Poll: Dual boot, WinME and Win2K or... Win98SE and Win2K?

[dcdomain]

The other two computers in my house are running on WinME. Have had no problems with them so far... and the system restore actually helped my siblings out a few times. I'll be networking the computers together to connect to a router and DSL modem.

I know a lot of people think Win98SE is better... and I'm sort of in the same boat. But in this case, would it be better for me to go WinME and Win2K? That's what I have right now, but because of some ACPI problems, and the drives shutting down before they had a chance to finish writing (screwed my registry, can't boot up win2k now), I have to format and install once AGAIN! (3rd time in 10 days... including all the programs and updates!!!)

By the way... I think WinME gets rid of DOS right? Well I'm not really that proficient in DOS anyway, so it wouldn't be a big loss to me... and if I really needed to, I heard I could just use the Win98SE bootdisk to get into dos.

Lastly, I should've placed this in the OS forum, but I figured it would garner a quicker and larger response in this forum.

 

[Wingznut]

IMHO, WinME rocks!

 

[faolan]

<< By the way... I think WinME gets rid of DOS right? Well I'm not really that proficient in DOS anyway, so it wouldn't be a big loss to me... and if I really needed to, I heard I could just use the Win98SE bootdisk to get into dos. >>



Nope, WinME just tries really really hard to hide it away. All Win9x OS's are still just shells that start from DOS. Just the methods they use to do this, and how much hardware they take over once up and running is what has changed from Windows 1.0, 2.0 etc...

Personally, I haven't used ME enough to know, since I was dual booting Win2k and 98 before 2k came out, then switched to 2k only on my systems once it was final. From a technical standpoint, I would say ME, since it has newer support for everything, meaning less work in a reload. It is slower then 98 due to things like system restore running and such, but do you really need that extra 5fps in Quake 3 when it already runs quick enough? Is 5 fps worth the hassle of using an older OS? (I'm sure most &quot;fps freaks&quot; would run Win95 OSR1 if they still could today).