Favorite OS of all-time.

[[Corporal Dan]]

What is your FAVORITE OS of all time?

Which do you like and why?

[[Corporal Dan]]

I'm torn between Windows NT4 and 2000

I like NT4 because it's 100% bloat-free, fast, unbeatably stable. Works on old machines too.

I like nt5 (2000), becasue it's compatible, stable, and very fast.


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As for UIs, I like win3.1

It's nice.

[Matthyahuw]

Actually I love XP, more stable than 2000 w/ SP2 for me, and a it was easier to setup my home network on it as well...

[vampireuk]

2000 is my all time favourite the most stable thing I have ever used. Never once crashed on me :)

*pokes corp with a copy of windows ME* you know you want it!;) :p :D

[[Corporal Dan]]

*PUKES*

I'd rather sleep with a pepper!

As for XP, while I liked the updated UI and streamloined config, the stability dodnt imnpress me.

Also, it's BLOATARIFFIC

[monkeydust]

What difference does it make how bloated a piece of software is anyway? Memory is so cheap these days, I really don't see how that comes into play. I like Windows XP quite a bit. I think Microsoft's OS's keep getting better with each release.

[[Corporal Dan]]

Yes, but when your mobo maxes out at 512, the price of mem isn't gonna help.

XP is generally slower than 2k.

I don;t see a reason why it should be though.

Not THAT much added on

[Starscream]

2k for me, it's fast and stable.

[|JuiceZ|]

although I love XP, win2k will be my all time fav since it was the first time they combined the stabilty of nt w/ the multimedia capabilities of the win9x kernel.

[Matthyahuw]

Originally posted by [Corporal Dan]
*PUKES* it's BLOATARIFFIC I'll give ya that! :D

[netviper13]

Bloatware indeed, but it loves my 512mb of RAM. My big reason for not going back to 2k is the driver/gaming support. XP detects and installs nearly all of my hardware, and I don't have to fight messy driver installations.

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by vampireuk
2000 is my all time favourite the most stable thing I have ever used. Never once crashed on me :)

*pokes corp with a copy of windows ME* you know you want it!;) :p :D

it burns, it burns!

[|JuiceZ|]

Originally posted by StealthHawk


it burns, it burns!

LOL! I hear it cracklin' :p

[PsychoSy]

Infidels!!

DOS ownz j00 all!! Aside from WinXP, DOS is king.
:D :p

[prydah]

my fave OS has gotta be win98se

i dont kno what u guys have been doing to your win98se, but my system hardly crashed on me especially when i upgraded to my duron 650 from my pentium 166. i tweaked the hell out of it and i learned a lot of ins and outs and do's and dont's of this darn system that until now... being asked this question i cant help but say that win98se is it.

however i am not using it now... hehe
im using win2k and mandrake 8.1

but both of those systems r dual booted with win98se as an OS to fall back on because i feel i kno it so well to get me out of trouble if anything should happen. but i will admit that both win2k and linux has not crashed on my yet and seems highly stable


i have to mention my past favorites DOS and win31, i started really learning about pc's from these 2 systems first dos then win31 (i did play with other systems before tho but the others were not as user friendly for me at that time, i was barely learning about pc's)

DOS helped me the most because then i would have been pissed that i couldnt tweak the gui (win31) and later when i felt an urge to delve into unix. because of DOS, the unix command line and gui learning curve was actually so ridiculously easy and i realized how many thousands of times more powerful than DOS it was and still is

win31 was the first gui that i actually got into tweaking and made it easy to transition into win95 and winnt and later into win98se and win2k and also transition into macOS 7, 8 and 9 and later into macOS X and winXP


win98se i may never use it again unless linux or win2k crashes on me but it has a special place in my heart

<reminisce>oh all the games that i could play on it lol</reminisce>


;)

[vampireuk]

Originally posted by StealthHawk


it burns, it burns!

Only by converting to Linux shall you be scaved:D :p

[Kruno]

bah I can't even hit 60fps in Max Payne at 1024x768 32bpp with AA and/or AF in 98SE. In XP I always get over 60 :p. I Benched XP to 98SE and XP always had the upperhand in every benchmark and game under the sun. Hence I stick with XP. My 3dmark in 98SE is around 4k. 98 hates 768mb ram.

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by K.I.L.E.R
bah I can't even hit 60fps in Max Payne at 1024x768 32bpp with AA and/or AF in 98SE. In XP I always get over 60 :p. I Benched XP to 98SE and XP always had the upperhand in every benchmark and game under the sun. Hence I stick with XP. My 3dmark in 98SE is around 4k. 98 hates 768mb ram.

yup, 9x OSes don't like large amounts of RAM and performance actually decreases with too much. that's actually very hilarious.

[vampireuk]

wonder what would happen if you tried to encode a dvd on a 9x system, would it commit suicide?:D

[[Corporal Dan]]

No, you'd reach the Fat32 max filesize limit and get a bluescreen

[saturnotaku]

I chose XP - the stability of 2k with the game/multimedia compatibility of 9x (for the most part). Sure it may be bloated comparatively but that hasn't gotten in the way of anything I do. XP is a great OS that I've seen run perfectly fine on even 256 mb RAM.

[[Corporal Dan]]

You WILL notice a diference with an extra 256MB though.

xp is comfortable with 256

it runs tops with 512 or more , though

god i wish my mobo supported more than 512.

I want at least a gig.

[netviper13]

I love having 512, it runs so much smoother than when I had 256. If I can ever afford it, I may get another 256.

[|JuiceZ|]

Originally posted by [Corporal Dan]
You WILL notice a diference with an extra 256MB though.

xp is comfortable with 256

it runs tops with 512 or more , though

god i wish my mobo supported more than 512.

I want at least a gig.

tru dat © corp! I think 512 is winxp's sweet spot, I love it.

[retsam]

the first commodor "vic 20 or 64 or 128"heheh it had a built in basic compiler and 16 colors and the most game ive ever had on a system. i had 100's of games and there were soooo many origanal games. not like today were all the games follow in the same footsteps as before. it was soooo much fun never worried about boot problems. it even just turned on!!!! gawd i miss that feature !!!!!!!!! all with 64 k or ram hehehe something xp cant doo with all the memory in the world