Windoze

[c2006]

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I actually like Vista. It does what I need it to. It has a nice interface. Useful interface enhancements. whether or not it is Apple's "Spotlight" does not matter. The fact is, that it is a good addition. That DRM stuff sucks.

I voted Windows 2000. the Windows installation I fell in love with... I'm sorry, but Windows XP is atrocious. No amount of theming that I have done, has covered the ghastly cartoonish appearance of XP.

Besides the slitting wrist option for forgot windoze 3.11 the first and only stable product from redmond

Windows 3.11, Stable!!! I am rolling on the floor laughing...

It was more stable than Windows 95 (horror!), but I wouldn't call it stable,... then again, most of my Windows nightmares involve Windows 95.

95 wasn't terrible. Now, Windows 98, First Edition.... That, alongside ME, is an abomination.

I know from personal experience.

[CVPunk]

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chose Windoze xp since I still have a dual boot box with it on about 20gigs, and I also have to use it at work.

[Monster_user]

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95 wasn't terrible. Now, Windows 98, First Edition.... That, alongside ME, is an abomination.

I know from personal experience.

Well, I will concede that 98 First Edition was worse than 95.

However, given a proper system, Windows Me was not an abomination. It actually ran quite well, and was more stable than my brother's Win98 SE systems. If you ignored the CD-ROM drive blue screen...

I'm not going to defend WinMe much, but I did enjoy using it for a while.

[KeithZG]

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Windows 3.11! Yes it was pretty good, once you learned how to edit pif and ini files, and got your dial-up modem to work by resolving IRQ conflicts manually, and manually configured your winsock settings.

Haha oh gods I know! Although for me that was my Win95 experience in a nutshell (I was in grade 5 I think and the computer store we bought our Pentium 100mHz box from didn't know how to get things to work, just to re-install and leave the old problems...so young little me had to learn how to manually resolve IRQ conflicts and the rest, by the end of which my future as a computer geek was set in stone!)

I put down Win98 because it's easy enough to burn a CD in there, and recently a friend of mine needed me to get some data off of an old 386's HDD...at which point I discovered it was compressed with DoubleSpace, which is intensely evil and woe be he who has to get data out of a DoubleSpace-compressed drive without a DOS-based version of Windows, of which 98SE is the best/least-deadly. So 98 for those arcane closed-source DOS-based things and then burning off the results (and a Linux distro for sanity!)

....but as far as Windows ME goes. I had heard tales of people stripping down ME to make it work as the perfect retro (Windows/DOS) gaming OS since it's running on top of DOS but has the modern-ish NT networking stack to play with, the main modification being that one would replace the infernal memory manager with an open source stand-in so that it wouldn't, you know, leak to 100% useage and crash. But does anyone know what this replacement would be? I could never find out what people had been referring to.

[kjjjjshab]

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...However, given a proper system, Windows Me was not an abomination. It actually ran quite well, and was more stable than my brother's Win98 SE systems. If you ignored the CD-ROM drive blue screen...

I'm not going to defend WinMe much, but I did enjoy using it for a while.

My wife's Thinkpad still runs Millennium Edition flawlessly after all these years...

[Primoz]

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I use XP home I got it OEM on my computer....
And today I really customized it...
I added
MS virtual desktop manager...
Flip view
and
3D Cube
I don't know why so many of Linux users openly hate Windows. I personally don't love it but I don't hate it.
And as you can see you can make your Windows look like Linux...
I frankly can't wait when plasma gets ported and supported on win XP as well.
Then I really will have to wait and think why am I using Linux

[noelvh]

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I love XP it dose every thing one needs in the way of computing, and no one can tell me other ways no one.

As a desktop support tech I spend all day fixing XP, and getting it to play nice with the hundreds of apps needed by my company. I am also board to death by XP, I need a challenge to keep my interested, and XP dose not do that any more for me, well not so much any more.

So when I get home I want to pick up my laptop and do what I need to do with out fixing up dating or just messing around, that is one reason I moved to linux. Another big reason it cost. As a tech I get my hands on allot of free computers and have a good collection of them. With all of my boxes I was using lots of well unpaid software and want to go legit. To go legit using windows would break me$$$$. I was on a free ware kick for some time and was happy till I gave in to the dark side of Linux and my life has been much better for it.

I am sure this is some one elsess story but I felt I should put my name on it.

I am going to run Linux at home till it dose not work any more, and then some.

Noel Vh

[divide0]

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I've never really had a major problem with ANY windows operating system that I've used (98SE,2000,XP,Vista). My favorite, however, was windows 98SE. It was just...fun to use, in my opinion. I found it easy to use, and I could pretty much do anything on it. I put it on one of my old computers...and it boots in 15 seconds, and shuts down in 6! (...although it's not hooked up to the internet; the computer only has 64MB RAM). There are some days that I long to go back to Windows 98SE...but in the end, I'd be happier with Kubuntu!

[Kgamer804]

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I've never really had a major problem with ANY windows operating system that I've used (98SE,2000,XP,Vista). My favorite, however, was windows 98SE. It was just...fun to use, in my opinion. I found it easy to use, and I could pretty much do anything on it. I put it on one of my old computers...and it boots in 15 seconds, and shuts down in 6! (...although it's not hooked up to the internet; the computer only has 64MB RAM). There are some days that I long to go back to Windows 98SE...but in the end, I'd be happier with Kubuntu!

Similar, i think 98SE is just THE BEST Version of Window$ to date. No hassle from me. Ever. But thien I Formatted the then-massive 6gb hard drive and but xubuntu on it. Suckers.

[hern_28]

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winblows XP.. has the best looking blue screen.

[cantab]

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98SE is the version of Windows I had when I first tried Linux. Didn't take me that long to switch for everything except games. Back then I didn't have the internet.

[kd8hho]

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i had to chose XP since i still use it to run world of warcraft.

couldnt get wow to run with ku and wine