Windows XP opinions?

[CptTrips]

Yawn....

[Tumor]

Originally posted by Vector
S!
If you have atleast 800MHz cpu and 256MB RAM, I'd suggest you to go for Windows 2000 Professional. Absolutely superb OS. Applications may crash, but win2k just announce that it'll be closed and everything continues as normal. I've never been happier, actually I'm the happiest...
I have 933MHz cpu with 512MB RAM and win2k is really fast. I think more memory is better than faster cpu. If you want stability, there aren't more stable OS than Win2k, period.
 

  You very obviously have never tried XP.  W2K is good, don't get me wrong but XP provides all this guy needs and much more, without the driver headaches.  I ran W2K for a long time....but for someone moving from Win98, XP is a much more headache free OS.

[Tumor]

Originally posted by Wlfgng
software firewall ???  NOT.

linux hardware firewall

as for the features.. I don't need them.

I need stability and security.

for software firewalls (home) I'd suggest Tiny Personal Firewall recommended by Gibson Research.
http://grc.com/default.htm

as for Government staying away from XP.. you're right.
I'm the IT manager for the city government here.

  The Government is ALWAYS light years behind, whats new?  Has there not been a patch for the security issue your referring to?

[SunKing]

I've been running XP for a month now and its great. AH wise its even better than the previous o/s. Before with win2k/98se I would remove my CH usb sticks from thier plugs then when I reconnected them I would have to reset my stick settings everytime, with XP all my stick settings are the same each time I remove a device, maybe thats due to the new CH manager but still XP is stable and framerates have a slight increase.

[streakeagle]

My Saitek and Voodoo are not very well supported by XP. Not too many of my games do well on it either. I tried installing some games on my friend's computer and only one installed and ran right, and even it had some bugs.

I'll wait until XP stabilizes to the level of Win98SE or until something better comes along if that's even possible given the M$ monopoly.

[AKcurly]

Originally posted by Vulcan
Good and good.

Oh and Curly, do you know what contradicting yourself is? Read these two sentences:

"Prevention of lion didn't require intervention by ANYONE. You simply used ipchains to deny access to a particular port."

Not really, Vulcan --- perhaps poorly worded  I meant that I didn't have to wait for a company to send me a patch, rather I used the existing capabilities of a existing piece of software.

Oh, and you didn't answer my question: "Why does Microsoft use BSD for HotMail rather than Win2k or XP server?"

[Mighty1]

I have been using XP pro for several months now and I've been very happy with it.

I get better FPS in almost all my games and the only lockups I've had were in AH during the senario. But that was because I just installed RW and a new Geforce 3 card.

If you are going to go with XP you have to get the Pro version.

[AKIron]

My Answer

And that's all I have to say about that.

[Mayhem]

Originally posted by rickod
mayhem just how are you running aces high under these platforms ???

I have attempted to use a win95 emulator on a solaris 7.1 machine but could not get the emulator to recognize the 3d card driver

you can't run it under those OS's to my knowledge. as I said before all MS OS's run with open ports thats why there the easiest to break into.

However if your really worried about security run a firewall like zone alarm, set up a linux box for a server/firewall/gateway and or get a linksys router (if you have a cable or DSL modem). in other words if you really want to be save hide yourself behind tougher gear.

As far as MS OSs go I recomend the one that runs every thing you want to run. win96se is the best for drivers and games. 2k pro is the most stable but has some driver issues. XP has alot of driver issues (My modem and scanner do not have drivers for them and Mustek and creative labs most likely will not produce drivers for them) so before you upgrade make sure all your hardware have XP supported drivers or XP native drivers. Also never upgrade your OS. Back every thing up and fdisk/format your hard drive and make a fresh install. you can do this with an upgrade it will ask for Old OS Disk to qualify you for the upgrade. If your going to use XP I have to recomend XP pro on NTFS partisions. Look for an OEM full version if you can (no product activation). avoid rented software (Ive already seen alot of shareware go rental like roger wilco) If people don't buy this rented crap the industry will stop pushing this crap on us.

[mrsid2]

For those who claim hackers are not interested in getting the pr0n out of my machine (why would they, I already run Morpheus ) I'd say that you're right.

