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Edratman said:
My question, do I dump the Vista operating system and install Windows 2000 or some other Windows. I'm not willing or able to spend time to learn Linux, besides, I just play games and do e-mail and Web stuff on my home compter. I do own a Windows 2000 Professional CD.
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I advise dual booting or triple booting your operating systems. There are multiple advantages for a system with this setup.
First if one OS gets a corrupted registry, virus, corrupted file, etc... it's easy to boot into another OS finish important work/games then fix the busted OS at your convenience.
Second a multi-boot environment makes it easier to fix a busted OS.
Third one type of OS might have better performance and/or game stability for some games than another type of OS.
Fourth if a problem occurs it's easy to discover if it's a hardware problem or software problem with a multi_boot setup simply by booting into another OS. A single OS will not provide this benefit.
Fifth is some older games will not work on Vista and some games in the future may only work on Vista... especially those published by Microsoft.