Favorite OS for PC?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Raistline said:

All these posts and comments and everyone is forgetting one of the best OS's that has ever been, Windows 2000 (64-bit)! It was the first consumer OS based off the NT file system and it was the first Consumer OS to support the x64 architecture. It made Windows 95,98,98SE, XP, and XP SP1 look like garbage in comparison. XP SP2 changed all that though.

A lot of people forget how terrible XP was before SP2 came out. Most people say that SP1 was XP's saving grace but even though it made huge improvements to XP, SP1 still had massive hardware incompatibilities and still struggled with USB hot-swap.

My favorite Pre-XP SP2 OS was Windows 2000 (64-bit). It was such an amazon OS for it's time.

It's my second favourite Windows after Win 7. But even Win 2000 was a mess before SP3! And they never fixed a small bug of file preview that sometimes flagged files as in use and prevented users from modifying or deleting them, although there were two workarounds, either disabling file preview at least in folders with many files, or using Sysinternal tools to close handles improperly left open. Of the three NT-based Windows I used, XP was the worst for me. I had to replace Win 2000 with it as my new HW wasn't fully supported, but XP was heavier and had problems with some old games and their DRMs.