Which OS

[wesley313]

I'm looking for an os that is stable and still lets me play most of the popular games on the market like counter strike. I want to go with linux, but I'm not sure if those windows emulators can run those intensive games. If not linux, should I go with win2k? Also, if there are emulators that can handle those games, what are they called?

[smokin1]

For gaming..go Win98SE
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[DemonKnight]

I'd have to agree. (although win2k I have been able to install every game I've got, one gave me trouble. Vampire the masquerade. Had to use a different setup.inf file. and it seems to close the program if I try to start my own mulitplayer game.) I'm going to be dualing win2k and win98 on my next setup for this reason.

[MrBaseball]

win 98se

[Dudster]

My machine is mainly for games. I'm running Win98SE and it's been perfectly stable for me.

[krusty the klown]

I'd have thought those emulators / virtual machines are not up to running games at all.

I run virtual windoze 98 in win2K using http://www.vmware.com (so I can run an old FORTRAN compiler). It's acceptable performance (i.e. useable). The virtual machine 'feels' about like a P75 or thereabouts, which is fine for a FORTRAN compiler and Sigma Plot / Excel, but would be totally useless for a decent modern game.