OT: Windows is too expensive

[Renegade 13]

Personally, I don't understand what everyone's problem with XP is. I've never had any major difficulties with it that weren't my own fault for messing around with stuff I didn't understand at the time No viruses, trojans, etc, no instability, nothing. Been a smooth ride for me ever since my first computer with Win 95 on it.

*(Now will probably have a rash of problems, after making the above statement!)*

[geoschmo]

Renegade 13 said:
Personally, I don't understand what everyone's problem with XP is. I've never had any major difficulties with it that weren't my own fault for messing around with stuff I didn't understand at the time

XP has been quiet stable and decent for me as well. My only complaint is, as the thread title says, it's too expensive.

[capnq]

Renegade 13 said: Personally, I don't understand what everyone's problem with XP is.

From what I've read about them, XP and Vista both include a number of "features" and deliberate design decisions which IMO are Bad Ideas. (Mostly involving security and DRM issues, which I'd rather not get into a lengthy discussion of.)

I'm hoping to buy a used system in the near future, which is probably going to have XP already installed. I don't intend to connect it to the net until I've done some research on what settings I have to change to ameliorate the security problems.