RagingBITCH
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- Sep 27, 2003
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Originally posted by: Supercharged
You're missing the point. And XP is supposed to be a consumer OS. I have plenty of hard drive space but why should I have 2 programs on my computer that do the same thing. Windows should not come with all this crap. I want a basic OS that's stable and supports everything I throw at it. So far the only OS I have found that closely matches that is Win2k.Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: Supercharged
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Originally posted by: Supercharged
slowest? that would have to be my laptop. 1.3GHz celeron. However it came w/ XP. If I ever needed to reinstall I'd put 2k on it.
Why would you downgrade to 2K?
Because I HATE winxp. I installed it on my main rig because 2k doesn't support hyperthreading properly and I just upgraded to a HT cpu. I've been misserable since install XP. Some things are obviously slower. I can't stand it's bloatedness, it's new windows update, new WMP, worthless image viewer, cd burner crap, windows movie maker, windows messenger, activation etc. And of course SP2 adds a bunch of new nagging crap which I have to disable! :| I'm used to my much more powerful apps like Nero and ACDSee. All the crap XP comes with is a complete waste to me. I'll install my 3rd party software dispite M$'s attempt to shove their crap down my throat. Too bad I can't uninstall half of it. I'm looking forward to this XP to crap out on my like my previous XP installs have in the past. It looks like SP2 might take a little longer though. Seems stable dispite it's slowness. But once something happens to cause me to reinstall I'm going back to 2k.
Bloated? Buy a bigger hard drive. They're cheap.
Slower? Maybe at some things.
Don't like the image viewer? Install a different one.
Don't like the burner software? Install Nero.
Don't like the nagging? Set things up the first time and never see it again.
Or, you could install a consumer friendly OS for less than half the price.
I like how your own statement contradicts itself. XP is supposed to be a consumer os, but Windows should not come with all this crap? XP is meant for the avg user, not some wannabe hardcore computer user who wants a basic OS. I don't see what your deal is with XP anyway. In the past 3 weeks I've imaged, formatted, and/or upgraded well over 40 computers to XP. The only thing XP runs slower on are these friggin POS Powerspec Celeron 2.4's that for some reason we bought. It destroys 2K in every application we use otherwise - Autocad 2004, IDDS, Project/Visio, etc. (Used by engineers for Verizon) The advancements XP has over 2K far outweigh whatever you claim XP sucks at. Same goes with 2K3S over 2KS. (We're running 2K3S on a couple of lower level P3's as IIS and FTP sites. I think all of our DNS/WINS/DHCP/file servers are all Poweredge's, the ones mentioned beforehand are workstations converted to servers since we were tight on budget)