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[Eagle of Fire]

Win98 SE is very good, but still buggy and you should expect it to crash at least once a day unless you never keep your computer running for a long time.

The solution to this is very often to reboot and restart.

[The Fifth Horseman]

I had W98SE running for 118 hours in a straight line, no crashes or errors, until I accidentally openend up > 20 Internet Explorer windows, thus overloading it into a lock-up.

[Danny252]

Every Windows gets buggy if you leave it on for long times. I do remember that was the case with '98, though. Then once i buggered it up so I had to restart a load of times before it worked.. I probebly crappped it up.. That sorta ended our experiments with individual users on that.
We tried again on XP, it worked until I hacked my dad's password (which was 'password', incidentally)

[omg]

if you want to play oldschool games 98 se is really good tho. im thinking of getting an old 500 mhz or somming and running 98 se on it so i can play shadow of the horned rat and b hunter. you can get software to enable it to deal with larger drives, or partition the drive up to hell and back. if you dont use it for internet it will live a lot longer but it still kinda needs to be reinstalled once evry 3 months to maintain peak performance. which can be a major annoyance sometimes. you can get software that claims to extand its peak performance life by deleting temp files and stuff, but i have had some bad experiance with these softwares.
a freind of mine has 2 harddrives and he physically swaps between his 98 drive and his xp drive as the hassel with multi boot sytems is that generally you are going to have to reinstall 98 long before you need to reinstall xp, and getting the auto recovery thing to recover your xp installation after you reinstall 98 and make it bootable can be major hassell (particurly if you have lost your admin password..)
different horses for different courses i guess. i would not recoomend using 98 se for internet tho.

[The Fifth Horseman]

I'm of the same mind as OMG, altough I disagree about reinstalling every three months. When properly maintained (regular defrags, registry cleanup, manual removal of temp files and Internet Explorer temps, occasional anti-virus scan while we're at it), it will work for a loooong time without any problems.
Now, if you are often installing/uninstalling software, this does crap up the OS. Also major changes in hardware can have a similar result.

[Limetang]

Now here comes a subject I know about!

I have been using this computer with Windows 98SE for four years now, I have only ever reinstalled once (Corrupt HDD). I am always connected to the internet, and as long as you have good Anti-Virus software running all the time, a secure browser like Mozilla, NetScape or Opera, and some good Anti-Spyware software. Windows 98SE also runs old games fine, I've never had to mess with any of the DOS settings to run an old game, and most those annoying instructions like, 'Mount your CD-ROM drive by entering mount D:\' don't affect me! Finding drivers shouldn't be too hard, I can usually just look on some major driver supplying sites, or the manufacture's own website, and my hardware will work fine. One of the major hitches with Windows 98 is newer software, big companies like Adobe and Macromedia have stopped supporting it, so for their developing software an old version will have to suffice.

If you get Windows 98, and use it, I'm sure you'll have a fun and enjoyable experience which will fulfill your needs.