Wow, how off topic can we get? Sure, the Linux kernel itself may be stable, but I've tried various GUIs on it and they have been non-intuitive and buggy.
Hm, don't know when and what you have seen, but it changes often. Try KDE - it's pretty good now. More to say OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird (sample programs I used under Windows) are the same for Linux and Windows, so it's hard to tell that Windows versions are better. Yes, some programs or menus are different. But once you start use Linux it is much more friendy, esp. in CLI (which I find very useful, because it's fast and scriptable).
XP (if you don't load a bunch of garbage on it) is a solid platform.
Well, OS with no programs is nothing. And it's getting more and more dificult to get free/cheap, stable, good programs with no extra stuff for Windows (imagine Windows without firewall and/or antivirus and/or antispy), that are not developed for Linux too. That's why I've switched to Linux.
But if somebody prefers Windows, than I recommend Win 2k, because it's pretty stable. If it has to be XP, then I recommend it with SP2.
Personally, I don't belive that SP2 can be the cause of MBR corruption. I'd rather suspect memory leaks or something like that in mprime 2.46, that causes crash in some cases - my usually stable Debian becomes less stable when I launch mprime (not tested mprime 2.38 yet) and Xfree sometimes hangs up (95% CPU usage, and no response) while I launch applications. I sugest switching back to 2.38 and torture test for couple of hours...
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