computergeek92 wrote:

Win2k fanboys, I have no idea what's wrong with you..... And Win98SE, don't get me started. Haha!

Please don't go there.... Just a friendly advice.
If I way ask, then what are you'r take on people using BASIC, BeOS, AmigaOS or Os/2 as their main hobbyist's OS?

Trust me: privacy is an illusion. Nowadays virtually everything is tracked. SSNs, driver licenses, electronic DBs with every purchase / paycheck, every piece of mail, CCTV (facial / voice recognition) and all these electronic DBs are increasingly linked and accessible by governments and their contractors. Internet traffic, phone traffic and TV traffic is all tracked and IP based.

Even when you live out in the sticks and are not connected all your mail / movements are tracked.

The question is whether it matters: from all the crime and terror that still occurs is it very obvious monitoring is ineffective.

I use MS-DOS 6.22 on my vintage PC. Plus Windows 3.1 (or 3.11: I do not remember). 😀

PeterLI wrote:

I use MS-DOS 6.22 on my vintage PC. Plus Windows 3.1 (or 3.11: I do not remember). 😀

So does George RR Martin (well the Dos-Part), whenever he is working....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5REM-3nWHg
If you like Game of thrones, then that is just amazing to know. 😜

brostenen wrote:

computergeek92 wrote:

Win2k fanboys, I have no idea what's wrong with you..... And Win98SE, don't get me started. Haha!

Please don't go there.... Just a friendly advice.
If I way ask, then what are you'r take on people using BASIC, BeOS, AmigaOS or Os/2 as their main hobbyist's OS?

No offence meant. We are just debating.

To answer your question, I've never used BASIC, BeOS, AmigaOS or Os/2 so I can't give you a valid argument.

computergeek92 wrote:

No offence meant. We are just debating.

To answer your question, I've never used BASIC, BeOS, AmigaOS or Os/2 so I can't give you a valid argument.

To tell the truth, I felt a bit looked down on. As my main OS's for retro activity are Win98se and MS-Dos-6.22.
It's ok to use Win2K, XP and even Win95. They are just not my main focus point.
People are even free to use WinME and Vista, and that is ok and should allways be ok.

It all depends on your gaming taste. No problem in that.

For Windows 2000 is good to use good fast harddisk like for Vista. On old harddisk 9 Gb which I using in my PIII600 laptop with 256 MB RAM XP SP3 was far faster than 2000, when I was using 2000 it loads far longer than XP there, Vista is like 2000 with that.

Call me crazy, but I think it's fun to use Vista just because of how bad people think it is 😀
I've moved to Vista at an early stage, because I had to do DX10-related development. I kept that installation on a few of my systems, and even today I still regularly test my software on Vista, because heh.

Scali wrote:

Call me crazy, but I think it's fun to use Vista just because of how bad people think it is 😀
I've moved to Vista at an early stage, because I had to do DX10-related development. I kept that installation on a few of my systems, and even today I still regularly test my software on Vista, because heh.

You are not crazy, but also I like Vista or even ME, but I don`t like 2000 for using harddisk too much.

I ran 2000 for about one year, a couple of month's after it was released.
What I remember was, that it was an ok system. A bit sluggish on a K6-II-500 with 32mb of ram.
I too remember that it was so much larger installed, compared to Win98.
Hmmm... What else.... Stable and such. I never had it running more than aprox that year.
2000 have never ever given me a BSOD and would run without reboot for days.
After that, I bought some more memory and upgraded to WinXP on the same machine.
When I ran 2000, I still had no real software for it. So I dualbooted it with Win98.
Only had ME installed a day or so. Totally buggy on that machine.
My parents had a different experience. They ran ME, solid, on a Compaq presario. No issues there.

EDIT:
The machine that I had during the trasition from Win98 to WinXP was the following...

- Gigabyte GA-5AX rev. 4.1
- 32mb Ram (128 when I had XP on it)
- K6-II-500
- TNT2-M64
- Creative SB-128 and SB16 CT2770 Value Edition.
- Gravis Ultrasound ACE.
- 4gb + 8gb + 800mb HDD's and an Acer CD-RW drive (early version without buffer underrun protection)
- Got my first V1 card for this machine (Orchid).

For a sidenote. I now remember that I actually used Tripple boot untill a year after I started using
WinXP, because of the GUS-ACE I used to have installed in this machine.

brostenen wrote:

I ran 2000 for about one year, a couple of month's after it was released. What I remember was, that it was an ok system. A bit s […]
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I ran 2000 for about one year, a couple of month's after it was released.
What I remember was, that it was an ok system. A bit sluggish on a K6-II-500 with 32mb of ram.
I too remember that it was so much larger installed, compared to Win98.
Hmmm... What else.... Stable and such. I never had it running more than aprox that year.
2000 have never ever given me a BSOD and would run without reboot for days.
After that, I bought some more memory and upgraded to WinXP on the same machine.
When I ran 2000, I still had no real software for it. So I dualbooted it with Win98.
Only had ME installed a day or so. Totally buggy on that machine.
My parents had a different experience. They ran ME, solid, on a Compaq presario. No issues there.

EDIT:
The machine that I had during the trasition from Win98 to WinXP was the following...

- Gigabyte GA-5AX rev. 4.1
- 32mb Ram (128 when I had XP on it)
- K6-II-500
- TNT2-M64
- Creative SB-128 and SB16 CT2770 Value Edition.
- Gravis Ultrasound ACE.
- 4gb + 8gb + 800mb HDD's and an Acer CD-RW drive (early version without buffer underrun protection)
- Got my first V1 card for this machine (Orchid).

For a sidenote. I now remember that I actually used Tripple boot untill a year after I started using
WinXP, because of the GUS-ACE I used to have installed in this machine.

Similar to what I ran back in 2002.

ASUS P5A-B
K6-2 450
64mb Ram
Riva 128ZX
Soundblaster 16 PCI
6gb HDD

But I tried XP SP2 on it, and decided to i needed to upgrade 🤣.