Well, AFAICR at the time (on the same hardware) BeOS ran circles around any Windows OS, including Windows 98 (and besides both NT 4.00 and 2000), particularly with graphics and web/browser.
And (again on same hardware) it was if not faster, much more pleasant to the eye than most Linux distros.
Surely it needed less memory and processor power than the competitors or however felt on limited resources very "snappy".
And (again on same hardware) it was if not faster, much more pleasant to the eye than most Linux distros.
Surely it needed less memory and processor power than the competitors or however felt on limited resources very "snappy".