Why do users insist?

[lovemonster.livejournal.com]

What part of "we do not support W95/W98" did you not understand and why would you think I would help you install our product on a platform we do not support?

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[byh.livejournal.com]

Mostly because "it is the best operating system ever" and "I do not care what but stop trying to feed me that bloated WinXP because everything I need works perfectly on Win98".

[jon787.livejournal.com]

2k is the best version of windows

[byh.livejournal.com]

No, because it won't run smoothly on my Pentium 100 MHz machine with 16 megabytes of RAM. Plus it doesn't support Warcraft 2!


And if seriously - I find Windows XP much easier to deploy and support. Just because you have to install less drivers and additional software. It is slightly slower on older machines but its features usually compensate for it. IMHO.

[jecook]

You can speed it up marginally, by tossing more memory in ( but you knew that already, I'll bet), and by turning off all Teh Shiny that XP turns on by default.

In fact, after doing that it'll look strangely like 2K, only with a few extra features under the hood... :)

[byh.livejournal.com]

In my opinion WinXP never reaches the same speed that Win2K does when it comes to older machines though. So I suppose if one has an older PC at home and is able to handle it then Win2K may be the better choice.

Although these extra features make me want WinXP on every computer at work because we have such a zoo there :)

[jecook]

Not to start a holy war or anything, but I used 9x all the way up to two years ago.

and I plan on taking one of the pold machines we are tossing that has enough horsepower to run the older games I have that just won't run on 2000/XP, and running them on it.

For the platform and what it was designed for, windows 98 SE was about the best version of that kernal ever. ME sucked donkey balls.

Frankly, I like XP better, if only because of the driver rollback feature and some of the other neat sys admin type things it has.

[mawz.livejournal.com]

I dropped 9x as soon as possible, simply for security and reliability issues. For truly old hardware, I run NT if at all possible.

[byh.livejournal.com]

Completely agree with you. Perhaps that's why so many people are sticking to it even now.

There are two things in Windows 98 that really annoy me - very crashable filesystem and poor USB support. Otherwise I liked it a lot. Especially its size. You couild just archive Windows directory and keep it somewhere. In case of any problems just reboot to DOS and unzip it back - almost any system failure is fixed! Even better than System Restore for XP.


But I do not understand people who like dancing around and casting spells to make Win98 to work with modern hardware.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

I still dual-boot 98/XP due to some old games I have (Carmageddon 2, for one) that I like to revisit on occasion. It had an active Internet connection to patch the OS fully, then it got disabled.

My experience with Windows ME was not all that bad. It was pretty limited though. I had a Dell laptop that came with ME preinstalled; it never gave me any grief. Of course, I only used it to take notes in college and play Worms: World Party when that got boring...

[docjeff.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's because they heard about all the viruses, trojans, worms and whatnot on that evil Ecks Pee thingie. :-)

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Apparently the same part of "We don't support Exchange 5.5 and neither does MS" that our customers don't understand.

[spacebird.livejournal.com]

God, I wish we didn't have to support 98. With half of our products using USB, whenever I hear the luser say "I'm using Windows 98" I usually hit the mute button and groan loudly.