Window 2000 is not so great.

[Tyler from Alaska]

I don't like Window 2000 because it is not compatible with anything.I have to download a bunch of new drivers.I can't even play games on it.Anyone having the same problems?

[noone]

Hey you have to remember that Windows 2000 isn't really aimed at the desktop market. Its built on NT and is intended for servers and such, to be stable they had to remove support for consumer devices that wouldnt be much use on a server. Windows Millenium Edition will be the successor to Windows 98 and that sounds like it will be more suited to your needs then 2000.

[SloBurn]

I got it installed on my home PC and your right W2k is crap. As said before can’t get the modem to work. But the most annoying thing is that sometimes the sound card works and sometimes it doesn’t when I boot up the PC. Have to reinstall the bloody sound driver every time. Anyone out there got this problem cause its pissing me off.

Okay, what are the good points, I suppose if you got it on your PC at work, during your lunch break you don’t have to play those tried old games Solitare,Freecell and Minesweeper you can now play Pinball. Whoa…what a game!!!! Highest score so far 5,659,950 try beating that.

[Serge]

I personally like Win2000. Since it is build on NT technology, I can take an advantage of RAM. If you use Win95, no matter how mauch RAM your computer has, the OS can use only 64MB (for Win98 - 96MB). For NT the system can use upto 1GB. I usually run many programs simultaneously, therefore I need more memory capable OS. I play games on Win2000 as well. You're right, some games don't work with Win2000 (yet). As for modem and sound drivers, this should be taken care of by companies that build these devices. Just bare in mind that Win2000 is a new OS, so it would take a while for companies to adjust.

Just my $0.02

For our new company needed a unix server to drive universe software. Decided on Linux, (cheaper option)...what a load of rubbish. First couldn't get modem to work at all even when the os could see the drivers and hardware. Second absolutely refused to print to any of our printers. Have repackaged and sent to the clown at PC authority who gave it a glowing recomendation. And even he said they couldn't get the printer options to work

Have since re-installed SCO Unix and was up and running in a morning.

Windows 2000 - am waiting on the "B" release, so that guys like Tyler can report all the bugs to the big Bill before l have to deal with them.

Try BeOS --- it rocks for the desktop. There is a rumour that they are going to allow free download of the next release. Actually don't try if you spend most of your time coding in vb.

That was my $0.02 worth Serge

Windows 2000 is more business oriented. I think that it would be best for me to wait until September and buy Windows ME.

That way you can help Tyler report the bugs before l have to deal with it

[tumblingdown]

I have win2k on one of my boxes (workstation).
The Postal demo you can download works just fine.

Are you running with a beta/pre-release candidate? you may then have drivers etc missing

[parksie]

I have Win2k and it is a hell of a lot more stable for development work than 9x...In C++, a lot of things take a lot of debugging, and it speeds it up when just your program rather than the whole OS goes flat on its face. I also play games, but I dual-boot with Win98 for that (on the same partition which is impossible according to M$ ).

[jdavison]

I've been running W2k server for about a year now(had release candidate) and haven't had a single problem with it yet. It's picked up every device with no problems and hasn't crashed on me yet. I'm suprised this even came from MS with how well its run for me :P

[parksie]

I am impressed with Win2k too, because even _I_ have only crashed it twice! Although, I did have to upgrade my BIOS to ACPI compliance, otherwise it had no IRQ steering and my ancient AWE32 (1994) tripped it up at every opportunity. It's fine now, though.

[Tyler from Alaska]

Parksie, mine keeps crashing with 98 and 2000 together. It got so annoying, I will be buying another hard drive.

[parksie]

Is that under 98, 2000, or both?

[Tyler from Alaska]

I did install both of them together. But now I have uninstall 98 because I wanted full security. I converted fat32 to ntfs on window 2000.

[parksie]

I suppose that's reasonable. I think the security features in 2k are better by far than NT4's rather pathetic attempt (our server at school was taken down by a 20-line virus knocked up in a few minutes by one of our upper sixth (for americans, that's 18 years of age, and your last school year before University), as a 'leaving present'. Once schoolkids start taking the server down I begin to worry.