You have 10 seconds to name a better OS
Protip: you simply can't
>>53974828
>> install Gentoo
Windows 8.1 was the blunder of the century
>>53974852
>better than 7 in every single way
>not cucked like 10
explain
>>53974828
OS X El Capitan
>>53974882
>full screen only apps instead of the old win7 apps
>start menu is full screen
>having to deal with a tablet/desktop hybrid DE
>annoying hot corners
windows 7
>>53974980
>classic shell
>disable hot corners
Anything else?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10
>>53974980
Hot corners can be disabled
Start menu can be replaced with startisback
full screen apps can be windowed with ModernMix
>>53975019
>it just werks guys
>>53974980
Do people actually use windows default applications? I know I don't and there's a better third party equivalent of everything MS has, so I find surprising.
>>53975042
No, Windows never just werks. However I don't torture myself with the poor design of Windows 10, I actually took the initiative to fix minor mistakes in Windows 8 to make it the very best OS
>>53975019
>You just have to [...] and it's perfect
Windows cucks are the best. They make fun of "lunix timesinks" all the while spending 10x the amount of time just making their Pajeetware™ usable.
>>53975075
it should honestly be a sin to be black
I'm serious, you people piss me off so fucking much
>>53974828
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
Lubuntu
Ubuntu MATE
Ubuntu GNOME
Linux Mint
Linux Mint MATE Edition
Linux Mint Xfce Edition
Linux Mint KDE Edition
Linux Mint Debian Edition
Fedora Workstation
Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop
Fedora Xfce Desktop
Fedora Cinnamon Desktop
Fedora LXDE Desktop
Fedora MATE-Compiz Desktop
openSUSE
openSUSE Tumbleweed
Debian Stable
Debian Unstable
Debian Testing
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
elementary OS
Manjaro Linux
Antergos Linux
Trisquel GNU/Linux
*BSD
>>53974828
Literally anything other than this.
Linux / Mac anything
>>53974828
templeOS
>>53975082
So you use default Linux distro setups do you? I find most of the unusable.
>>53975446
No not mac
>>53975082
>installing 3 add ons
How the fuck is it a 'timesink' and what mental gymnastics are you performing to make customizability a bad thing.
I'm on Ububtu GNOME myself but this makes no sense.
>>53975264
>different DEs count as different OSs
Kill yourself
>>53974828
fwiw I agree with you.
It's not perfect and the actual themes are pretty fucking dire (better than any custom shit though).
But 8.1 + Classic Shell beats the shit out of 7 any day.
>>53975529
They are different editions of the distros. You download different ISO files to get them.
Just like Windows 8.1 Home and Windows 8.1 Pro.
>>53974882
>not cucked like 10
>Microsoft can still remotely delete files from your computer if they want
>>53974828
slackware, bsd, gentoo, tails, parted magic, and debian depending on use-case and need.
>>53975925
>>53974828
Gentoo
>>53975132
Go back to /pol/ no one gives two shits about comments that have nothing to do with technology.
Arch
>>53974828
Windows 10 because linux support
>>53976627
But your host OS is Windows 10 so what's the point?
>>53975019
you mean its improved when
its just like Windows 7
/thread
>>53975950
[citation needed]
>>53976795
except that it's much faster than 7.
8.1 runs faster on my legacy machine than the Windows XP it came with.
>>53974980
>>full screen only apps instead of the old win7 apps
It has both. Take Calculator for instance, there's the new shitty full screen 4-function calculator and then there's good old calc.exe. There's PC Settings, but there's still Control Panel.
>>start menu is full screen
>>having to deal with a tablet/desktop hybrid DE
Install Classic Shell's start menu. It's the one program needed to make 8.1 great.
>>annoying hot corners
Classic Shell has an option to disable all this. You boot to the desktop and never see anything Metro unless you bring it up by launching a Metro app, bypassing Classic Start Menu with shift, or opening the wifi network list.
>>53976795
>boots faster
>runs faster
>uses less RAM
>better task manager
>better copy progress dialogs
>USB 3 works out of the box, without shitty 3rd party drivers
>better support for SSDs
>>53974828
Windows 10
>>53974980
>start menu is full screen
>mmuhh startmenu
What are you actually use it for?
>>53979326
It's a wonderful feature on a 7" tablet, but it's sort of a jarring transition on a 27" monitor when it pops up. The tiles are of fairly minimal use and almost every time what you're after is the search feature, occasionally the all apps list. None of that needs a giant fullscreen view.
