Is Windows XP an Experiance?

[sdtPikachu]

"Obviously the new windows is going to be bugged"

Well, why the hell should it be? Why can't they release an OS once the major bugs and security issues have been found out? I'll tell you why: because that kind of testing they consider too expensive to do properly, so they let muggins on the street find their faults for them.

"previous windows had dos running UNDER windows"

Win2K/NT 5 doesn't. XP to me is just NT 5 with a new GUI on top and privacy killing features as well as a load of other useless folderol I'm never going to want to use, but hey I have to install it anyway. Great.

"as for the interface, it can easily be changed back to classic mode"

Still doesn't alter the fact that I hate the windows GUI as a whole, and it has absolutely zero configurability. GNOME is a wonderful thing.

"it handles ram amazingly"

So does Win2K and Linux. One isn't free but doesn't have product activation, one is totally free. I can't really see the point of chaning to XP really.

"it's a lot more secure than the security systems in te other windows"

Which isn't saying much. Windows is probably the most notoriously insecure OS in existence.

"And unstable? Hell no!!! it's never crashed ONCE in my entire history of using it for different purposes, school, gaming, 8 non-stop leaving the computer on to download a extremely high resoulution version of Final Fantasy:The Spirits within.
And i doubt it will crash anytime soon"

Wow, anyone would think it was SPECIAL that you can have an OS that crashes only once a week. Sheesh.

I've kept Win2K running on this PC for over a week non-stop and it didn't crash. So far, Linux has only been on for 24 hours at a time (not tried any mammoth sessions yet), but even after TRYING to crash it, I failed.

Thing is, you've probably not actually done anything to make Windows break a sweat anyway. Leaving a computer on running a single program (i.e. downloading) isn't exactly very taxing, is it?

XP is just the latest incarnation in a whole series of buggy, incomplete, insecure operating systems. True, XP is better than the rest, but should it really have taken so long to get this far when other OS's have been managing it for years?