This is not a “that OS is better than the other OS” sort of deal - This is more of what the average person thinks is worthy of downloading. I leave that to you how to use that information. I think it reflects on how people feel about the OS’s, but again you might feel differently about the results.

Anybody care to comment on some of the points raised so far? =)

Of course people dont need to download vista, its installed on all the new computers already, and old ones generally cant manage it… (same goes for different versions of vista, you wouldnt download ultimate if you bought a crappy computer that came with basic because it wouldnt run)

Linux sucks, it doesnt work with hardware, it doesnt run software, it is entirely pointless… there is NOTHING linux has that you cant get on a MAC or PC…

I mentioned the searches I did were just the most basic, to get the first torrent on the list. For instance, if you search for Ubuntu, there are two - the desktop one, and the full one (I presume with the server version included etc.)

I think what I’m trying to say is that I tried to make it as if the average Joe was doing a search for an OS, found it on isohunt, and just hit the download torrent button on the first thing he/she found.

But I agree about 98. If it supported today’s games/apps/CPUs/memory configs I would still use it today.

Whats more interesting is the older versions of the OS’s, shows some people are either still using it - gasp, or people are poking around with it for fun. Would be interesting to reinstall 98 again, i used to know it off by heart, now i cannot remember what it even looks like.