They're much more interested in having my online-banking account information and my creditcard numbers..

I know a real life case where a 'friend' from irc gave a girl a small program. This program while working as a simple game installed a backdoor to this girls computer. He then intruded her box *G* and stole creditcard information (made online shopping with that) and stole some very private scanned photographs of her. They were later spreaded through his friends. Unfortunately I wasn't able to obtain any of them *cough*

So yes, I think everyone should be a little concerned with computer security.

[MadBirdCZ]

Got Pentijum 4 1,8G + 768MB RAM. Before the upgrade i was runing Win98SE. After the upgrade im runing XP only and Im pretty satisfied with performance and stability. So shortly: XP do work for me just fine.

Intel Winipeg Motherboard
P4 1,8GHz
768MB RAM
GeForce 3 Ti500
SB Live!

[DarkglamJG52]

I have XP 3 moths with only 1 system crash (after playing AH 5 hours). XP need a good PC, but it's the first good S.O. of M$soft, after the crap of Win 95, 98 is the worst of all)(, 98 SE and Me.

[Vulcan]

Funny me too, I had the ports blocked on my firewall software. So your point is? On Windows I used another app to fix it, you did the same. Doesn't negate the fact a virus like the red code virus but for linux systems was ignored by the press does it.

Unix/Linux is excellent for dedicated server hardware. NT is a bloated pig for stuff like mail and webservers where you don't need a sound card/vid card/gui etc. NT is nice if you want to run multiple apps, do other frilly stuff, or run some of the software out there thats not available on other platforms.

XP is fine, just turn off the MS-by-default-enabled crap and your away.

Hell, open MS ports are the least of your worries. A good morphed-Sub-7 will rip any MS O/S open.

Originally posted by AKcurly


Not really, Vulcan --- perhaps poorly worded  I meant that I didn't have to wait for a company to send me a patch, rather I used the existing capabilities of a existing piece of software.

Oh, and you didn't answer my question: "Why does Microsoft use BSD for HotMail rather than Win2k or XP server?"

[Vulcan]

Actually Win 2K Pro only needs a 486 with 64Mb of RAM.

And, interestingly, a 486 with 64Mb of RAM runs better with W2K than with Win 95 or 98.

XP is basically W2K "facelift" model. If you like W2K you'll like XP. Plus XP is getting all the drivers for the 'home' stuff (webcams, joysticks, capture cards, etc).

Originally posted by Vector
S!
If you have atleast 800MHz cpu and 256MB RAM, I'd suggest you to go for Windows 2000 Professional. Absolutely superb OS. Applications may crash, but win2k just announce that it'll be closed and everything continues as normal. I've never been happier, actually I'm the happiest...
I have 933MHz cpu with 512MB RAM and win2k is really fast. I think more memory is better than faster cpu. If you want stability, there aren't more stable OS than Win2k, period.

Seeker, what do you mean by drivers? I was really surprised when I first plugged my HP Deskjet 890C printer, Win2k didn't even bother to inform that new printer was installed. I thought there's something wrong and started to search the net to find drivers. Couldn't find, that got me really worried until I happened to look to printers folder; there it was, installed automatically and everything worked perfectly, hehe. Even GF2 detonator drivers for Win2k comes as fast as for other OS's. DirectX problems? Never had any. Jaus, don't listen to him, he don't know what he's talking about and more over, he don't know what he's missing...

[MadBirdCZ]

Originally posted by Vulcan

XP is basically W2K "facelift" model. If you like W2K you'll like XP. Plus XP is getting all the drivers for the 'home' stuff (webcams, joysticks, capture cards, etc).

Thats basicaly right. But I must say that Im runing XP with all those 'facelift' options turned off. Well the new XP design looks nice but only for about 1 day or so... Then It started to annoy me to the limit so I switched the look and feel back to more conservative Win2k style + classic start menu. After that not only system became even faster and even more responsive... In general I dont really like Micro$oft but must admit that XP is the first OS that is quite usable by general public (DOS was OK too but we all know that DOS was a stolen OS anyway so no credit to M$ for it)  and yes for my living I repair Apple hardware and do user support and training for Apple users in DTP, Pre-Press and DV areas so technicaly Im on the other side of the barricade