Windows2000 is pretty good, but ONLY if you have decent drivers. Lots of companies have a hard time writing decent audio and video capture drivers for Windows, which is where all the infamouse cracking audio problems come from. I've used three systems with Win2K, and only one of them had audio that worked properly (nForce2 chipset). SB Audigy still seems to have problems.
It was dual booting with win98 on the same machine. It was just amazing how much better BEOS ran on the same hardware as WIn98. Once again superior technology was destroyed by M$
I don't want to get off topic, here, but I was not impressed with Be, and it's little surprise to me why Be got smashed in the market. It was fast, but had no substance, the interface was insufficient, and the web browser was so bad it made me cry. Be also no longer boots since I switched my IDE cables around. Now that I can safely say I tried it, I think I'll ditch it and try Mandrake Linux.
I just installed Mandrake 9.0 Linux and man is it slow.
Well, I just tried Gentoo, and that was a bust. :-)
I just want a platform to learn how to write GUI code. I tried that under Windows, and the GUI toolkits over there are either too expensive, or simply horrible.
BeOS's future still may not have been certain even if Microsoft had played fair, business-strategy-wise
Be relied too heavily on Apple clones. When those disappeared, they adapted poorly to the PC way of doing things.
"Interface Hall of Shame - Misplaced Metaphors -"
http://www.umlchina.com/GUI/Misplaced.htm
That's nothing! If you want to even *start* understanding how horrible today's GUIs are, buy this book. The "war stories" alone are worth the book price:
GUI Bloopers, by Jeff JohnsonI'm not a big fan of the Interface Hall of Shame, either. They rarely offer any slack for artistic impression, and the fact that people can learn such quirks very quickly. Functional doesn't mean you have to be boring.
