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POLL: What Windows version does everyone use?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 3:14 am
by BurninMan921
Just curious...and bored :)

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 3:17 am
by BurninMan921
Oh yeah: Me, Windows 2000+Mandrake Linux....plus Lycoris Linux, and I'm installing XP now... I'll post a SS after it's done installing :)

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 3:58 am
by BurninMan921
My current Win2K/XP setup:

http://www.geocities.com/kevinford2003/shot.jpg

I'd have Lycoris running too, but with only 512MG of RAM, I can't do it...plus Lycoris and VMWare don't work to well together. Oh well...

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 4:07 am
by dodecahedron
what's that in the picture?
a Win2K window and a WinXP window in VMWare under Linux running?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 4:24 am
by BurninMan921
VMWare running XP under Windows 2000. Mandrake is installed in a dual-boot setup. Lycoris is under VMWare, but doesn't work too well (the fonts are garbled)...

VMWare is nice for testing out different OS's...tried Windows 2003 Server for a bit (Microsoft has a 180-day trail version). Nice, but very, very anal about security...you have to give it a reason to shut the system down. NOT a home OS...

Oh, and guess what boots faster: Windows 2000 or Windows XP under VMWare? I'll give you a clue: it's not my real os :o

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 4:54 am
by dodecahedron
your'e running VMWare in Win2K, and in VMWare you're running XP???
strange, i thought it was only for inter-OS: run Linux in Win/run Win in Linux.
it had never occured to me to run Win in Win using VMWare!

my guess is that winXP boots faster.
is there some catch here?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 5:14 am
by aviationwiz
The photo is down, anywhere else I can look at it?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 8:59 am
by CignaXI
Use iownjoo.com to host your images, it's free.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 11:26 am
by David
Currently dule booting with 98se and win2000.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 12:15 pm
by BurninMan921
Thanks CignaXI, I'll try them...

And yeah, XP boots faster...go figure.
It has it's advantages; for example, the old DOS game Duke Nukem 3D is very choppy under Win2K (seems to be a keyboard input issue with Win2K+DOS programs), but running Win98 w/VMWare and running Duke under 98 it plays great.

EDIT:
Ok, alt. location for the screen shot:
http://www.iownjoo.com/freeimghost/Kevi ... 3/shot.jpg

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 12:28 pm
by tazdevl
Primary is XP, have a partition with 2000 and also one with 2003 to play around with for the 2K3 MCSE exams.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 1:01 pm
by CignaXI
You'r welcome!.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 5:27 pm
by MonteLDS
XP Pro for home.

But I work with 2000 Advance Server if not XP

PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2003 2:24 pm
by manni
Win2k Pro on workstation, Debian GNU/Linux on server.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 1:35 am
by Phoenix '97
Still running Win98SE. :/

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:52 am
by Bhairav
Dual booting with Windows 98SE and Windows XP.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 12:35 pm
by CDRecorder
I selected WinXP, but I'm using
Win95 (2 PCs, not used much)
Win98 (first edition, 2 PCs)
WinXP (two PCs)
Mandrake Linux 9.1 dual-booting on one of the XP PCs (need to re-install due to HDD re-partitioning)

PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:58 pm
by VEFF
XP Pro on both my PCs.
It is truly an extemely stable OS, despite the fact that it is
feature-packed.

People may love to hate Gates or MS, but they put out very good software (I like the fact that they all share very similar interfaces - I have seen some software by other companies that is clearly designed by developers who clearly weren't coordinated in their design of various screens and menu buttons etc. within the SAME app), including their OS.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:50 pm
by aviationwiz
I hate M$, not Gates though. Word crashed when I was prining a paper that I hadn't saved yet, had to start from scratch again.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:15 pm
by CDRecorder
I had that happen with MS publisher once. Overall, I like MS software, though (the consistent interface is a big advantage).

PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:42 pm
by TheWizard
Save early, save often. :) BTW, I thought Word auto-saves every so often? It does for me.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:46 pm
by VEFF
TheWizard wrote:Save early, save often. :) BTW, I thought Word auto-saves every so often? It does for me.


Yes, there is an option to autosave every X minutes.
It is enabled by default (set to 10 minutes).

PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:50 pm
by TheWizard
Bingo

PostPosted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:11 pm
by CDRecorder
Yes, I certainly learned that lesson. I now enable the autosave option.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:38 am
by Kennyshin
Microsoft Windows XP Professional on most P4 desktops

Microsoft Windows XP Home on three Tualatin/P4 notebooks

Microsoft Windows 2003 on one P4 notebook

Linux Redhat 9 on two P-III servers

I tried Longhorn several times but had not much fun with its various beta versions.