I have been using Linux since '96 and love it. Just recently I bought Win2k, with some extra cash, for my wife to have something to use at home that she can understand (She hates Linux. But she loves;O) fetchmail). Well I got it home and started the install. It was brainless. No problems. So far so good. (Oh, I guess you wonder about my home system. Dual Celeron 366 (OC>450) 160MB;8.4GBhd;Voodoo 3 3000;BP6 Motherboard) After the install I was suprised to find that a stripped down version of IIS comes with it. (FTP,SMTP,e.t.c) I then configured it for my home network (PMFirewall/MASQ/PORTFW/e.t.c running on RH6.2 and various other Linux workstations). I got it to work with Samba, at this point I am hating myself for having pleasant feelings for M$. I grab some games I run on my work laptop (WIN98) and installed them thinking that this would BSOD it, worked just fine? I have had the system running for the past 5 days know problems, yet. Wife has been check her e-mail (manually;O)), surfing internet, and various other tasks just fine. I took my Linux Q3A and used the hack from Loki's website and got it to run on WIN2K just fine. The graphics were ten times better than in Linux on the same machine (Linux needs better drivers). I hate to say it guys I am very impressed, so far.
Bottomline: WIN2K kinda OK. Hate the price.
Still love Linux and all of it's beautiful free complexities. Linux is still a better tool by a million miles.
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I have been using Linux since '96 and love it. Just recently I bought Win2k, with some extra cash, for my wife to have something to use at home that she can understand (She hates Linux. But she loves ;O) fetchmail). Well I got it home and started the install. It was brainless. No problems. So far so good. (Oh, I guess you wonder about my home system. Dual Celeron 366 (OC>450) 160MB;8.4GBhd;Voodoo 3 3000;BP6 Motherboard) After the install I was suprised to find that a stripped down version of IIS comes with it. (FTP,SMTP,e.t.c) I then configured it for my home network (PMFirewall/MASQ/PORTFW/e.t.c running on RH6.2 and various other Linux workstations). I got it to work with Samba, at this point I am hating myself for having pleasant feelings for M$. I grab some games I run on my work laptop (WIN98) and installed them thinking that this would BSOD it, worked just fine? I have had the system running for the past 5 days know problems, yet. Wife has been check her e-mail (manually ;O)), surfing internet, and various other tasks just fine. I took my Linux Q3A and used the hack from Loki's website and got it to run on WIN2K just fine. The graphics were ten times better than in Linux on the same machine (Linux needs better drivers). I hate to say it guys I am very impressed, so far.
Bottomline: WIN2K kinda OK. Hate the price.
Still love Linux and all of it's beautiful free complexities. Linux is still a better tool by a million miles.
--mayneMC