Also for some reason the search is way laggy on lower spec devices -- same deal with the Win10 start menu. Neither Win7 nor 8.1 or 10 with the Classic Shell start menu have much search lag at all, even on a Pentium 4.
>>53974828
"Memeing" - the thread
>>53974828
B O T N E T - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >
O Microsoft is part of NSA's mass surveillance program "PRISM":
T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
N
E Microsoft informs the NSA about bugs before fixing them:
T https://archive.is/OBGB1
|
| Microsoft openly offeres cloud data to support PRISM:
| https://archive.is/tW6fu
|
| Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption:
| https://archive.is/2XIvX · https://archive.is/qLRZx
|
| Windows snoops on the users' files, text input, voice input,
| location, contacts, calendar records and web browsing history,
| even after related settings are turned off:
| https://archive.is/Zny36 · https://archive.is/sz1nt
| https://archive.is/g3QdQ · https://archive.is/ko469
|
| A Traffic Analysis of Windows 10:
|
| Keypoints: Windows 10 has a keylogger and uploads all your
| keystrokes every 5 minutes. Everything you type in Edge or
| Cortana is sent to Microsoft, along with any media files it
| finds. When webcam is enabled, 35MB of data goes to Microsoft.
| Even with Cortana disabled/uninstalled, Windows 10 sends all
| microphone audio to Microsoft, when the computer is idle.
| https://archive.is/QnTTA
| https://archive.is/eZKc9
|
| Windows 10 sends desktop screenshots straight to Microsoft:
| https://d2.maxfile.ro/rwspylwbwo.webm
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDeHqiydk4A
|
| Windows 10 scans for illegal/pirated software:
| https://archive.is/vhjwm
| https://archive.is/2jehd
|
| Microsoft proudly presents surveillance statistics:
| https://archive.is/MB0Yy
|
| > Over 82 billion photos viewed.
| > Gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games.
| > 44.5 billion minutes/month spent in Microsoft Edge.
| > Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
| > Windows 10 now active on over 200 million devices.
|
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>>53982095
This is a thread about Windows 8.1, retard.
>>53982110
After Windows 10 came out, Microsoft's privacy policy changed and they pushed several spy updates to Windows 7 and 8.
http://thehackernews.com/2015/08/windows-spying-on-you.html
Good link on removing it, there is also another one that isn't mentioned there and I can't remember at the moment. Will post it here as it is different for Win 7 and Win 8.1.
Gentoo.
>>53975010
>just install all this buggy 3rd party software from some random zip file to override shell proprietary shell lockdowns and it works great!
oh windows users
>>53975019
>ModernMix
>By Stardock
Yeah, no thanks. I don't like to pay for garbage.
>>53974828
DEDIAN
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Agree with OP, still using 8.1 (no classic shell), it is flawless
>>53982240
>just install all this buggy 3rd party software from some random repo and it still doesn't work
oh linux users
There is no such thing as a best OS. It always depends on what you want to do.
Anyone have windows 8.1 equivalent of this?
>>53982325
you should warn other people about how youve never actually used linux before as many people here aren't as intelligent as i and probably cant see through your joke
>>53982341
Yes just follow the link
> https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/
>>53975061
windows has some mighty tools no other can keep up with. and since you can get almost equivalent software for free, windows offers their software for free aswell. check it out. its 2016.
>>53982341
>ccleaner, defraggler
whoever made this list must be a colossal cockgoblin
>>53974828
WIndows 7
>>53982304
>>53979207
>>53976681
>>53974828
nice try Pajeets
>>53982725
>windows has some mighty tools no other can keep up with.
Like?
>>53974828
It's be the best windows there ever was.
It did the job of Windows 7 better and isn't as bloated as WinX.
But it's still Windows.
>>53976627
>Hyperx ultra cloud mlgswag IV
disgusting
>>53974828
os x exists
>>53983147
Pajeets will shill Windows 10 for rupees, 8.1 is the resistance
>>53983676
its users
>>53974828
Windows 8.1 with Classic Shell installed.
>>53976627
he asked to name a better os, not worse.
>>53974828
WINDOWS 10 X64 ENTERPRISE
Then there's the rest of the OS that are better.
Win10 haters (including me) knows that if you want Windows and don't want Win7x64 Ultimate, Win10 x64 Enterprise is the only option that isn't 110% botnet.
>>53974828
>implying I'm not using it.
>>53984064
These people are retarded.
>>53974828
Windows 7
>>53974828
windows equinox
>>53984103
>Win10 x64 Enterprise
Win10 Enterprise LTSB, you mean, right?
>>53984241
What's the difference?
Sure, as long as it doesn't remove any features needed for games and programs.
