They are basically the same operating system. What experience prompts your statement?

 

For everyone who is finding XP to be stable, what (if any) Service Pack are you running?

I have found many of my issues occurred after installing SP1.

 

I have had no problems with XP Pro or 2000 Pro on my home machines. At work, we're holding steady with Win2000 Pro. Machines are older and we just have no need to upgrade.

I do think that XP probably feels a bit slower than 2000. If your machine is new enough and you have plenty of RAM, you might not care (I don't).

 

I find all of this really odd. I just upgraded my 4 year old Athalon 500 w/256 RAM from Win98 SE to XP Pro and find it to run much faster and smoother, using less resources initially for the OS than Win98 was.

I'd be willing to entertain that my Win98 had alot of baggage, but I did keep it pretty well in tune and the XP is an upgrade installation, not fresh, so it still carries some of that baggage as well.

I'm pretty pleased. I just added XP Pro as a second OS on my laptop along with Win2k Pro, so I'll see over time which I find to work better on the same hardware.

 

don't care for it. better than others Me IF you have the power.

 

ME - hahaha

no really, at first xp was really annoying with all of the bubbly interface and all, but I got used to it after a while. This computer doesn't have SP1 installed, but the new one does. Both seem to work equally well. This computer has now been running for 30 days, 22 hours, 5 minutes with no problems. As with xp slowing it down, I haven't noticed anything much, not even on full load projects. (This computer is an AMD AthlonXP 1700+ with 376MB of memory and just an ATI Rage 128 Pro video card. The new computer is an AMD AthlonXP 2800+ with 1GB of PC3200 RAM...no slowdowns at all noticed on either machine.) I have run this one on an 802.11B wireless network and it configured easily with no hassles. The only major annoyance that I can see most people having is running Novell with XP. I know some places that keep win2000 just to keep their computers with novell.

But if you don't fit into that category...go for it! It might take a little getting used to, but you'll be fine!

 

I've found xp to be very stable if you load the operating system onto a seperate partition while saving everything else to another. secondly, turn off automatic updates.