Wich is the best O/S

[manu323323]

I am currently running windows 98 second edition and it works almost fine.
Now i would like to now what you all think of
win 9x,ME,2000,xp ,mac,linux,etc.:shoot :shoot

[MorningSon]

linux, unix, & bsd are (despite what others say) only truly useful if you are running a server. Which i kinda doubt you are, but i could be wrong. Plus while there are alot of new software titles popping up everyday for linux (most are free) most big-name software titles cannot run on *nix systems. The biggest plus for linux is that it is 100% free! Plus there are many different "forms" of linux to chose from, ranging from those that are based for the desktop / home users (i don't know why) to the more complex server funtions.

Lindows is kinda my pet pony. It shows promise because it is getting support from major companies and has already made major leaps in its development, even though it is only in v2. A linux based OS that can run windows programs sounds pretty cool to me. Its different than Mac because you cant get a MS word CD (for example) that will run under windows and simply pop it into a mac and expect it to run. With lindows you can install any program that will run in Windows just as easily (even with autorun support!). However this is under optimal circumstances, the OS is still under development and not ALL windows programs will work for Lindows. As a matter of fact as of v2, only MS Office 2000 will install fine (still has issues with XP). But its pretty and has an interesting "Click-and-Run" program from the site. Where you find a program you want, click on it and boom its working on you're box (not sure how it works but thats how it is presented). And price as well, from walmart.com you can get a box and the OS for $299.00 0_0! Tho that does not come with the monitor so....

WinXP has some security issues but nothing to be concerned about if you have paid for it (which i have). Its good for media and is compatible with 98% (my number) of software titles out there, as well as many forms of hardware. Most companies have fixed drivers for any issues with WinXP, just in case

WinME (millinium edition) should have been called windows 98 third edition because thats basically what it is, it is prettier than 98 with some neat little tools but just as buggy as win98 and win98SE.

Win2K is my personal fave, its a cut-and-dry OS with only the bare bones that are needed. If you are a Major gamer, you may have some issues, but most big name games will run just fine. I have only found ~2 titles that are not 2K compliant

Mac OS i cannot vouch for other than it is a great OS for media, but not games. Apple has got great video software if you are into video editing and can support Photoshop and Premiere.

umm i think thats it, hope i helped

[MorningSon]

i think windows XP is good, stability of 2K, compatability of 98 best of both words at any rate...

i just wanted to add a friend if mine made a good comment on the lindows thing:

"Look its nice and all but there is already an OS that runs Windows Programs, its called Windows"

[ston]

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This was discussed in this previous thread.

stick with win 98 or go to XP?? (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=2476)

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[nasrules]

dual boot win xp pro and linux

[Deep Thought]

RedHat, Mandrake, or Lycoris linux are pretty much the tops in desktop linux distro's. Lindows is somewhat nice because it has a unified desktop but then again so do RedHat and lycoris. While it's true that lindows does have some built-in support for windows apps, you can get the same functionality by downloading Wine on any other distro, and other distro's don't charge you 100$ to get software that's freely available in every other linux os or on the internet.

[HansG]

Linux... we all hear a lot about it, users are very happy with it blah blah. I think the truth is that it can't do what the majority of the people want it to do, which is to run your favourite software. There's no question about it that that software will almost always be WINDOWS software.
Lindows: big words, no promise. It has abandoned it's plan to make it a Linux Windows hybrid, so all the promise Linux ever had for the average Joe is gone in my opinion.

No doubt about it that it's great for special purposes, but it's just not what you want as your 1st OS.

The Windows discussion then. Although it had it's bugs, and it's totally obsolete now, I'd still take Windows 95 over Windows 98, 98SE and ME.
Ever since IE4.0 came along with that quick launch bar and the millions of other files it installed, everything became very unstable. In Windows 95 it wasn't pre-installed, so I preferred that one. Windows 98 I had no longer a choice and I have always been at war with it. I have a lot of computer experience I think, but somehow Windows 98 managed to jam as soon as I had done a fresh install. It installed everything fine with some minor glitches, and then as soon as it was up and running it would come up with one of the ms thingies that was not responding. Closing it down meant taking down the system, or at least killing your internet connection.

98SE I have never tried. I tried ME though: bigger hardware demands, more unstable, no added extras.

Then... Windows 2000 Pro. I loved that OS... it was the best thing ever. I actually considered switching to Linux from 98 completely, I was so fed up with it. Windows 2000 was ROCKstable... it had trouble running my games though, but I considered it a small price to pay for a working and always running system (and I was a big gamer at the time... it wasn't an easy choice!).

Windows XP!!! Absolutely fantastic OS. Rockstable as Windows 2000, looks better, little nifty features that make working with it easier (hate the new Start-menu, but you can turn that off) and it runs everything. Every game... it works with every piece of hardware I have thrown at it.

Just my (long) 2 cents!

[MoonMan]

Originally posted by HansG
Then... Windows 2000 Pro. I loved that OS... it was the best thing ever. I actually considered switching to Linux from 98 completely, I was so fed up with it. Windows 2000 was ROCKstable... it had trouble running my games though, but I considered it a small price to pay for a working and always running system (and I was a big gamer at the time... it wasn't an easy choice!).

