Would the world be a better place if Windows never existed?
>>54801343
No, Linux / OS X would just be windows instead
I don't care if she has a penis or a vagina, I'd fuck her brains out. Also, sage because offtopic.
>>54801343
no, windows has stopped multiple wars
>>54801343
No. Want to know what desktop unix was like before Windows? Install the TWM window manager and live with it for a few weeks and get back to us.
>>54801402
heaven pls
>>54801343
Why is she so malnourished?
Normies wouldn't use computers, so that's a definitive yes.
>>54801585
she's a turkroach
>>54801343
>Would the world be a better place if Windows never existed?
Yes.
>>54801585
Putin is bombing the supply lines
jobs gets gates's billions instead? definitely worse
>>54801343
Who is this waifish creature?
>>54801343
No. Systems based on Unix are as shit as well.
Yes. Unix would rule the world.
Proprietary Unix versions from PC manufacturers would be a thing
Applel would have more power
Linux wouldn't exist, a stable GNU Hurd would be the linux of today
>>54801343
no, because windows' shortcomings don't come from it being windows, it comes from PCs being PCs
people would have simply run some other GUI shell on top of DOS
>>54801688
jobs wouldn't get shit, Macs were always niche products that would never hope to compete with IBM compatibles
>>54801774
>Proprietary Unix versions from PC manufacturers would be a thing
??? there were a ton of Unixes on PCs in the '80s, Microsoft/SCO Xenix being the biggest one.
>>54801845
What I meant was that new PCs sold today would have a proprietary UNIX version preinstalled
>>54801874
no way, unless whoever took Microsoft's place on the top of the software food chain managed to get a reasonable license from AT&T and also managed to make the transition seamless as possible.
PC Unix was shitty, expensive, and incompatible with everything, and if you didn't care about compatibility, then you weren't buying something as shitty and underpowered as a PC in the first place.
>>54801343
who is she
>>54802125
a cockroach
>>54801343
I like my windows, I can see the outside world through them.
>>54802125
>she
>>54802125
Seconding
>>54802168
who is he/she/it?
>>54802125
>she
>>54801343
>>54802230
Whats her fucking problem?
>>54802230
Not really answering the queation
>>54802125
https://www.youtube.com/user/anzujaamu/videos
>>54801343
>Would the world be a better place if Windows never existed?
Wanna know what was the most popular version of Unix before Windows came out?
Microsoft Unix, aka Xenix. Later sold to the Santa Cruz Organization aka SCO (yes that SCO). It wasn't even a close race, Microsoft sold something like 90% of all Unix systems in the 80's.
Still so sure that the world would have been better without Windows?
>>54801714
>waifish
>>54802209
That is a Xe you bigot
>>54802481
A what?
>>54802283
>the queation
>>54801461
>>54801719
>>54801721
>>54801774
>>54801845
>>54801874
>>54802371
>implying the only options are Windows and Unix
>this is what /g/ actually believes
A better question is, "Would the world be a better place if Unix never existed?"
http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
Os/2 or BeOS
>>54801343
Is she a slav rape baby?
>>54802577
over multiple generations probably
>>54801402
Anzu.
Would the world be a better place if he never existed?
>>54801343
No, there would be another monopoly in any case.
But world could be a better place if only Windows had at least one real contestant. Apple could easily become a decent competitor on desktop market if they would quit being full-retarded with their efi-locked operating system. Shuttleworth was too late to the game to make any noticeable impact on Windows desktop marketshare, his obongu became more or less usable only with version 10.04, which was 10 years behind XP.
>>54801343
Depends on how you look at it.
Windows essentially made computers easy to use for stupid people, so in that aspect, yes.
>>54802554
>A better question is, "Would the world be a better place if Unix never existed?"
And what if Hitler didn't invade Poland?
And what if you grandpa were a girl?
>>54801343
The same shit would've happened with Linux and osx instead
>>54802554
What, you think AmigaDOS or MacOS were gonna take over the world? Did you ever try actually writing software for those excretions? OS/2? Windows NT *is* OS/2. Maybe you thought DEC was gonna port VMS to PC's someday?
Real world, if Windows hadn't happened then Microsoft Unix would be it.
