[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[indigo]

AndrewB wrote:
> indigo wrote:
>> User wrote:
>>> XP Pro Software is still available from many "legal" sources. Google
>>> for XP Pro Software, there are pages of hits including Amazon for
>>> instance.
>>
>> But the task of taking a hopefully fully performing Vista platform,
>> wiping the disk, and installing XP and praying everything works
>> seems to be a lot of work and risk to me (unavailable drivers might
>> kill the process entirely). Moving from Win98se to Win2000 wasn't
>> too bad because they were similar enough OS's that I didn't run into
>> too many problems (plus I had D-LO around to help, and old .social
>> contributor).
>
> Win98 and Win2000 (or any Windows NT derivative) aren't even close to
> being similar in terms of architecture of the kernel, multi-tasking,
> and a host of other details.
>

Really? What about the diff between Win2000 and XP or Vista? All my
drives were converted to NFTS while I did it the 98 -2k update. The
driver thing really gives me the shivers, I have enough driver problems
as it is ;-)