Comment by 800xl

There was a very short window of time around 2000 when BeOS was viable as a main OS, at least for a high school kid like me. I think I even got rid of Windows entirely and just had a single BeOS partition for a while. It was sooo fast on my little eMachines computer, which was such a breath of fresh air after having hand me down 386s and such that struggled to boot Windows. The only real trouble I remember was the network stack was kind of buggy and had to be restarted every now and then and I think printing was pretty non-existant.