The Best Os...?

Dragonwc99 · Post by **Dragonwc99** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 3:46 pm

I realize this has been posted allready, yet i can not find the post due to the 4 letter word restriction thingy on the search engine. Anyways, What is the best OS out of WinME, Win 98, Win 2000 Pro, Win XP. Or Rather what are the pros and cons of both. Also, What is the diff. between Red Hat Linux and Mandrake, pros cons? Thanks....

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 4:04 pm

Win2K Pro all the way, the stability of NT, with the compatibily of 98/ME, cept for gamers who run the old school games and maybe a drop in FPS, Win2K is the best.

gmcd33 · Post by **gmcd33** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 4:06 pm

Windows 2000 is by far the best Microsoft OS.

9x versions are unstable and dont manage resources very well. They do however have the best compatibility with games and other proggies.

ME is more unstable then 9x. It does provide more restore features then 9x in the event of a crash. It also has a LOT of drivers that come with it making it easy to install on laptops and other propriatary PC's when you dont have the drivers readilly available. Personally, I think ME is crap.

2000- By far the most stable, hands down. Makes much better use of system resources. Can handle much more RAM than ME or 9x. Compatibility with games isnt really as bad as people make it out to be. I have yet to have a game that will not run on 2000. With Service Pack 2 and some of the compatibility updates Windows 2000 should play anything that 9x operating systems can play. 2000 also supports the NTFS file system which doesnt fragment as much as 9x's FAT system. The security is business class and the operating system just plain rules. I would never use anything else.

XP- A crappy "improvement" if you can call it that of Windows 2000. Looks more like apple MAC os. Fun friendly colors. Xp has major restrictions. The licensing thing just plain sucks. Out of no where XP may stop working as it wants you to re-register it. Its also a resource hog and will slow things down quite a bit.

As far as Linux is concerned, I dont know a lot.

People say Red Hat is more difficult to use and that Mandrake is better. But who knows. I dont speak Penguin.

jdblitz · Post by **jdblitz** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 4:14 pm

W2KAS is GREAT, if you have broadband at home and work you will LOVE terminal services! Its not all that much more difficult to work with either. Just remember to create your own user id aside from the admin one, heheheh.(i just used the admin for myself on my first one and forgot password, can you say FORMAT C: /S?

HEHEHEH

JD

DVD Rewinder · Post by **DVD Rewinder** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 9:06 pm

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 9:24 pm

I realy enjoyed the new updated Dos 6.22

my first pc we got in the house had Dos 4 on it

overtime i've seen a lot of OS's come and go and stay

by far Win2k is the best one from MS yet....

not even XP can touch it yet, as it's been stated XP is a crappy 'improvement' it's just Win2k bloated out the ass with restrictions galore

as far as linux is concerned Mandrake is easy to run and comes with what you need, i've also had good exeperiances with SuSE distro

BMED · Post by **BMED** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 10:01 pm

WINDOWS 2000, THEE BEST SO FAR!

Thanks Bro! ur:2cool:

Gaming-Module · Post by **Gaming-Module** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 10:02 pm

How much does Win2k run you these days?

BMED · Post by **BMED** » Mon Jul 30, 2001 10:35 pm

Originally posted by Macho-Module
How much does Win2k run you these days?

bout $3.00 postage and handling!

ColdFusion · Post by **ColdFusion** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 5:56 am

Linux Slackware

CompGeek83 · Post by **CompGeek83** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 8:50 am

the mods may or may no like me posting this, but to get around the 4 letter restriction just add an asterisk or asterisks after your search

ie. you want to search for "dsl" type "dsl*"

the search engine sees this as 4 letters getting u past the restriction then treates the "*" as the wildcard it is

i just tried to search for "of", it wont let you search for "of**" but "*of*" works fine

USE THIS SPARINGLY as the restriction is there for a reason, it takes a while for the server to search for every utterance of the work "of" or anythig else shorter than 4 charactors

messiah · Post by **messiah** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 11:11 am

Originally posted by gmcd33
Windows 2000 is by far the best Microsoft OS.

9x versions are unstable and dont manage resources very well.

ME is more unstable then 9x. Personally, I think ME is crap.

