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| Thread ID: 41335 | 2004-01-07 11:41:00 | Whats the best OS? | nobody (5086) | Press F1 |
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| 205940 | 2004-01-07 21:06:00 | I usually use pen and paper plus a lot of thinking. Never fails!! Computing is partly recreation, part business. Which OS doesn't matter that much unless you're like microsoft and in the business of providing them. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 205941 | 2004-01-07 21:13:00 | Ying You can re-install W98se without altering/losing your info & settings. Did mine yesterday. 18 months after initial install, and appears to be better & faster. I may be wrong, but it is basicly a repair. Boot from floppy - at prompt type in your CD drive letter - insert Win cd - type "setup.exe" and go make yourself a coffee. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 205942 | 2004-01-07 22:01:00 | > . . . the more u run windows the more > unstable it gets? . > . . . windows 98se and have problems as i run it > more and use it more! yingxuan, personally, I think Win98se is quite unstable . I encountered lots of stability problems when using Win98se; that's the reason why I upgraded to XP Pro . If possible- (both hardware compatibility and financially) upgrade to XP . I even have a PII 400 hz with 128 MB running XP and it is running fine; of course, a little slow . But it is OK for normal word processing and Internet surfing . In general, I would recommend XP for its stability and compatibility (software) . W2K is as good as XP, though . |
bk T (215) | ||
| 205943 | 2004-01-07 22:06:00 | The question is moot if microsoft manage to get what they want in relation to their plans for your PC (uh I mean microsofts PC). Longhorn, DRM, Palladium are the one and ONLY future for you and me and that means the end of asking which OS is better as you will only be able o use one OS if MS get their way (and they are well on the way to getting their way). Hardware based DRM locked to an OS...excellent! Read and weep people....the future. www.aaxnet.com |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 205944 | 2004-01-07 22:09:00 | Windows is pretty stable, if you dont muck around with it. I mean for the last 7 days or so i havent been using the comp as much (doing hay etc) and when i do get home i am only using Opera and internet explorer. And only playing Quake2 on the net. But my comp was awake for 6 days without a stuff up. it only got restarted because my sister thinks because if MSN doesnt sign in she has to restart the comp. And i guess it does matter on what your sys specs are...Mine is AMD Duron 900 mhz, 3d prophet 32 meg vid, 192 ram, 20 gig seagate But seeing as how i r MrBeef, steak is definately the winnar! |
MrBeef (342) | ||
| 205945 | 2004-01-07 22:17:00 | Whats that saying, save a cow, eat a vegetarian :D :D | MrBeef (342) | ||
| 205946 | 2004-01-07 22:51:00 | Did anyone note the username of the person who started this thread and the number of posts they have? Something smells fishy, perhaps a thread trying to stir up some peoples strong feelings for and against operating systems. Looks like it just brought out our zany sides :D |
agent (30) | ||
| 205947 | 2004-01-07 23:41:00 | I've been runing Windows 2000 for 48 hours with Opera, Dreamweaver, and Excel open... saweet! 375360MB pagefile usage. |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 205948 | 2004-01-08 00:44:00 | Yeah, I noticed that too agent.... Very fishy... They must be a vegetarian themselves ;-) That's quite a bit of Swap file usage you've got going there.. over 300MB used... Ive got a 4 days, 5 hours and 19 minute uptime right now, have literally 30 applications open (Thank goodness that GNOME keeps the virtual-desktop's seperate) and still havent used SWAP. 512MB RAM on an AthlonXP 1700+ During this time, I stop and play UT2K3 Demo (Ive got a GF4 MX440SE-T) with all the applications open, including Gaim and aMSN, Thunderbird, firebird, xmms (playing) etc etc. There's not difference compared to if I close them all down, my graphics card is the biggest bottleneck :-( Come to think of it.. I feel like some fish for lunch..... Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 205949 | 2004-01-08 00:58:00 | Depends on what your gonna use your computer for and how much your gonna use it . I like linux but I find it a little complicated sometimes . I have 3 os's installed, windows 2k, redhat 9 . 0 and knoppix 3 . 3b (I used the install script) . If you want simplicity, windows, if you want flexibility and stability, linux . I havent tried Mac OS much so I wouldn't know if it was any good . John |
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