WTF would a Eunuchs geke know about it? Maybe he wanted to be able to swap PC cards w/o restarting? Maybe he wanted APM? Maybe he wanted the NTFM encryption? Maybe he had some other valid reason?
Why are the e-luddites so damned insecure that they've got to shove their... noses in where they don't belong, taunting anyone who asks for help or advice, just like the buggywhip boys who yelled "Get a horse!" whenever they saw a car with the hood up?
Guess what? You'll still see cars with the hoods up, but good f'n luck finding any of those buggywhip megacorps still in business. He who laughs last, etc. And it ain't gonna be the guys hyping the worn out two-gen-obsolete telco hacked-together OS. The proof of that is their interminable chest-beating and braying and bleating about how they're gonna mop up the floor with the "windoze" users, blah blah blah. Hint, boyz -- if you're gonna win, shut yer damn pieholes and do it instead of talking about it over and over and over. The more "y'all" rave on, the more you come off like a pack of sandlot outcasts who -- with shiner, ripped shirts, and scuffed pants, tearfully growl "you'll be sorry" from the sidelines at the laughing kids who just finished cleaning yer collective clocks.
"You will eventually come to Linux."
Oh, please. And you Eunuchs Geex have the chutzpah to noise-out your "you will be assimilated" crap WRT BG? UFB. If we "come to linux", it'll be to put that homebrew POS out of its misery.
Nope. My decision to go to W2K was actually 2 reasons: first (and most pressing) I needed an OS that could support a firewire card and virtually no such card runs on NT. Second, NT was showing it's age as of late and I've been planning an upgrade for over a year. However, I was waiting until a pressing issue such as number 1 came up.
You will eventually come to Linux.
You've shown your mindreading skills to be far below par. I'll take that comment for what's it worth.