My OS is better than YOUR OS

PeterT · 07-21-2025, 06:43 PM

I'm getting sick and tired of all the times discussions in the calibre forum veer off to Linux is better than Windows, or similar, so please... use this thread for those discussions.

BetterRed · 07-21-2025, 06:49 PM

Better yet - take them elsewhere ==>> Top 10 Operating System Forums

DNSB · 07-21-2025, 08:33 PM

CP/M and OS/2 were the best non-Unix OSes I used.

nana77 · 07-22-2025, 02:06 AM

To me, the cleanest OS is https://www.parabola.nu/

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DNSB · 08-28-2025, 08:22 PM

I'm going to vote for Photon OS. For me, it's one of the best solutions for running containers.

PeterT · 08-28-2025, 10:13 PM

I still have fond memories of RT-11 on the LSI-11/03 in university; twin 8" floppy drives.

The fun we had trying to shoehorn the DEC Fortran compiler, Linker and all the source files for Collosal Cave (or was it Adventure) onto two floppies. It was tight.

Plus we'd had to TYPE all the source code in; the DEC service guy wouldn't give us a machine readable version, just a printout!

cromag · 08-28-2025, 10:43 PM

I have very fond memories of AmigaDOS and would loved to have seen what it might have become over time if the company hadn't been run into the ground. I liked CP/M, but I really loved using UNIX System V Release 2.

Today, I prefer Linux although I am still running one Windows computer (until October).

DNSB · 08-29-2025, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by cromag

I have very fond memories of AmigaDOS and would loved to have seen what it might have become over time if the company hadn't been run into the ground. I liked CP/M, but I really loved using UNIX System V Release 2.

I remember using an Amiga. That chipset was so far ahead of it's competition. Sadly, Guru Meditation errors were rather common and caused wear on the left mouse button.

cromag · 08-29-2025, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

I remember using an Amiga. That chipset was so far ahead of it's competition. Sadly, Guru Meditation errors were rather common and caused wear on the left mouse button.

Back in the day several cable TV channels -- in my area, at least -- used Amigas. I figured that out while flipping through the channels and hitting a Guru meditation.

nana77 · 08-29-2025, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

I'm going to vote for Proton OS. For me, it's one of the best solutions for running containers.

Proton isn't an Operating System, imho; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)
Anyway, it's great... several things comes from Wine, but having also centered the jobs on that manner, imho helped someone else that won't be liking feeling tricking in WineHQ.
https://www.protondb.com/

DNSB · 08-29-2025, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by nana77

Proton isn't an Operating System, imho; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)
Anyway, it's great... several things comes from Wine, but having also centered the jobs on that manner, imho helped someone else that won't be liking feeling tricking in WineHQ.
https://www.protondb.com/

Typo on my part. It is Photon OS.

BetterRed · 08-29-2025, 04:37 PM

For containers, Panamax is best.

DNSB · 08-29-2025, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by BetterRed

For containers, Panamax is best.

With that opinion and a toonie, I can get a coffee at Starbucks. Though I am wondering if you are running it on MacOS or Linux? I tried the Windows install with Cygwin and it crashed. Though that might be because I did not have a Windows 7.1+ install. I didn't feel up to installing Fedora's CoreOS in a VM, since I already have too many Linux VMs though that would have saved me the VirtualBox install, to try installing Panamax that way.

Quoth · 08-30-2025, 04:26 AM

They are all poor, some are really poor and some (most?) are getting worse.

Sarmat89 · 08-30-2025, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

[Amiga] chipset was so far ahead of it's competition.

Nope, it was pretty terrible. The best it could do was a CGA resolution, albeit with 32 colors. Only in 1991 they managed to update it to be able to do 640x480 resolution, albeit with 4 colors instead of VGA's 16. The problem was no one wanted the VGA resolution in 1991, as people with big monitors could have 1024x768, even non-interlaced, and people with normal ones could enjoy 256 colors instead of 4. Also, to save some money, they decide to forego the froppy controller and could not update their chipset to be able to use the standard 1.44 floppy disks.
On software front, there was nothing to write home about. They bought a prototype microkernel OS from somewhere in the UK and never were able to change it significantly. It lacked a memory manager (and memory protection of any kind, being ran on 68k CPU), so if a program crashed, it had to be 'mummified', taking the ressources until the computer was rebooted.
Also, they could never do a keyboard for their computers.

07-21-2025, 06:43 PM	#1
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,589 Karma: 79436940 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	My OS is better than YOUR OS I'm getting sick and tired of all the times discussions in the calibre forum veer off to Linux is better than Windows, or similar, so please... use this thread for those discussions.

07-22-2025, 02:06 AM	#4
nana77 Fanatic Posts: 550 Karma: 860470 Join Date: May 2025 Device: Kobo Forma	To me, the cleanest OS is https://www.parabola.nu/ [Over-large images deleted.] Attached Thumbnails Last edited by pdurrant; 07-22-2025 at 04:39 AM.

08-28-2025, 08:22 PM	#5
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,308 Karma: 171295426 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I'm going to vote for Photon OS. For me, it's one of the best solutions for running containers. Last edited by DNSB; 08-29-2025 at 04:09 PM.

07-21-2025, 06:49 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,872 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Better yet - take them elsewhere ==>> Top 10 Operating System Forums

07-21-2025, 08:33 PM	#3
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,308 Karma: 171295426 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	CP/M and OS/2 were the best non-Unix OSes I used.

08-28-2025, 10:13 PM	#6
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,589 Karma: 79436940 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	I still have fond memories of RT-11 on the LSI-11/03 in university; twin 8" floppy drives. The fun we had trying to shoehorn the DEC Fortran compiler, Linker and all the source files for Collosal Cave (or was it Adventure) onto two floppies. It was tight. Plus we'd had to TYPE all the source code in; the DEC service guy wouldn't give us a machine readable version, just a printout!

08-28-2025, 10:43 PM	#7
cromag Surfin the alpha waves ~~ Posts: 26,546 Karma: 459765791 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: New Jersey Device: Jetbook Lite & Mini, Nook STR, Kobo, Hanvon N516, Kindle 2, Androids	I have very fond memories of AmigaDOS and would loved to have seen what it might have become over time if the company hadn't been run into the ground. I liked CP/M, but I really loved using UNIX System V Release 2. Today, I prefer Linux although I am still running one Windows computer (until October).

08-29-2025, 04:37 PM	#12
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,872 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	For containers, Panamax is best.

08-30-2025, 04:26 AM	#14
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,505 Karma: 108666825 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	They are all poor, some are really poor and some (most?) are getting worse.

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