Best Performance and Stability of Operating Systems

[Citadel535]

I did a search on this and was only able to find Windows 2000 information. My new system is running fine but I would like to know what has the best performance and stability out of:

Windows 98
Windows Me (my fav since I was on the beta team)
Windows NT 4
Windows 2000

I am running Windows XP now and although it looks nice I can feel the snailspeed technology built in along with code bloat. I want my system to run nice and not crash but not feel the performance hit with the 2000 kernel. I was thinking of triple booting with three separate partitions: Windows 9x (based on what you recommend), Windows NT 4 (stability of NT without the code bloat of 2000), and Red Hat Linux on the third partition. Don't own too many games but I want to keep 9x around just in case I get a quake craving. Please help me out!

 

[MasterHoss]

On your Athlon system, you shouldn't have any "performance" hit using Win2k (the difference in performance between Win9x and Win2K is only minimal--not really noticable; morever, it seems as though my Win2k is performing better with time and the occasional defrag.)

WinXP is supposed to be slightly faster than Win2k--so if you aren't experiencing something that's a litte faster than Win98SE and a bit slower than WinMe, then you probably need to add more RAM although 256MB is what beta testers are recommending.

 

[Davegod75]

wk2 should run just fine. I do not think it is bloated.