What OS do you use?

[Joey]

XP Home, and i like it.

 

[Giancarlo]

Windows ME.

 

[Spock]

Originally posted by LoudMusic
I don't run an OS. OSes are for wussies.

what do you use then? dos?

i use home editon

 

[made in holland]

I use XP Home Edition, and i like it.
Never crashed once since i installed it almost a year ago.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

2x 2000 Pro, 1x Red Hat Linux 7.2, 1x 98SE (But that last one is so close to being rebuilt, you have no idea!)

This should probably be in the Computers and Internet forum.

 

[GTOne]

Linux Mandrake 8.0, Windows 98,
XP Pro

 

[Shannon]

Is XP better? Why or why not?

Yes. XP and 2000 are more stable than Win 9x thus you won't see that damn blue screen of death.

It's more stable than any Windows 9x. At least, it is for me. And I really like the design!

XP's flashy new look actually takes away some of your system performance in case you aren't in the know. It is only 3%, so it is no biggy - but if you are really trying to get the best performace out of your comp, set your XP back to Classic to get that extra 3% back.

Back on topic - I am using Windows 2000 Professional. I like it but I'm thinking of stealing me old man's XP Home disk and loading XP up.

 

[mayorbill11]

XP uses less processor power than 98. my P2 350/288mb ram runs way better and faster with XP than it does with 98se. processor - ram = pointless.

 

[Brian P]

XP Pro & 2K Pro

 

[smg]

Win 2000

 

[Race Idiot]

Originally posted by dchamham
what do you use then? dos?

Dos is an operating system.

Disk Operating System.

I use.

Win NT 4.0
Win 2K

Linux Mandrake (On my test PC)

I had XP running at a very useable level on my P3 500mhz computer. Although it does have 640mb of ram. Although I still hate XP I just errr don't hmmmm............

Don't like it.

 

[Duke]

Win 2k Pro at work, which I heartily dislike.

Mac OS 9.2 at home, which I like a lot. Haven't had a compelling reason to go OSX yet but I'm interested to see it when I do.

 

[Ryan2]

Err, Windows ME.

 

[Max Powers]

We have Windows 98 on the computer that my brother and I usually use. Windows 95 in my room, and Windows XP on my dad's computer upstairs.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by mayorbill11
ram = pointless.

I would be interested to see you come up with some metrics to prove this.

 

[Duke]

Yeah, especially on a Windoze machine which gobbles the stuff like candy. I used to think Macs had high system overhead, until I got under the hood of a Windoze machine.

My Mac OS 9.2 system, with all the extensions etc. I need, runs about 32-36 megs out of my 256 megs or RAM. OSX is worse, but still not as bad as Windows. And I can pop up a little built-in window that tells me exactly how much RAM each open program (including the system) is using at any given moment.