Quick question on clean Win98 install

[HedsSpaz]

Weeee!!! So, I finally got my new Athlon Mobo and 15 gb HD today. So as soon as I get home from work I'm going to start playing. Right now I'm using Win98SE, I used to use Win98, and I'm trying to figure out which one I should go with this time. Now I've heard numerous arguments favoring one or the other. So lets bash it out once and for all.
Which is better, 98, or 98se?
Go to it guys and gals.



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System Specs
K6-2 350 @ 400
Asus P5A
256 MB PC133 SDRAM
Matrox Mill G200 AGP PD 5.41/5.30 hybrid
SBLive value LiveWare 3.0
13.6 GB 7200RPM UDMA33 IBM HD
8.4 GB 5400RPM UDMA33 WD HD (Dead, still trying to rescusitate)
45X Acer CD-ROM
Win98 se
Red Hat 6.1
Win2000 (to be added soon)
Ready to change to!
Athlon 650 (got it! YEA!!)
128 mb PC133 SDRAM (got it! YEA!!)
Epox 7KXA (Finally here!!!!)
15gb Maxtor HD
"Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C. Clarke

[Brian R.]

On my system, Win 98SE has been more stable.

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650e PIII @ 806 Mhz w/Alpha P3-125 heatsink/fan, ABIT BE6, 128 MB Muchkin PC133 + G400 MAX, Diamond V2 SLI, CL SB Live with Sennheiser HD-600 headphones, Sennheiser DSP360 Dolby processor, and Shure FP22 headphone amplifier, Adaptec AHA2940 w/uw SCSI, IBM 9ZX 9.1GB 10K UW SCSI HD, WDE 4360 4.3GB 7.2k UW SCSI HD, Pioneer 303s SCSI DVD, Win98SE, in a modified Supermicro SC750A case with PCP&C Silencer 275W PS, and a partridge in a pear tree.

[Greebe]

Two maids a milking... really thou, I've heard more stability from either, depending on system config. I'm not a MS nut and don't use ICS (but use NAT32, which is better) so for me it's win98+ patches.

[RAB]

Win98SE is fairly stable. Not as stable as NT, but much better than the Win95 it replaced on my computers. I went straight from 95 to 98SE - primarily because I wanted the ICS. Unfortunately, ICS has been a bigger problem with AOL ( I'm embarassed to admit I use it, but with four users and a daughter that lives on Instant Messenger, I can't give it up.) But be forwarned, ICS and AOL don't mix. I can either get AOL or TCP/IP to work on my peer to peer network, but not both at the same time. And I think AOL destroys ICS if it can. Oh well, maybe you will have better luck than I did.

RAB

[Alfie]

Win98se here,se is really win98 as they wanted to release it,but due to the pending doj hearings,etc.Microsoft rushed win98 out.
Win98,for example,misses loading in up to 12 vxd files,which can lead to problems down the road.
That was corrected in se.
SE also tends to be a little more up to date with hardware and a little more stable.
It may be adviseable to get win98 and the se upgrade.(The se upgrade is available from Microsoft for about $24.00)
In this way you could check out both versions!