What operating system are you running?

[playafly187]

I use Win XP Pro on my main rig and XP Home on the laptop. how about you?

*awaits for the M$ flaming to begin*

[techniq]

I'm currently running Linux (mandrake 10), but keep a windows XP install around for when I need to play battlefield 1942 and want my joystick to work (WineX actually emulates bf1942 quite well, but I can't get my joystick to work with it, :( )

[striker777]

Win 2k

[MASSiVE]

98SE 8) i had xp for a while but didnt like it, only thing i'd liked was the looks of the gui, and i cant even count the number of errors or lockups i had when playing games on xp..never had anything like that on 98SE nor did i have to download a patch for problems regarding 98SE, everyone knows that 98SE is the best OS for gamers, if you want more then go for XP but im happy with 98SE like it is now :wink:

[playafly187]

98SE 8) i had xp for a while but didnt like it, only thing i'd liked was the looks of the gui, and i cant even count the number of errors or lockups i had when playing games on xp..never had anything like that on 98SE nor did i have to download a patch for problems regarding 98SE, everyone knows that 98SE is the best OS for gamers, if you want more then go for XP but im happy with 98SE like it is now :wink:

thats interesting. i was a huge 98se fan until xp came out and i fell in love with it. after working with both for a while, i find that xp is much more stable (no more BSOD) and installing new hardware is a snap with the auto-installing drivers. games run just fine on xp for me as well. :D

[techniq]

98 is also no longer support by the borg so you won't have to worry about those security/stability patches anymore ;)

[KryoNexus]

98 is also no longer support by the borg so you won't have to worry about those security/stability patches anymore ;)

i actually saw a news bit awhile ago that said MS might have to start supporting 98 again. dont' know if anything ever came of it though.

i'm running xp pro on my work and home computers.
on the laptop, i dual boot mandrake 10 and xp pro

[techniq]

I forgot I think I heard them basically being forced to support it because its still widely used. Its in fact the second commonly used OS for searches on google, with 22% (XP has 47%).

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

[siq]

I run XP and as soon as i get another HD I'll be running Slackware as well... hopefully :lol:

[striker777]

MS supported 98 with these last criticle updates since it was a such huge hole.

[fstroupe]

XP home. No flames from me.

[Beemer]

XP pro SP1 on all my boxes, guess I cant flame?!?

[silenze]

I'll contain myself on the M$ flaming, but just this once.

I use too many different computers, but I prefer these OS's, for different purposes of course:

Win2k pro, win2k adv server, winxp pro, slackware linux

[Roadracer_4ever]

XP Pro_SP1 here, occasionally I switch back to Win2K to troubleshoot a problem if I run into one and can't figure it out. Both behave very similar, but 2K is well into the second service pack and has less overall bugs and glitches in it thus far. I just hate the slow boot-up times on it, and have no problems gaming in XP, so no reason to switch back to 98.

[Axeman098]

Unless yer running XP WITHOUT SP-1, I can't imagine why you'd have issues gaming. I'd be willing to bet that if you used tthe Error Reporting Tool on one of those lockups, you'd find it's something besides the O/S.

I run XP Pro for my gaming and Internet chores, Win2000 SP4 for my Multi-track recording duties, and Server 2003 Enterprise Edition for my Business and educational stuff.

Linu-who??? :wink:

[Bio-Hazard]

Windows XP SP2 (Windows Beta Tester)............. :shock: Both machines........ 8)

[undergroundtech]

I have XP Pro w/SP1 on one box, and have Windows 98 on the other.

[mtfresh]

I'm running WinXP Pro sp1a with DirectX 9.0b

[racerboyf1]

XP pro sp1 on 1 and 2k pro on my 3 year old's system.

[zip]

I run like most of the people a Win XP PRO with SP1 because I had some problems with SP2 and I don't like it!
But I must say that if they resolved some issues on the 98se or 2k I would turn back to them.

[jester]

I have 3 servers running win server 2003 enterprise, 1 desktop w/ xp pro & 1 virtual machine w/ server 2k3 enterprise for testing.

[fstroupe]

Running XP64 on the new A64 rig I built for my grandson. I have found software that won't run on it, driver support still isn't all that great, but it has been running stable for over a month.

[Caj Darkmoon]

Win XP Pro SP2 on my main rig

Win2K Pro SP4 on my desktop P2 266

Win98 on old.laptop-1, an old IBM

And depending on which hard drive I install, either Win98 or Win95 on my even older laptop.

I think it's safe to say I'm a windows man...

To note here, I had FreeBSD and Mandriva 2006 installed on the 266 before win2k, but BSD didn't do what I wanted it to and Mandriva 06 is actually more of a resource hog then WinXP.

[Bio-Hazard]

I'm up to running XP Pro Corp on all my boxes in the house now. I tryied XP64 a few times on the A64 systems, but didn't really care for it all that much, so back to XP Pro.

[fstroupe]

I'm mainly running it cause its free....I'm gonna run Home or Pro on it eventually.

[privatedonut21]

Huh, I'm surprised no one is running the Vista Beta. I myself have XP Pro as my main OS and then a copy of Vista Beta 1 (dot something, I forget) for messing around. I also have a little POS system from the early 90s (no joke, this thing came with SimCity and Windows on floppy) that runs 95 because it doesn't have enough memory to upgrade to anything besides 98 and I don't have a copy of that. I plan to install some distribution or other of Linux eventually, haven't really decided which yet though.

Anyway, a short story involving Vista for anyone interested:

I'm in high school and take a Networking class, and this year our instructor took the class to Microsoft HQ in Richmond, VA and we took a tour of the facilities. Nice place and their network setup is amazing, I think they said it was about 20 million worth of equipment. They showed us a preview of Vista Beta 2 and let us mess with it a bit, and I'm liking how it's coming along, so be on the lookout for that. Several nifty features, one of my favorite being the ability for the OS to recognize flash drives as RAM instantly for an extra "punch" while gaming and such, and it boots and shuts down much (and I stress that) quicker than any other OS I've worked with, there's really no need for standby anymore even. So all in all a very cool day for me. After the tour they bought us some pizza for lunch and they even handed out a few games, I got a free copy of Halo.

[El_Seano]

I have a copy of the vista beta, just havn't loaded it yet

[zachig]

I'm currently using Windows XP Pro SP2. Really looking forward for the Vista to be out already!!! :wink:

[whitewolf36]

i run XP Pro on all my computers. I just dont care for home. computers at work used to be win 2000 but we switched to Pro.

[=CDU=Above]

XP Home but and just downloaded the Explorer 7.0 beta 2....besides a few script errors....works fine.

[Ultimate]

I'm running XP Pro on my home computer and my laptop, orginally they were both Home so I upgraded them :D

[Zenphic]

Windows XP Pro all the way! :D

[greenmaji]

Win 2K Pro, Unmbutu Linux (for now, Gentoo seems to be calling my name)

[Avalanche]

Windows XP Pro... I purchased it for the free upgrade to Windows XP Pro 64... But waited to long and the upgrade passed me by...