2000- By far the most stable, hands down. Makes much better use of system resources. Can handle much more RAM than ME or 9x. Compatibility with games isnt really as bad as people make it out to be. I have yet to have a game that will not run on 2000. With Service Pack 2 and some of the compatibility updates Windows 2000 should play anything that 9x operating systems can play. 2000 also supports the NTFS file system which doesnt fragment as much as 9x's FAT system. The security is business class and the operating system just plain rules. I would never use anything else.

XP- A crappy "improvement" if you can call it that of Windows 2000. Looks more like apple MAC os. Fun friendly colors. Xp has major restrictions.

Right ON!

Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 11:16 am

I'm on WinME, don't really like it. I would install Win2K if i could figure out how i'm supposed to install it! lol

TRILL · Post by **TRILL** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 11:32 am

XP has major restrictions? The only restriction I see is the activation and it's so easily bypassed it might as well not be there. As far as the GUI goes, it's very customizable and can me made to look just like Win2k if desired. I like the new look and to compare it to OS X is actually a compliment. XP is a improvement over 2K even though it isn't billed as one. It's a upgrade for the 98/ME user more than anything else. Let's keep in mind that Xp hasn't even been released yet while 2K already has a service pack. Bsically Xp has everything Win2k does and more. I'll go with XP.

HalfLifer · Post by **HalfLifer** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 11:35 am

Originally posted by Banshee
I'm on WinME, don't really like it. I would install Win2K if i could figure out how i'm supposed to install it! lol

Pop in the Win2k cd (has to be ISO'ed or original) and boot from it.

Delete partition C:/, format wiht NTFS and install :2cool:

Thats how I do it.

lael007 · Post by **lael007** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 4:49 pm

Originally posted by TRILLAZZ
XP has major restrictions? The only restriction I see is the activation and it's so easily bypassed it might as well not be there. As far as the GUI goes, it's very customizable and can me made to look just like Win2k if desired. I like the new look and to compare it to OS X is actually a compliment. XP is a improvement over 2K even though it isn't billed as one. It's a upgrade for the 98/ME user more than anything else. Let's keep in mind that Xp hasn't even been released yet while 2K already has a service pack. Bsically Xp has everything Win2k does and more. I'll go with XP.

Everything he said, plus i have found latest builds of Winxp to be

more stable then Win2k. Also Winxp comes with Neat features

such as the Remote Desktop Sharing which is awesome, I can

use my computer from anywhere anytime and its really fast, as

long as you gotta a fast connection.

The activation is no biggie, since u can get rid of it as a fast as a

reboot. You may say resource hogger or too bloated? you can

easily get rid of all that stuff and make it look like win2k. But then

again when u got 256+ memory, why not put it to use?

Another good feature for proggies and games that only work in a

Win98/ME environment, is the " Compatibility Mode" which you

may choose to make it run like Win95/98/Me/NT4/Win2k, any of

those.

If you got any problems finding Xp, u can get it from microsoft for

only $10, drop me an Email here, I can hook you up.

Later

CompGeek83 · Post by **CompGeek83** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 4:56 pm

Originally posted by lael007

Everything he said, plus i have found latest builds of Winxp to be

more stable then Win2k. Also Winxp comes with Neat features

such as the Remote Desktop Sharing which is awesome, I can

use my computer from anywhere anytime and its really fast, as

long as you gotta a fast connection.

The activation is no biggie, since u can get rid of it as a fast as a

reboot. You may say resource hogger or too bloated? you can

easily get rid of all that stuff and make it look like win2k. But then

again when u got 256+ memory, why not put it to use?

Another good feature for proggies and games that only work in a

Win98/ME environment, is the " Compatibility Mode" which you

may choose to make it run like Win95/98/Me/NT4/Win2k, any of

those.

If you got any problems finding Xp, u can get it from microsoft for

only $10, drop me an Email here, I can hook you up.

Later

Win2000 has the same compatibility mode, there is an app on the cdrom that allows u to run stuff in compatibility mode, i cant find it on mine, but perhaps someone who has the full thing and not an oem install will have it........ also Win2k SP2 adds the compatibility mode feature into the properties for shortcuts and programs so....

dont get me wrong, ive used xp and like xp, but its not all that and a bag of chips

jeremyboycool · Post by **jeremyboycool** » Tue Jul 31, 2001 5:37 pm

Ya know that a hard one. I mean win98se has is a real good os. Sure win2k kicks ass. But its not for everyone. And Mandrake RULZ!
I like win98se win2k pro and linux mandrake. When I get a big enough hard drive I gonna run all three.