>>54801343
the world would be a better place if hitler won the war and started his own startup
>>54801343
I'm having a hard time telling if that's a guy or a girl. Would be there foot slave either way
>>54803021
its a turkroach
>>54801343
>slav rape turkroach babies
>>54802837
as I already autismalized to another poster, Unix would *not* be it, if Microsoft never got off the ground past BASIC ports then it would have been CP/M or some other DOS-like system, Unix was too bloated and expensive for personal/home computers to be a serious competitor, and it ran no software.
>>54801343
The world would be a better place if computers never existed at all because people would go outside or get real jobs instead of being a useless piece of shit staying in a cubicle all day with a false sense of importance where without it you are nothing.
>>54803982
>implying they wouldn't sit in a cubicle all day filing paperwork instead of working with computers
The world would simply be better without capitalism and bureaucracy
>>54801594
this & vouch
>>54804436
>without capitalism and bureaucracy
Feeling the Bern?
>>54804552
>implying bernie isn't capitalist and wouldn't bring more bureaucracy
Nah, feeling Bakunin
>>54804570
You are correct. Bernie is no different. I don't do the Left-Right tango.
>>54804770
The american "democracy" doesn't give you real choice. It's not a tango it's an illusion. Modern western leftism is an insult to the real left, to the people who've fought for freedom before WW2 and the Cold War and before identity politics took it over either by conspiracy or simply by stupidity.
>>54801343
Sunlight is important to our bodies and health. The burning of candles or oil lamps caused health problems as well as being expensive.
We need sunlight and we need to be able to see outside our homes.
>>54804823
>before identity politics took it over either by conspiracy or simply by stupidity
It's not really a conspiracy or stupidity, it's just plain shilling and PR.
Political parties try to pander to as many idiots as they can by englobing different ideals which were never part of leftism to get as many votes as possible and this provoked the appearance of reverse moralists.
Many of those reverse moralists are also trying to make a quick buck off of other brainwashed idiots just like religious zealots do and the media obviously wants make a few buck off of it too.
Many of these moralists don't give a flying fuck about what they promote and are just in it for the money like Sarkeesian and all those bootleg "feminists" that actual feminists who fought for real rights decades ago actually despise.
>>54802554
>http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
>written entirely by jews
good goyim, don't make free and open source software
Commadore would probably still be around and Sony would be making shitty overpriced Amiga clones.
Unix probably would have caught on and Linux wouldn't exist.
I'd prefer an IBM dominated world instead of Microsoft tbqh.
lol she looks like a heroin addict.
>>54806043
dumb tripfag
>>54801343
Might have been that Amiga and Atari ST PCs would have survived. Maybe even some of the others that swung across to "IBM-Compatible" offerings would have done better without Microsoft garnisheeing their profits.
Certainly, there would have been much more variety and choice.
Nobody seems to remember how varied the PC scene was before Windows.
>>54801343
No Deep Horizon, and possibly countless other mishaps occurred due to Windows, instability and its builtin swisscheese-security.
>>54808222
this.
There have been so many possibilities.
Is there one to fit in microsofts place?
1. OS
a) GEOS was available on many systems and good.
b) GEM - Great GUI of AtariST (TOS) and also on PC, created by DR
c) Business? OS2. But would it exist without MS?
2. Office
a) Lotus Symphony - had good market share, full office package, runs on business OS OS/2
b) Signum! the best word processor ever.
c) Wordperfect Great word processor by Novell (later Corel)
d) GEOS had a complete office built in.
3. Office Networking
a) Novell Netware
Nothing else to say.
>>54801343
Apple would have everyone wrapped around its dick
>>54809071
hahaha... - no.
It would be highly likely that unix systems would become the norm or apple would take over before that.
Sooner or later the consumer boom in that sector would happen so you'd have highly casualized version of whatever system took the lead.
Worst case scenario is that the whole field would get fragmented and there would be 3-10 competing systems but that is counterintuitive since the market would eventually decide what to main.
my guess that apple's gui would win over people fast and it would remain in the lead with unix variants being used by professionals.
>>54801343
Windows innovated a lot, and stopped a lot.
We don't need Windows anymore.
>>54808889
>GEM - Great GUI of AtariST (TOS) and also on PC, created by DR
I picked up a 1040STF a couple weeks ago and that shit is anything but great, it looks like utter eye rape, at least compared to the Macintoshes it competed with.
