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someone who had to do a ton of tweaking to move windows 98 to windows 2000

These are totally different OS kernals, aren't they? Isn't Win 2000 the first one to run without DOS while Win 98 is completely DOS based? Win 98 is FAT32 & Win 2000 is NTFS. Moving from 98 to 2000 in NOT an upgrade ... it's a complete install. Pretty bad comparison, really. Nice stretch, but that's like me saying I moved from RedHat to Suse and it was tuff.

At least you were able to move from 98 to 2000. Try that with 2 different versions of Linux.

Actually the default FS for all windows operating system is FAT, Notice when you install a fresh copy of 2K, XP, or even 2k3 (server) after the instll it then converts the filesystem to NTFS.

Point is even windows service packs have broken applications. We are on an nt4 domain which I used to use the domain management tools right off the DC, when I went to SP they no longer worked. I also had to wait a good long while before third party apps like cygwin worked on XPsp2.

US I run three different versions of Linux on the same box! I have changed from one to the other all the time, its really not all that hard.