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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.

dleslie 5y ago
So long as you didn't play games. 2000 meant abandoning the vast majority of your PC game library, early on.
- com2kid 5y 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. :)
  - dleslie 5y ago
    You would've needed a DOS boot disk, yes; while Win98SE was fairly great for playing DOS games, 2000 was most certainly not.
- babypuncher 5y 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.
garaetjjte 5y 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;
znpy 5y ago
Win 2000 Professional was my favorite windows ever. Fast and light as Windows 98 but more stable than Windows XP.
ulzeraj 5y 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.
squarefoot 5y 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.
yyyk 5y 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.

dleslie 5y ago

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

com2kid 5y 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. :)
- dleslie 5y ago
  You would've needed a DOS boot disk, yes; while Win98SE was fairly great for playing DOS games, 2000 was most certainly not.
babypuncher 5y 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.

garaetjjte 5y 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;

znpy 5y ago

Win 2000 Professional was my favorite windows ever. Fast and light as Windows 98 but more stable than Windows XP.

ulzeraj 5y 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.

squarefoot 5y 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.

yyyk 5y 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.