So far it's pretty crazy, but I'm not sure whether it's crazy in a good or a bad way yet. I'm not so sure about these giant goofy icons either. It all seems very suspicious...

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That's crazy talk, man! Crazy talk!

XP Home or Professional?

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Professional. My review in three words: So. Many. Wizards.

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Linux: The Ultimate Service Pack for Windows.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

My Linux review in three words: Not. Enough. Wizards.

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Worst. Wizard. Ever.

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What others say about boorite!

I have XP Professional installed on a test machine here, and I am aghast at the number of built-in ways they have to send to to MSN or other Microsoft sites and services. And, of course, to use most of them you need a Passport, so they can keep track of you for the rest of your life.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Windows XP actually downloads a tiny gnome that takes up residence in your PC. When you're asleep it comes out and roots through your fridge and steals your socks.

There isn't a patch, per se. But if you leave a bunch of Oreos out on your counter it'll probably gorge itself and then it'll be too slow to run away when you open up the case and whack it with a hammer.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

I can't say I'm aghast per se, but they're definitely trying to ram you pretty hard onto their web services. I seem to have avoided all of them. Got MSN Explorer and MS Messenger uninstalled, so it's pretty much fine here. Haven't gotten anywhere near a Passport and I have no plans to.

The only things I've had issues with so far are my shitty monitor which can only do 1280x1024 at 60hz and goes batshit insane if you try anything else (you have to turn it off and on again to get it to work again: I thought Windows XP had crashed -- it was my monitor) and I haven't been able to get my Darla 24 (one of them there high-end sound cards) to install.

But other than that it's been pretty peachy. Oh, and I gave Windows Media Player a fair shot at replacing Winamp, which it so badly wants to do, but it was using 6-11% of my CPU compared to Winamp's 0-1% and all the skins for Media Player are crazy and make no sense.

If I can get my Darla to work properly, everything will be great and I will speak highly of Windows XP for a little while until it fucks me.

Oh, and make sure you pick up the XP Power Toys. I probably would have killed myself if it hadn't been for Tweak UI:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

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If it's power toys you're after, Macintosh already has them.

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"Nothing expresses the brutal grandeur of rectal polyps and anal fistulae quite like the mother-tongue of Goethe."

Well, I'll stick with a version of Windows that lets you reboot into native DOS, thanks. Windows98SE for me. Windows XP is just too packed with stupid, unneeded "features" for me. They put EVERYTHING on the start menu, put in some weird graphic interfaces, and the list goes on. It takes up gigs just to let you restore your computer... Thanks, but I'll stick with and OS that doesn't need all that. :) To me, XP is for people who don't know the meaning of "backup". Same with ME. It also tries to make up for it's inadequacies by looking cartoonish. I like my square gray boxes.

I'd just rather go with Win2K or Linux when it comes right down to it, but Win98SE hasn't given me too many problems, other than the fact that my entire computer is integrated components. Ugh.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

I reformatted my hard drive. Then I installed W98. Then I installed XP. Then I uninstalled it. Then reinstalled W98, and then XP. Then I reformatted the hard drive and installed 98. Then upgraded to 2000. Then I beat my head against the wall.

The whole reason for uninstalling XP was some wacky incompatibility with my sound card. Which oddly enough ended up happening with 2000, too. I finally ditched it and used the onboard sound on the motherboard which worked. So I prob could have stuck with XP if I hadn't been such a tool.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

And if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass a-hoppin'!

(25 points to whomever identifies the source of that quote)

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

[quote]Windows XP is just too packed with stupid, unneeded "features" for me.

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I'd just rather go with Win2K or Linux when it comes right down to it...[/quote]Windows XP is essentially Windows 2001. Built off the same core as Win2K, thus it's way more stable than 98. But I'm no Windows salesman. Do whatever makes you happy. Linux is fine and good, but it has only a tiny fraction of the applications I want to run, so it's not even a possibility.

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XP crashed twice when I was playing with it in the store. Windows 98SE has only crashed on me when I have a lot of programs running at once...

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

Maybe they were just trying to get you out of the store.

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