Win98SE,WinME,Win2K....building new system

[XRdirtHead]

decisions,decisions...My home machine is used mostly for surfing and games....anyone have any thoughts on the OS on my first build should be....thanks....

 

[Budman]

Surfing & games,

Then I would use Win98SE.

 

[Supradude]

i've got 2 systems, one on 98, one on ME, both are great and i have no problems with either, but for games & surfing, seems support is still better in 98se and there are some cool programs that won't run in ME, tetrinet for example = ) ... he he

 

[Yzzim]

I'm using Win2k for surfing and games
I play Age of Kings, CS, TFC, a bunch actually. Make sure your hardware is compatible if you decide to use Win2k though.

 

[skemlawn]

I'm a pretty hardcore gamer and I use 2k. It hasn't NOT run a single game I have thrown at it. You just won't be able to play any DOS games (mostly older games and emulators like Nesticle, ZSNES, and others), but then again you can always use an old dos boot disk or a win98 boot disk to play those games. Works good for flashing BIOS's that NEED to be in DOS mode.

Just make sure your hardware is compatible with 2k.

 

[PieDerro]

Win2K is oh so smooth and sweet. Use it once and you're hooked.

I know I am!! (But I can't afford it atm, so I use my mate's PC).

It makes his 866PII w/256MB RAM stomp all over my TBird 1.2GHz w/256MB RAM in 98SE.

EDIT: In terms of how the OS "feels"

 

[NFS4]

Windows 2000, nobody does it better

 

[hifimaster]

If your hardware supports it I would go with Win2000,I have not seen any of those "blue screens of death"since I installed on 12\25\00 I love it.

 

[PliotronX]

<< Win2K is oh so smooth and sweet. Use it once and you're hooked. >>



Aye! I'll go one step further and say it's....sexy

 

[XRdirtHead]

Great!!!! Thanks for your comments....looking more towards the OS that I was looking away from before.....

 

[jinglingxl]

anyone ever had problems buring cds in win2k?? I already got 2 coasters, and now halting on my cd production

 

[Whitedog]

If you're building from scratch, build it AROUND windows 2000. You Want windows 2000.

 

[XRdirtHead]

I am building from scratch...have everything except chip,mobo and graphics card....

 

[JayDub]

I'm going to be building from scratch as well, and will definitely be using win2k. I had ME on my laptop, and I hated it. 2k runs well on it (333MHz PII).

 

[Shu8]

go with win2k...you'll be extremely happy w/ the stability. i use it for surfing, games, and other stuff.

 

[Noriaki]

Win2k all the way!

I just upgraded from Win98SE to Win2kPro this past weekend.

Haven't had a problem yet!

Runs all my programs, desktop apps, programming stuff, games. All of it.

Win2k rocks

 

[LuNoTiCK]

I plan on dual booting between win98se and win2k. I wonder how it would go.

 

[Whitedog]

I don't know why people want dual boot. I guess it's hard to let some things go (9x).

hehe

 

[Instigator]

bump

 

[XRdirtHead]

just one more bump...looks like win2k will be the one though...

 

[wxman]

I just up graded to Win2000, and only went back to 98SE to copy over my .wab (web address files) It's so sweet, so smooth, so damn fast! You'll love it.

 

[limsandy]

definitely try win 2000.
If you don't like it, stick with the buggy Win 98 SE.

 

[Compuguru]

Another vote for Win2k from me

It stable, fast, altogether a very tight OS.

 

[Compuguru]

DP.

 

[cipher00]

one more for 2k. really.