Eric Hattemer wrote:
The argument that windows crashes often is no longer a valid argument.
Win95 crashed often. Win98 crashed less often, but ate your disk more
often. However, winNT/2000/XP don't crash when configured properly.
Win2000 was the first usable system of these. My first windows 2000 system
went well over a year without a single crash. Then I upgraded my
motherboard and all periferals, and reinstalled win2000. Its been a couple
of months, and still no crashes.
....
-Eric Hattemer
Agreed. Win2k is actually a usable OS. Quite frankly, I think it's a
*good* OS. I'm not a big fan of XP, but that's simply because it seems
like it's designed to treat me like an idiot and I don't like having to
beg billy boy to use my computer again if I swap out too much hardware
(I've swapped out basically everything but the hard drive before,
usually needs a reinstall of windows, but at least it works, linux
usually does fine, jsut needs some config tweaking to load different
drivers). However, I have only once had Win2k hard crash on me (BSOD).
I loaded up a new version of my IDE drivers and the system wouldn't
even boot (I finally ended up reinstalling since I couldn't even get to
"safe mode").
All in all, Win2k is a fine OS. What it's not is a cheap OS. Linux is
a cheap OS (price wise), and it works for me.
--MonMotha
