Which OS are you using and why?

[omegaRED]

Win2K Pro

Had 98SE and Me, way too much problems, stability & LOTS of mem usage.

Win2k - totally in control, extremely stable, am willing to sacrifice SOME games for it

[omegaRED]

BTW Wulfie, what kind of Scanner do you have?

[mdhome]

Win2k on all machines for games, web and some development etc. All machines can dual boot into Win98 and one has a NT4 partition.
Tried Linux I dont really like it (too much hard work) but seeing as I have a spare 2 gig scsi I might give it another try with a more recent distribution.

[Liquid Snake]

Win2K on my main machine. Much more stable and faster (in some ways) than Win98. Never crashes unless I do something stupid (e.g. o/c my P3-750 to 900).

Win95 on my P133 - because that's what was originally on it, and the machine's too slow to put a newer OS on it. Does nothing but run Genome@Home.

My P166 used to run FreeBSD (just to learn) before the HD crashed

[Wulfman]

@omega: ScanTak 12P

company bankrupt before the release of win2k... afaik

mfg
wulfman

[Electric Amish]

Win98SE all around except for my P133 Laptop that has 95 on it.

Celeron 300@464 (Wife's machine) is dual boot with an old install of RH6.1.

I'll probably put a dual boot on my main machine (Duron 800 @1035) with RH7.1.

I use 98SE because of games. My 2 current favorites (Age of Kings & Asheron's Call) are both MS products, therefore will never be ported to Linux...

Don't use 2K 'cuz Greebe said it sucks. (oh, and I have an Aureal SQ2500)

amish

[Robbo]

Ok Im different

K here goes I must be the odd one out here

I use WinME - for stability against Win 98 (found it to be anyway)
also fell into the trap of if it's newer it should be better ?
At the mo thou I have to say for me ME has/is better than 98.

seeya...............

Robbo

[Gurm]

Windows XP exclusively.

With the release of RC1, all previous operating systems are obsolete. Here's why:

Win95, 98, 98se, ME: I have two CPU's. 'Nuff said.

Win2k: Slower than XP, less compatible with hardware and games.

Linux: It's a 30 year old OS, people. UNIX is DEAD. Plus there's no (good) software. Get a clue, you can't get anything at all done with this OS.

BeOS: No software, good or otherwise.

- Gurm

[The PIT]

win2k/win98 (Gaming) dual boot on one machine and win2k another. I just like the win2k becuase it's stable.

[Technoid]

Dualboot W2k/W98SE!

[Admiral]

Win ME

Worked pretty good, up untill I got my ram to 384.
Now it leaks memory like crazy.
Guess I'll try 2k.

[Wombat]

At home iI use (despite Gurm's ignorance, stubbornness, and severe need of a good LART) Linux. 98SE for games.

At work I'm using HP-UX (because, after all, what else runs well on a C360?).

[TomNuttall]

WinME on both my machines (1.2 Tbird and P3 650) Both 512mb ram
Never a problem!

Tom

[The Rock]

Win2k for me too, soon to be XP because I have dual CPUs.

Bart

[Gurm]

Stubborn? Yes.

Ignorant? NOW I'M OFFENDED.

You can call me pig headed, you can call me biased, you can call me a lot of things but ignorant I ain't, pal.

I didn't really want to get into this argument here, but I'll say what I've said a thousand times. When you can show me a BETTER 3D design program than Maya or 3DS Max, a BETTER image manipulation program than Photoshop, and a BETTER office suite than Office XP - then Linux might be worth considering.

But Gimp, Blender, and Star Office (aka Shit Office) aren't those programs.

- Gurm