, there is one area worth giving credit to ME: The OS was FINALLY compatible with many webcams, which started coming out after Win 98 and were a pain in the arse. Newer printers and scanners were also a lot easier to install and many of them had the drivers already in the OS which finally brought the so called Plug-and-Play to reality. So for teenagers, and college students wanting to actually use these newer gadgets, ME was a far better choice than 98.

Fun fact: Window Vista was usually commonly known as Window sVista (meaning windows mistake/overlook) here in Italy because of how bad and initially highly distributed it was

WindowsME: "Mistake Edition" Windows98SE: "Windows SIKE Edition"

As a long time Mac user, Mac OS 8.5 and 8.6 where very buggy and crashed frequently. The classic os was on it last legs , so many extension patches and helper apps slowed anything down. It could not do multitasking and no protected memory. So many stuck watch icons pointers. Bit map interface

I never actually used Vista. Jumped from XP to 7, those were the best ones.

Also SpyOS must be included. Excuse me, ChromeOS

I had an ME box that lasted for years! It was buggy at first, but after a couple service packs, it worked great. I used it for a long, long time and only replaced it when it got so old that the software I needed to use wouldn't run on it.

Back in the day, I had Lindows on a bootable CD ROM. I found it very useful in recovering deleted files on an MS Windows partition.

I saw the thumbnail for this video and my heart almost stopped because I thought I saw windows XP in the trash can.