>>54809513
>It would be highly likely that unix systems would become the norm
Why do people keep saying this?
Unix was bloated shit for home computers.
>>54809513
I don't think so. Unix on PC was never a thing and many concurrent DOS based GUI's where available. (remember that MS didn't create DOS)
maybe GEOS would have had some good chances because it was widely spread on C64, C128, Apple II and so on. And the PC Version was way better than Windows.
Or maybe Digital Research GEM with DR DOS.
No it would actually be worse. Linux was made as an alternative to windows, if windows doesn't exist then that would've left us with unix systems like os x and bsd. Whether you like bsd or linux more, that's up to you.
>>54801343
>Microsoft isn't around to cajole OEMs into bundling Windows with their systems; the PC compatible GUI space remains a disjointed mess of proprietary OEM-specific shells and Macintosh System clones like GEM all with their own specific software bases for a longer time or even indefinitely unless a big enough company or consortium can successfully push a unified standard the same way CDE was pushed on Unix in the '90s
>Windows NT is never created and OS/2, if the project is ever even started, will fail all the same because IBM is terrible at marketing; MS-DOS will stick around for a longer time, maybe even indefinitely, with Microsoft eventually adapting it for multi-user/multitasking use cases as computers become more powerful
>Without GNU/Linux, BSD remains the poster child of free software alternatives to DOS and Unix
>The shortcomings of DOS maintain the relevance of Unix and Mac OS in the high-end and likely mean the computing ecosystem remains a disjointed mess for a longer period of time
Probably not.
>>54809621
>Linux was made as an alternative to windows
Absolutely no. The invention of Linux had nothing to do with Windows. Linus created a terminal emulation which evolved to an OS-kernel. He didn't even think of a full featured GUI driven OS.
>>54809569
It was simple but very nice to use.
>>54801343
This sort of novel, yet untended hair along with the fatigued if not sickly outright appearance, is highly attractive.
Image is probably male, but nonetheless. Those are ideal traits that I'm surprised the appeal of isn't more than evolutionarily underexpressed.
>>54801343
Hard to evaluate. Windows has had a massive role in the development of modern computing. Too many unknowns to determine whether it nets out as positive, negative, or neither. It is certain to be dualistic.
For the last 8 years or so I've grown to dislike Microsoft more and more on a basis beyond them being corporate money grubbing shitheads. There's Windows based software that can't feasibly be replaced, and when AMD's Zen comes around I'll be forced out of using Windows 7. I'll dual boot Windows 10 with Gentoo, but I'd more like to quarantine it.
Good thing I saw this coming a decade+ ago. No surprises or philosophical upsets, just disappointment and irritation.
>>54801343
windows regressed human history
anything innovative or good, microsoft extinguished -- for over 30 years
>>54810144
it provided what exactly
a GUI -- and a filing system that is now 20 years out of date -- they provided nothing over and above apple, with far lower standards.
they can't even compete with their own products, now -- and they are out of mobile
where they have to compete, whaddyaknow , THEY CAN'T COMPETE.
microsoft, a dismal history of technological failure / rescue
>>54810144
their platform is still a mess
what you end up with a 100% monopoly (the PC)
remember PCs? microsoft is AOL
>>54810464
>>54810492
You've taken "massive role" to mean "necessary and positive influence", but that's not how I meant it. I mean literally, they've had a massive role. It's not a value statement, it just is. And you can't tell how it would be if Microsoft never existed.
>>54810542
you can make a list of products that would have gone somewhere and not been extinguished by their licensing monopoly
>tfw no Anzu gf
if windows never existed tons of bugs would get into ur house and fly around all spastic. i fucking love my windows
>>54810777
Yet you cannot say deterministically what they would have become and their effect on the greater whole. IBM has crippled progress with their patent licensing monopoly as well.
Again, I'm not defending Microsoft. I'm just saying.
>>54810777
Can you list a few on your mind? Because I bet most of them would have been extinguished no matter whose name was on the most shelf talkers.
Ditch the victim complex, it's stupid. Microshit didn't dominate because they were Microshit, they dominated because they were in the right place at the right time.
