I'm using WinNt at work.. and it's pretty stable for me... but since I'm building a machine at home I'm considering using Win2000 .. the only thing on my mind is ..
is it stable as WinNt.. what are the benefits....( I know you can hook up a dual monitor setup.. and all that...)... what about the drivers and other stuff... does maya or any other major 3d application have any problem with Win2000...
thanks for the help...
Windows 2000 is 17 times more reliable than Winnt. I love the flexiblity of win2k that winnt wont give me. Plus Everything you've done in NT you can do in Win2k, and more
I'd agree with that...I'm using Maya on Win2k at work and have had no problems that I can remember.
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All I got was an earful of complaints on how much slower 2k is for Maya than NT4 (in rendering, and with the Gloria II cards in them) after I tried to switch machines in the shop over. NT4 is less resource hungry, and is very reliable when you don't let your users install Real Media player, etc. on their machines 
Sean
Win2K is faster than Nt with 3d Studio Max but i've noticed no differences with Maya.
For drivers Win2k is now supported by all majors hardware companies so there is no problem of compatibility.
But i've a big problem with Win 2K and my 3d apps: sometimes the system crashes and it's impossible to do anything even CTRL-ALT-DEL, the only thing to do is to reboot; a friend of mine got this problem too. it seems to be a network problem referring to the events report.
i used win nt4 sp6 for 2 years religiously with maya 1.5, then 2, then 2.5 and then i decided to switch over to win 2k...i was shocked to find that the speeds were practically the same, maybe even faster in win 2k. plus, my machine hasn't rebooted in over two weeks and runs very stable and you can game on it too. win2k pro all the way!