Although I have had Win2k go down a few times.
The rest of the family is also running Win2k.īoth 2k and XP are equally stable in my experience. While I run XP on my main box, I do run Win2k on other boxes here, like the laptop, file server, etc. Luna makes me seriously ill after an XP install and I turn it off as soon as possible! lol I’m running the bare minimum of services and I of course do not use those ugly themes XP ships with. Reason being I use a lot of XP “features” like the enhanced wireless connection stuff it has and it’s nice to have it automagically recognize my digital camera when I plug it in.
It’s an excellent OS! Definitely one of the most stable Microsoft has ever come out with. I think that most people who love XP came from 98 – 2k users already knew what a decent os was/is. It’s a bit lighter on resources, does what it’s told, and just plain doesn’t annoy me. Clicks get faster results in 2k.ĢK is modern, very fast, very stable, lean and professional. This is very obvious when you boot into 2k after a week or more in XP. 2K has much better desktop responsiveness. I benchmarked XP and 2k on the same system and didn’t get a conclusive result either way except that 2k consistently won in PC mark by 1% (10 tests). On the performance side XP boots faster but that’s it as far as I can tell. Obviously, XP has built in skins and other UI enhancements but I just found myself turning these off as the computer responded better that way. The quality control on XP has been poor – I sometimes wonder if they even use their own software in there at MS. I found what a lot of other have: too many “features” to turn off in XP (search puppy, avi preview, zip folders, cd burning, common tasks…) no real disadvantage in using 2k for anything what-so-ever lots of noticeable, annoying bugs in XP.īugs have been my biggest disappointment: settings that won’t stay set random window focus errors CD Burner incompatibility (even while it worked with 2k on the same machine!) stupidly intrusive autoplay that can’t remember how you set it up, and many other little annoyances mainly to do with it forgetting your settings. The XP / 2K comparison has been one I have given a lot of though for a fair while now, as I have dual booted them on my Athlon 2600 machine for over 18 months.
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