>>53984377
LTSB does not include any metro crap, store, edge, or cortana.
>>53984471
>metro crap
It's shit
>MShit Store
It's forced shit
>Edge
It's fast shit, so let's call it Diarrhea
>Cortana.
Nagy creeper crazy girlfriend that sells you to the feds the instant she doesn't like you.
Sounds like LTSB is the proper Win10 version.
>>53974828
>windows 7
>windows xp
>literally any OS except vista or that one linux distro we dont talk about
Windows 10.
i agree, windows 8.1 is the best and last good windows. only a moron would run a horribly outdated and slow os like 7 and only a computer illiterate retarded would run 10 with all those forced updates. literally the only thing 10 got going for it is bash support, but i'd rather dualboot and keep my important files save on linux.
>>53974828
Irix 6.2
Windows 2000
>>53984607
>slow os like 7
>>>/p/anjeet/
win 8.1 enterprise with kill metro and classic shell is very usable OS.
>>53976620
Butthurt nigger lover
>>53974828
Really I can't, more advanced than 7 but the botnet updates can be removed.
>>53984632
>Laptop SLI
Why can't they do a desktop GPU without SLI issues?
>>53982852
Name a SINGLE thing 7 does better
>pro-tip: You actually can't
>hurr 8.1 looks difrent durr!!
Faggot
>>53984632
>muh fps in muh gayms
come back when 7 has proper m.2 nvme support
Gentoo
>>53974882
Your being cucked when you use ANY version of windows
>>53986535
> shadow copy
> NFS
> XDDM support
> better performance >>53984632
> less bloat (even the iso of both Enterprise x64, the 7 one is like 400MB less in size, let alone installed)
> no METRO duality (no, you can't get rid of METRO in 8.1, get over it, see the network popup and control panel which just opens the settings crap every time it wants to do so)
> no cloud and data collection nonsense (all this bullshit started with the 8.1 update)
> no mouse acceleration issues
> 7 can be easily activated forever with DZ Loader, without having additional bg services
> 7 still allows you to use the old scaling method (not only the blurry one)
>>53984053
I use Windows and I still laughed.
+1
>>53974980
yeah, because having what basically is an alternative desktop and easily navigable view of installed programs is so much worse than some clusterfuck of drop down lists that took forever to navigate
>>53974828
Behold - the future of windows.
Where we all get nostalgic about how the last clusterfuck was better than the current clusterfuck.
>>53974828
>good os.
Not even a good windows os.
Windows 10 sucks because they keep trying to integrate settings menus into the retarded looking Metro
>>53982240
All it does is add a hook to intercept clicks on the start button, and disconnect the thing listening for hot corner clicks and movements. It's not using any exploits to break out of something locked down because there is nothing locked down. It's not doing anything hackier than what stuff like xdotool does in Linux.
The biggest bug I've encountered in it is hurr there isn't much space between the left pane and the shut down button which looks a bit weird. I find the Classic Explorer module a bit quirkier and don't really like its UI changes, so I only install the start menu one.
>>53986535
>>53986556
The difference isn't in appearance and raw speed. CPU speed and FPS on most games is going to be damn near identical as >>53984632 shows -- most of the differences there are about what you'd expect to see between runs of something on the same system. It's how long it takes to load things and how much RAM it uses. You won't see any real difference on a high end system, but 8.1 wins by quite a bit on lower spec systems. Also things like having full USB 3.0 support out of the box, without buggy 3rd party drivers, native ISO mounting, and better SSD and UEFI support.
win7
>>53974828
Here's an elaborate guide to making ANY windows installation great AND free, in the word's both meanings as well:
1. Make sure to back up your important data on an external mass or cloud storage.
2. Download Gentoo.
3. Make a liveCD/USB/VHS/LaserDisc/C-casette or whichever you prefer.
4. Remove all traces of your windows installation, the easiest way to do this is to take your hard drive, pour gasoline on it, set it on fire and throw it from atop a cliff.
5. Get new hard drive, or use your old one if you just formatted it.
6. Boot to your LiveCD/USB/Thunderbolt/FireWire/VGA.
7. Install Gentoo.
8. ...
9. Congratulations, you now have a flawless windows installation.
>>53988772
...and then install Windows in a VM if you have something Wine can't handle and there isn't a reasonable FOSS alternative
>>53989141
Oh, yes, you'd better install windows in a VM if that antivirus doesn't work with WINE.
Sweet-OS
>>53989373
x^D get out
>>53974828
Windows 7 is the best OS for an actual computer. 8, 8.1, 10 are for tablets.
