Lol, so this old discussion has reared it's head once again...
Can't be bothered to search for it now, but I seem to recall several heated discussions about how 98(se) was much better than Me, and neither of them coming close to XP, which again couldn't hold a candle to W2k etc...
Personally I rank MS' OS' the following way:
- Win2k
- Win95 RC3 (or was that RC2)
- Win98SE
- XP
- Win98
- Win95 OSR2
- Win95
- WinME
Guess some of you might wonder why I gave W95 such a high rank, but that's release candidate 3 (or 2 I can't remember) before MS decided to split it up into W95 and Plus! and remove some of the functionality...
I used it for several months, and it only crashed a couple of times...
Anyways, my point is that the argument is moot as we all have different tastes... Some prefer the 9x core, some 2k, others like the (imo) bloated W2k/NT based OS called XP
, and others again actually like ME
... This mostly isn't based on actual performance on several machines, but how the OS works/worked on their machine...
And even if you've got two identical machines (same hw) it doesn't mean that it'll perform the same...
I once saw two ME machines side by side. One worked like a charm, and the other allmost wouldn't boot...
And they were built with the "same" parts... (Dunno about hw revisions though)
So it all comes down to how the OS performs on your machine when you are using the apps that you use...
If you're happy with the OS you're using, and think it's the best, then good for you. But please allow others to have opinions which differs.
A bit more back to the topic.
I think it's sad that MS is retiring W98 (though I think SE might have a couple of months more before it's gone), as it is/was a good OS, well suited for many home users. Now with MS retiring it, there won't be any new drivers & such (though that is up to the manufacturers) which again means that many will have to upgrade their entire machines if they want to upgrade anything (hw or sw).
Well, that's my .02$ on the matters