To answer your question of why ME....plain and simple, that is MS's consumer game platform. A couple years ago the rumour was that MS was discontinuing win98 and going all NT/2000 completely, even for home users and games. Eventually they changed their minds and created 98se and now ME because NT or 2000 just doesnt work well for the avid gamer. NT is a horrible game platform (yes, many games will work but many will not), while ME will still run all games including many legacy games. Case in point, I have a laptop for work that i had win98 on for a long time and short of putting a gun to my head my company made me upgrade to their standard w2k image. The IBM Crappad laptop no longer has 3D video support and I can use it to play the games i used to play before on it (and I might add its a LOT slower). Yes, its an IBM issue with drivers but it illusrates that fact that good game-video drivers for w2k is not a priority of video card mfgrs right now. Efficient use of the OS for games sometimes requires free access to low- level functions of the OS and w2k "guards" those functions for security reasons--which we dont need at home. I still use win98se at home because I'm an avid gamer (and for my regular computer uses). My installation of 98se is extremely stable and performs very well. I dont care that it takes 2-3 minutes to boot because under normal use i only need to reboot it once every week or longer. I've always gone with the idea "dont install tons of junk on your computer". Im definately not a MS fan, but if their os is used correctly it does work to an acceptable level. I for one will not upgrade until programs *I* need to use will no longer work on 98se. If it aint broke, dont fix it! If the OS still works, dont upgrade it! At 02:05 AM 9/15/01 -0500, you wrote: >With fall around the corner, it seems like playing computer games isn't such a >bad idea :-), cooler weather, shorter days make the warm-glow of a monitor >cheerful(?) > >Anyways, totally talking about non-linux things, I started to re-eval my "game >system", which in 1 word "sucks". Thing have changed so much in 1 year my box is >almost junk. > >I bounced over to Gamespot to look at the Ultimate Game Machine (UGM) > > http://gamespot.com/gshw/stories/flat/0,12880,2712828-4,00.html > >Nothing too surprising. > >Nice to see AMD gives a good bang for the buck. >Unbelievable you can get 2 40Gb drive in RAID config for $105.99! > >But, why or why Windows ME? > >Of all the crappy OS products from MS, why choose ME? > >-- >Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 >http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 >Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >