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No love for Windows 2000? NT kernel with the classic Windows interface. It ran pretty well on Windows 98 machines and was extremely stable.

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dleslie|4 years ago

So long as you didn't play games. 2000 meant abandoning the vast majority of your PC game library, early on.

com2kid|4 years ago

You could hack around that and get DirectX working, I was doing all my gaming on Windows 2000 back in the day.

Though I think I may have had a proper dos boot disk for some games, hard to remember, it was quite awhile back. :)

babypuncher|4 years ago

I ran Windows 2000 in high school and never had trouble running any of my games. That said, I didn't have any DOS games in my library, which I'm guessing is what you are referring to.

ulzeraj|4 years ago

I tried once. Kinda liked it but it was heavy on my built-for-98-se machine and lacked some things a teenager wanted in a computer - like DirectX.

But I've tried anyway. Then I got owned so hard by Nimda that it is still the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of Windows 2000.

znpy|4 years ago

Win 2000 Professional was my favorite windows ever.

Fast and light as Windows 98 but more stable than Windows XP.

yyyk|4 years ago

2000 and original XP are almost identical (IIRC one is NT 5.0 and the other is NT 5.1). IMHO, The reason hackers loved 2000 and not XP is because of the toy-like XP theme - which shows hackers can be shallow too.

squarefoot|4 years ago

Win2K, good memories. Used it for Delphi and some C++ Builder development between 2000 and 2001; pretty solid, probably more than XP (at least until XPSP2) but needed some more horsepower to use it properly.

garaetjjte|4 years ago

>It ran pretty well on Windows 98 machines

I don't think so, for example requirements for RAM:

Windows 98: 16 megabytes (MB) of memory (24 MB recommended)

Windows 2000: 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended minimum;