If you had the chance to go back to an older OS, What would it be?

DOS 6.22

I like it a lot the amount of control of everything that was going on the OS. The default install was incredibly clean (compared to today immensely bloated "clean" installs). Installing programs was a matter of copying a directory and running a file. Drivers can be checked by looking at config.sys/autoexec.bat. Antiviruses were actually useful back then (as well as viruses were made by real men and not script kiddies). No messing with registries, hidden autorun programs, everything was really simple.
Pair it with Norton Commander 3 and file management became trivial too

Alejandro85 said:

DOS 6.22

I like it a lot the amount of control of everything that was going on the OS. The default install was incredibly clean (compared to today immensely bloated "clean" installs). Installing programs was a matter of copying a directory and running a file. Drivers can be checked by looking at config.sys/autoexec.bat. Antiviruses were actually useful back then (as well as viruses were made by real men and not script kiddies). No messing with registries, hidden autorun programs, everything was really simple.
Pair it with Norton Commander 3 and file management became trivial too

You might like dosbox.

You might also like chocolatey . Chocolatey is package manager to install software using the command line in cmd or powershell terminals. The only issue with me, it doesn't give you a chance to do a custom installs. It silent installs the program. At least on a Linux system with apt-get or similar command, you know you can download software that been trusted and approved from an official repository unless you use an unofficial repository.

groze said:

Alejandro85 said:

DOS 6.22

I like it a lot the amount of control of everything that was going on the OS. The default install was incredibly clean (compared to today immensely bloated "clean" installs). Installing programs was a matter of copying a directory and running a file. Drivers can be checked by looking at config.sys/autoexec.bat. Antiviruses were actually useful back then (as well as viruses were made by real men and not script kiddies). No messing with registries, hidden autorun programs, everything was really simple.
Pair it with Norton Commander 3 and file management became trivial too

You might like dosbox.

You might also like chocolatey . Chocolatey is package manager to install software using the command line in cmd or powershell terminals. The only issue with me, it doesn't give you a chance to do a custom installs. It silent installs the program. At least on a Linux system with apt-get or similar command, you know you can download software that been trusted and approved from an official repository unless you use an unofficial repository.

I like DosBox actually, but far from a real DOS environment. Nice option to play older games or other programs within newer OSs.

I don't like Chocolatey at all. It's actually the opposite of what i was talking about. It takes away chance of controlling what installers do (because they run fully silently), and the downloads can came from anywhere, as you can't control that really. Even worse, it doesn't gives the chance to backup the installer itself (a must for any backup plan). The only thing in common with the real DOS is the command-line interface, which is incidentally the worst part of DOS (hence my comment on NC).

jadinolf said:

I'll just stick with 7.:)

I had 7 until yesterday, when I upgraded to Windows 10 T.P.

ThrashZone said:

No need to go back win-7 is perfect out of the box :)
x-p was my first os and I do not miss it at all [emoji14]

Exactly! Windows 7 is perfect out of the box!! [emoji1]

But, why do you not miss Win Xp at all? It was great!!

Alejandro85 said:

DOS 6.22

I like it a lot the amount of control of everything that was going on the OS. The default install was incredibly clean (compared to today immensely bloated "clean" installs). Installing programs was a matter of copying a directory and running a file. Drivers can be checked by looking at config.sys/autoexec.bat. Antiviruses were actually useful back then (as well as viruses were made by real men and not script kiddies). No messing with registries, hidden autorun programs, everything was really simple.
Pair it with Norton Commander 3 and file management became trivial too [emoji14]

Great answer! I liked how much control the OS gave you. Those were real clean installs.