XP Pro .......S...L...O...W...!

[Shamus_]

swift240 wrote:
Why Win2000 and not XP?  because I see Win2000 as a lot less troublesome.

Some people may or not say that Linux is a pile of crap, but believe me its come a long way and its very good.

Mike.

I agree with you re: Win2k. I still use it on most of my machines for its simplicity, stability and usability. It's a great OS. I use XP on a couple out of necessity and it ain't great. Still, it's better than Vista which lasted about an hour on a cheap laptop I bought a few weeks ago. It's truly horrible.

Re: Linux - I've played with heaps of distros over the years  just for the hell of it. Killed most of them doing things I still don't understand. Great fun.  :-)  I'd love to find one that's simple enough to use as a cheap fileserver I'm going to build. Do you think Unbuntu could be easily set up  with JBOD/RAID compatibilty for use with SMB (PeeCees/XBox)for a linux newbie? Opinions? Anyone?

[Shamus_]

daverobev wrote:
Ok, in no particular order:

WindowsXP is pretty much Windows200 v 1.1. Those saying W2k is simpler... I'd say it's some nice tweaks, but you can set it all back to "classic" should you wish.

W2k is simpler. It's also faster and easier (IMO) to maintain. The classic view thingy doesn't even enter into it. Sure, there's some bells and whistles missing like XP themes and DHT for torrents if you're into that type of thing  but I prefer my machines to run lean rather than adorned with pretty pictures anyway. W2k has a smaller footprint and therefore leaner on system resources than XP  ever was. W2k flies on a gig of RAM. Each to their own....

I find Mac OS 10 more sluggish than Windows XP. I have used 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and now have 10.4 on a MacBook.

Never used a Mac. Ever. :-)

"Nobody buys rubbish products" good god did you ever use windows 98?!? Now THAT was awful.

WinME was worse. I re-installed it so often I could remember the key for it. A truly horrible OS.

Linux is complicated, flaky and so disjointed in some things - truly not ready for normal users. Hello, changing screen resolutions when you plug in a new monitor? Awful! Sure, if you know what you're looking for. Dependency hell, one-thing-breaks=another. OS X is unix done right (except compiled for size, not speed, and too much UI over responsiveness - but then I want a computer to respond as I click, not after a small delay).

Agreed. Linux is better than it used to be but the dependencies gave me a bad case of the craps. Particularly when the one dependency an app needed would be either corrupt or unavailable and the whole thing would die a slow, lingering death. I really liked Lindows (Linspire?) alot. Very easy to set up SMB shares with it and installed in under 10 minutes. A great OS.