[Nico]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
I think it depends what you try and do with it. If all you do is use the stock hardware... play the most reliable of games and use it for documents etc. Then it's pretty stable.

However... stray from the straight and narrow even a bit and there's a deep dark pit of Microsoft Hell awaiting you.

Actually, if you start installing anything, you'll have crashes. Hell, directX can ake win98SE crash by itself.
I had win98 crash during its own instalation for some reason I never found out, on a clean, formated HD.
Once. Like that, for no reason.
I'm completly with Stryke on this one, about XP.

[Fineus]

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong - I had my share of crashes when trying to do anything with 98. But XP has been a dream to use.

[kasperl]

more of a nightmare for me, really.

every bloody setting as changed location, reliability is somewhat good, but only untill you start doing more then listen to music, and surf a bit. The OS it self has crashed on me about 5 or 6 times, once or twice with rather ugly blue screens o'death (they changed the color btw, ugly greenish blue now). and apps have crashed uncountable times.