RAR File Format

Aiken · #1 December 29th, 2004, 10:26 AM

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).

Gandalf Parker · #2 December 29th, 2004, 12:06 PM

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.