What OSes do you use?

[WD_ToRMeNt]

I use XP, linux, and 2k at home. At work I use 2k.

[Darth Simpson]

Win 98 right now, but I'll be switching to XP any day.

[CaptainRAVE]

I use windows 98 as it is best for all the new games, but also all of the old games

[gamebooger]

I used to have ME than I got rid of that crap and went for Win98SE.

[Justus]

Using XP at the moment, no complaints and no problems so far.

[JPMaximilian]

I use XP, it fixed a crash prone system. 2k was suppost to be stable, but it took XP for my computer to stay online for more than 10 minutes. 2k is good though, it just didn't jive with my setup I guess.

[CaptainRAVE]

BTW.....its win98SE that I use. One question though.....why did they bring out a second edition of it?? What was wrong with the first??

[matt--]

I believe it was mostly security and performance updates.

[CaptainRAVE]

What would you say the best all round operating system is??

[OnlyOneCanoli]

I'd probably say XP, Rave.

 

I use XP on my gaming rig, and I put 2k on my family's computer.

[TheJackal]

XP is made for anything. gaming, programming. Sure MAC are better for profesionnals out there, but to everybody else it's the PC.

 

XP is great, stable, pretty fast, a different design than all those other Windows 9x.

 

BTW, CaptainRave: XP is very good for old and new games. For older version you can set the OS to run it as Win95 or 98 if you want. compability with different windows versions. Pretty usefull.

[Wilhuf]

Jackal how big is the XP installation? Win98 SE is roughly ~250 mb give or take.

[StormHammer]

I just use Win98SE at the moment. It's stable enough, and does all I want it to (at the moment). Isn't Win XP more resource hungry?

 

Anyway, if I ever get around to whacking some more hard drives in my case, I'll probably give Linux and BeOS a whirl. I've got no current plans to upgrade to XP.

[txa1265]

Given my choice, I'd do life on my Mac OS X system ... but that isn't how life works

 

I like Win2k quite a bit - unfortunately I've not been able to upgrade to WinXP yet (though I have the discs) due to something in our networking (glad I asked!).

 

I also like NeXTStep quite a very bit, but have abandoned it as I now have everything that I needed to run there running on OS X. That was the best side-by-side comparison I had with a PC, and the NeXT box wiped the Win2k box for stability and performance on similar hardware.

 

Mike

[Obi Kwan]

XP is pretty demanding on RAM; Im not sure about other resources. As for how much space it takes up, I know that W2k takes up somwhere just over a gig, so I wouldnt be surprised if xp is somewhere around 2 gigs

[Rogue Nine]

I just recently upgraded to XP from 2K here at school and it's pretty sweet. No problems encountered yet. And all the eye candy is a nice bonus.

 

I will never, ever trust 98 again. Ickiness supreme. But that's just me.

[acdcfanbill]

actually from what i understand, windows ususally leaves RAM for programs, and utilizes a swap file on the hard drive... if it didnt, nearly everyone would need 512 meg of RAM or higher to run XP and say, MoH:AA at the same time...

[Hal_Horn]

Mac OS X on 2 machines currently. I guess when my gaming machine gets here I will have to add WIN XP or 2K to that.

[GonkH8er]

this machine -XP

 

my other machine -XP, 98 and linux

 

the other one- 2kpro

[Chanke4252]

Windows XP is by far better than any of the previous versions. I used it at my old job a bit and it networks very easily. Its as fast as windows 98, and hasnt crashed yet in the 2 months ive been using it. I had one crashlike bug with Dark Ages of Camelot, but that was due to my GeForce3 Ti200 needing the newer drivers, and it didnt really crash, it just restarted. I have yet to see it freeze or have problems dealing with a faulty program. It will shut them down without a problem if it needs to, unlike previous versions of windows and their attempts to dealing with them leading to a frozen OS.

 

I recomend XP to anyone who can 1.) afford it and 2.) run it on their system.

[Broode]

After trying win2k on my system, I am definately NOT going to change my OS unless something as revolutionary as win95 comes out. 98SE is stable, is not a recource hog, runs most dos games fine, and runs all recent games fine. If it aint broke, why fix it? So the start button is green? Pfft

[WD_ToRMeNt]

98 "SE" was more or less a huge bugfix for things in 98 1st E that should have been fixid before release in the first place. Course, they still made lots of money selling "upgrades."

 

I use XP on my gaming box. Framerates are good and stability is much better then the 9x branch. It is certainly not perfect, it's crashed and done some wierd things from time to time.

 

No M$ OS on my network has ever been able to match the 3+ months of uptime I got from one of my boxes running Mandrake Linux 8.1. I could have had it up longer but I wanted to swap out some parts.

[GonkH8er]

Originally posted by Broode

After trying win2k on my system, I am definately NOT going to change my OS unless something as revolutionary as win95 comes out. 98SE is stable, is not a recource hog, runs most dos games fine, and runs all recent games fine. If it aint broke, why fix it? So the start button is green? Pfft

 

Whats revolutionary about it is that you can play old games on it that you cant on 2kpro, which is WHY i changed.

 

 

The only thing that finally convinced me to chance was that I went and bought a copy of Interstate 76 for about $5, and it wouldnt run on 2kpro. So I thought "dammit, I wanna play this", so i installed xp

 

It's a LOT faster and just as stable as 2kpro