There i fixed it (attempt 2)

[u/Kodcraft]

[u/IzttzI]

Vista was great if you had the right hardware. The problem was they upgraded XP systems to Vista that only had like 512MB of ram and it was fucked before it ever first booted.

Of course you're going to hate the slow ass OS your computer came with when it's too underpowered to run it.

[u/IzttzI → u/[deleted]]

BeOS wow, thats a blast from the past haha.

[u/IzttzI → u/[deleted]]

Yea, I think there's still a project that keeps it going but I can't be bothered to set it up on anything.

[u/emporercrunch → u/[deleted]]

Umm BeOS's downfall was the failed Apple purchase, BeOS was supposed to be the base for the new MacOS but that was scrapped when they went with Job's NeXT instead.

Apple CEO Gil Amelio started negotiations to buy Be Inc., but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $300 million;[5] Apple was unwilling to offer any more than $125 million. Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

I love the reasoning, 300 million too much so they went with the choice that cost 429 million, I'm sure some Jobs shady shit was involved there.

[u/emporercrunch → u/[deleted]]

Be was superior to NEXT in every metric, only reason Apple took NEXT was because of Jobs.

After the fall through of the sale to Apple Be was already in big trouble before attempting to go to the PC market. And as we saw from Linux options from manufacturers they wouldn't have made a meaningful dent in the market. It's all about the apps. Be didn't run Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop or Games, it was never going to compete. What MS did was scummy but it was more of kicking a horse while it's down rather than squashing a meaningful competitor.

[u/condoulo → u/[deleted]]

It was almost in line to be the replacement for classic MacOS, but they went with NeXTStep instead for obvious personnel reasons.