The Ultimate OS- WinMin?

[Ruahrc]

I had this idea... I think it would work too...

Make a Windows Minimalist Edition. It does away with all the "User Friendly" stuff like SystemRestore, various warnings, user-friendly features for the computer illiterate, etc. and just leave a core windows.

Personally, even though it gets a lot of **** (Windoze, etc.) I think Windows is a pretty good OS. It's relatively stable, (for me) is pretty fast and clean, and is pretty efficient. (efficient UI) But with release of WinME (of which I did not get) I saw a trend towards the more "user friendly but a little slower" type of OS. If you look at Compaqs they aren't liked very much by power users because they add all this "User" stuff. Us power people like things small, clean, and fast.

WinMin would be much faster because it wouldn't have all the extra stuff running, and it would be a lot smaller on the HDD.

If this ever came out, I would buy it... who else would?

Is this a decent idea or do I need more sleep http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif.

Ruahrc

[This message has been edited by Ruahrc (edited 12-18-2000).]

[Dave_H]

Like this?
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Dave

[CMonster]

I thought that WindowsCE might almost be what you are talking about.

The trouble with any OS is that things get bloated when you start trying to build in all kinds of hardware support, plug & play, multimedia, networking, and security features,etc.

You can actually do a pretty good job trimming Windows down just using the Setup tab in Add/Remove programs - but then what are you willing to do without?

If you would like to try a Windows "like" OS that is based on a micro-kernel and is lightening fast, I suggest that you give BeOS a try. Just don't expect all your hardware to be supported in BeOS.

[sowadsurpoint]

Just my opinion.
I use Win Me in a modified version and it works much better than 98 ever did. I removed everything but the OS itself and this works very well.The only feature that I was leary on removing was System Restore but isn't that what backups are for. Also I do miss Dos.I think MS should offer different sections of this OS as optional installations the way they used to in previous systems.