Windows 2000 is the BEST OS I have EVER had. I know I say it time and time again, but Jesus Christ it blows away my previous OS (Windows ME).

I like Windows XP better than Windows 2000 but because of some strange hardware dificulties, I cannot run it on my computer outside of safe mode. Ah well, Windows 2000 is good enough for me and the life time of this computer.. any new computers will surely have XP (or whatever new Windows platform is out by then, but I must try it out before I will put it on my PC).

By the way I am a big time gamer, and Windows 2000 has been fine with 99% of the games I have run.

[MoonMan]

I posted twice.. oopsy... disregard this post :mellow

[nasrules]

krell: no knock taken but i jus suggested it as linux is free!

[Azo-999]

Originally posted by manu323323
I am currently running windows 98 second edition and it works almost fine.
Now i would like to now what you all think of
win 9x,ME,2000,xp ,mac,linux,etc

Yes, You said it just right man! Win98SE works ALMOST fine, BUT : _________(Including Win ME)
- Explorer is crashing very easily, goes blank. has to reboot (many times so hang that cannot even be shut down correctly, have to press reset and wait for scandisk or interrupt it.)
- The hard disk partitions reports the free page incorrectly, common FAT32 issue with those op.systems. (The drive X:'s Boot area is corrupted.....Fix the proplem?) That sometimes causes pain for fileshare users downloading i.e. a huge AVI with Kazaa and suddenly : pop! the file cuts or disappears totally - incorrect space again !!
- Use the system up for few days (if U can), You get outta resources, everything's slowin' down, errors >>> Have to reboot (daily)
- Think of future : NOW almost every app still runs with 98´, but wait one year - things are alike evolving towards the new op- systems and one day microsoft will say goodbye to 98 as it's now saying byes for supporting 95.
- If upgrading now, why upgrading to a 2 years old Win2K or 5 years old NT4, which is supported by servicepacks to get to nowadays needs (still a good server...)
- I decided to go (almost) directly to XP Prof.
(I had ME a while, but I hated it, because it did not bring anything special or new. Slow boots, bad registry structure if having many big apps, same resource proglems, explorer goin' down, FAT32 errors, GatesWarez srvpacks weekly etc...
And the famous System Restore that can make gray hair, when suddenly starting to take 100% CPU-time or fill system drive with it's _Restore-directory....

Now i'm a happy XP Pro (SP1) user, having a server and a client at same machine, resources wont disappear, Ram stays optimized, can run fast and uncorrupted for days (weeks? never tried, because installed a lot soft - they always tell to boot)
Fast start, very customizable, (almost) all apps works just fine and a whole lotta new "Just-4-XP" apps / drivers are coming out more & more. At old apps (even for 16 bits) U can set compatibility mode to Exe's and Dll's to emulate them being at 9x/Me/2K/NT...
At home networks no more need to ?buy? soft for connection sharing, ICS works just fine. Good defragmenter (from Diskeeper), error checkin at reboot level when files are not locked, multibooting, multiprofiles, themes and effects tons build-in or by pluspack etc. and U just have to go to GaresWarez pages to read more to be convinced...

I personally have chosen to have 3 operating systems with multibootiing at my test PC (1Ghz Athlon) using BootStar's Bootmanager.

1. XP Pro at C:
2. Win NT4 with NTFS at H: (using 3rd party app to read NTFS / FAT32 partitions, so they wont disappear and drive letters wont change, that way I can share part of my SW with both op.systems.
3. Mandrake Linux with it's own partitions and swap taken from E: with partition Magic 8. It's a nice Linux version with soo much sw and still letting one to become an "Unix-Expert" at it's native level.
Also Mr. Mandrake sees all my partitions and YES, it can run some of the sw with its WINE, but quite a slowly (WINE is an emularor, just like WOW is an emulator at 32bit Windows taking care of those good old 16-bit apps developed until 1999), it's rather easier to D/L Linux apps that are coming up more and more. Personally I think that Linux (Redhat, Slackware, mandrake) are pretty near of the goal to finally come good competitors for GatesWarez (so P. mr.gates.com - this was a warning).

What more I can say than : Go On, Read, Stude, Convince U which is best, allways read end-users opinions too, because they lie to You only at Ads made by Op.System developers...;-)

So, Merry opsys-choosing, if U read the whole thread U can be quite a confused - I do not adwertise in this post - I only speak as a man who has used them all starting Motorolas 6802 microprocessors at 1980, used after that Commodore 16/64/128, Amiga, CP/M, DOS from the very beginning, OS/2, Windows 1.0-3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT3/4,XP, Linux from the beginning, Unix BSD/Sun Solaris, Apple Mac's from start to system7 / 8 / latest. At work PDP's, VAX's, IBM's, SUN SparcStations / Servers and many more....

(That means : I'm a scubby old man - no, not at all - for all 25 Y and below I shall say : Real Life begins when Ur forty+, sex won't stop, U can do anything as U did younger (not piss & poo to trousers, that's for 80+ Y ;-)

Peace !

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