>>54810784
that doge look deeby gonzerned
>>54811287
>>54811287
>>54810784
I'd kick the ass of that doge's owner
You don't bury a docile doge in sand just to shoot le funny photo to publish on facebotnet
Self-referential social media onanism is the cancer of our times
>>54801343
>Would the world be a better place if Windows never existed?
NO
no
NO
>>54801343
Nope, something else would have just taken it's place, most probably OS/2. Else it would be the same.
>>54812205
>Being beta and defending a dog
>>54812410
>look at me I'm so alpha when I'm torturing an animal
I bet you're the bully in your kindergarten
No. For all the shit they've pulled over the years, the sole reason why computers are common home appliances is Microsoft and Bill Gates in particular. If it wasn't for their aggressive push into households, personal computers would still be expensive office appliances, or dumb terminals connected to a mainframe.
>>54801402
if it has a penis is a he and if it has pussy a she.
Not hard to remember and please do not take to heart every single faggot posting here about sucking each others dicks.
>>54801343
I don't think so, most probably OS/2 would just take it's place and now IBM would be pulling malware moves to install OS/10 on your Amiga 20000 and you would be whinning about how cool OS/7 was.
>>54801343
Yes, OS/2 was way better.
>>54802544
damn this bitch goin REAL BALT
hoo hoo sorry babe
>>54812879
Dude, x86 would still be a thing with or without Windows, Amiga has nothing to do with it.
>>54810075
Anzu is female.
>>54812879
>>54813223
Eliminating Windows wouldn't make IBM's marketing prowess any less shitty.
Hell, whatever you'd have to do to the past to make Windows never happen would likely result in OS/2 never even being designed in the first place.
>>54813242
>female
>>54813424
Dude, OS/2 vs Windows was a contract thing, not marketing in the long run.
>>54813424
Also OS/2 is way older then Windows, Windows was build on OS/2 source.
you know, she would be a lot more cute if she worked on her iman
>>54801458
>windows has stopped multiple wars
I call bullshit.
>>54813450
I don't understand, nor really how that would make much of a difference. OS/2 failed for reasons other than Windows getting more business from big OEMs, the initial 1.x releases were gimped because of IBM's obligations to 286 customers and OS/2 in general was very poorly marketed in comparison, it also had a pretty big scarcity of native applications, and if you were just going to run DOS applications on it, why bother spending extra money on OS/2 and the hardware to run it when a cheap XT clone will do it just as well?
>>54813460
No, NT was partially built from Microsoft's contributions to OS/2, not Windows itself, 1.x was released in '85 before OS/2 was even named, and non-NT Windows had no OS/2 ancestry.
>>54801343
We would be using a Japanese OS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
The world would be a better place if GNU never existed
>POSIX shell trash dies sooner, replace with a proper high level language instead of one cobbled together from a bunch of "software tools" (moronic lazy-devs-first strategy)
>C dies off outside of the areas where it's absolutely needed because no good readily available compilers and libs
>no emacs
>world moves on from 1970s paradigms micro-optimized for PDP-10s as proprietary UNIX slowly kicks the bucket
>plan 9 still fails, sorry
>>54809621
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMm0HsmOTFI
>>54813801
No, Windows NT was literally OS/2 NT (which was intended to be OS/2 2.0). When IBM and Microsoft split, Microsoft gave IBM a perpetual sales license for Windows in exchange for the unreleased OS/2 NT code MS was developing. IBM took their OS/2 1.x sources and dressed it up and released it as OS 2/2.0, MS took their OS/2 NT code and made it look like their legacy windows UI instead of Presentation Manager.
Then Microsoft claimed that the perpetual license they gave IBM was only for the 16-bit Windows, and won in court, in what was the most royal fucking-over ever administered by Gates in his illustrious career.
Linux would still be shitty desu
>>54813461
More like she needs to put her hijab back on
>>54814399
Fuck off, paid Microsoft shill.
>all the insecure faggots in this thread
Its not the 90s any more you dumb shits, nobody cares except you.
If its pretty and it makes you smile, fuck it. JEsus.
>>54801594
>>54801647
Everyone would just use mac
Linux would still be for neckbeards
Sure better
>>54801343
>would the world be a better place without something that gave huge advances in tech a chance to happen
Yes, I would've loved 20 more years of basic running on machines made from garbage.
>>54819830
Who are you even responding to?
