Re: RAR File Format
 

Win2k is nowhere near XP in terms of bloat... There was a ton of garbage piled on top of Win2k to make WinXP, with very little in the way of actual improvement of the OS. The only way you could praise XP is if you skipped Win2k, really... Win2k will probably be the Last "decent" OS from Microsoft. It is all downhill from here (not that it was ever at any particularly high point). The only games I have ever had any trouble running in Win2k are old DOS games that require "features" (read: bugs) of Win9x that are not present in the WinNT line. A partition of a few hundred megabytes with Win98 on it works well for such games.

Re: RAR File Format
 

My system always runs better with the Win2k image then the XP image. If you have some knowledge of 2k its easy to lock and strip stupid stuff. XP is just a nightmare and I hate the fact that I have a hassle with XP evertime I do a system upgrade. Its stupid for someone like me who constantly builds and upgrades their system to have to mess with that. In addition my system runs slower with XP then 2k and my emulators dont work as well.

Rasorow

(Why then do I run XP currently? because I have some programs I spent ALOT of time to trick into running on XP that will not run in Win2k..... due to those Win9x "bugs")

(note statement about running slower is based off the presence of performance issues in games on WinXP that do not exist in Win2k. statement about emulators is related to emulators that work in 2k not working in XP or ROMs for emulators that work in 2k not working in XP)

Re: RAR File Format
 

I use w2k too. Compared to XP it's a clean and simple OS. And it's much more controllable that XP. It almost free of crappy 16bit legacy of 9x line (unlike XP, which include legacy code for better compatibility). And it definetely will be my Last MS OS, because there's no 64bit XP yet (and it's rumored that MS decided to skip this edition for the sake of Longhorn).

Re: RAR File Format
 

Everything has its pros and cons. The same discussion of toys vs bare-efficiency comes up with unix vs linux. Im not about to get too fanatical on either side of the line. I just go ahead and keep one of each. If one is a bare-bones workhorse secure server arrangment, and the other is a dont-sweat-it load lots of toys and pretty stuff desktop, then I dont have to bang my head on trying to get one to act like the other. Those were Sparc/Solaris and Win98se, now a bare bones GNU Linux and a WinXP desktop. Im debating a BSD or MAC for server, and a fully GUI Linux for desktop. I have access to W2K servers as telecommute admin work and I dont think I will go that route any time soon.

But in any case its all pro and con. The only way to decide which is better is to decide which advantages/disadvantages you prefer.

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2k isn't a 9x... its one of the NTs