Windows 3.11 All The Way!
The Best Version Of Windows

For those of you who have never messed with a Win3.X series machine before, let me tell you its a heck of alot different than its replacements. For one, the way the entire system was built was different. This was a true DOS machine, meaning you could actually close Windows and go back to a DOS prompt for all of those low level file system tasks. Also, Windows at the time was more of a friendly user interface for DOS. I still miss the days of writing assembly code using the DOS "debug" feature. I still have a Compaq Prolinea 4/50 under my bed with a 500 MB hard drive and 18 MB of RAM running Windows 3.11 For Workgroups. Still, after 15 years, it still works fine. It was an office computer before I got it, so its cool to look at all of the spreadsheets and documents and the like and get a feel for what office life must have been like in 1993 when the PC was just picking up good steam.

But I do have to say that I'm partial to 98SE. I like it because its simple, and it works (most of the time). Also, its somewhat nostalgic to use it, it was one of the last operating systems Windows made before they decided that the operating system was more intelligent than the user and they started with the whole "Here, let me, the operating system, screw this up for you and not tell you anything about what I did wrong." type attitude.

-reply by Rale

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Well for me. I love win 98.. But compatibility sucks as the new years roll on by. As for vista this is the worst thing ever. It eats up too much PC processing power poorly managed rescources and a totally new gui to learn. Which makes it alittle fustrating to learn as compared to all past windows version after 3.11.

HONESTLY EVEN WITH MY LOVE FOR WIN 98 AND BEING A WIN XP pro USER. I WILL STILL HAVE TO SAY THE BEST IS THE LATEST. EVEN WITH CRASHES AND WHAT NOT, IF WE GET A GOOD PC WHICH ALLOWS THE OS TO RUN WELL WE WILL HAVE NO
Are E G are E T S
A new OS will not be invented to be worse off then the previous version. Hardcore programmers and PC users love win 98 because of the "don't want to learn new code" syndrome. Compatibility is hell being either a problem of the software or the OS in itself.
Old java programmers don't wanna move on to higher gen languages because of new codes and what ever, and later OS don't support the old programming languages due to security reasons. I really like this thread btw :D

DarkScorpion/// Hard Core Gamer of Trinidad & Tobago
Spend your money on a good PC and upgrade hardware and software every day... Best way to stay up to date :D "which is friggin impossible"

Go for a 900GHz processor quad core of course PeNtIuM 20
900THz or ram "lol" 4DDDRAM
Multi liked AGP 99999999 series

-reply by Marcus