[PatrioticAmerican]

"I got sick of the system reboots, etc., from Windows XP"

If you were rebooting so often, you obviously were screwing around. I work with literally thoudsands of XP machines, and NONE have required a reboot outside of an OS or certain driver upgrades.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I have had 2k pro on this box for almost three years; I have had ONE blue screen and ONE manual reboot. And I have tons of apps running. The problem with windows is user error.

[Illbay]

Sorry, pal, but you're just WRONG.

I have (or had) three XP machines here at home. Of the three, two are by "name" manufacturers--HP and Sony--that came with XP preloaded. The HP machine works flawlessly. The Sony and my own home-built computer (using high-quality, standard components, btw, like ECS motherboard, AMD processor, VIA chipset, ATI video card, Crucial memory, etc.) crash constantly. It's the home-built machine that I just converted to Red Hat.

In fact, I just now had to reboot the Sony because I (the horror!) dared to bring up my Fax program--WinFax by Symantec--and the whole system froze.

MS is sh*t, there's no two ways about it. Okay, they're only 2/3rds sh*t; the HP machine doesn't have many problems.

[TechJunkYard]

I've had issues myself with 2K Pro.. occasionally the durn blue button I clicked on from the start menu stays on the screen... on top of all the other windows... until I shut down and reboot... on two separate machines... one of my own and one provided by my employer.

Obviously the NT stuff is much more stable than the DOS-based Windows, but still has issues. I find it interesting that the NBMers never have any problems with XP and 2K while many other people do... and they're dismissed as driver problems or users having been "screwing around". I figure (1) you're very fault-tolerant, (2) you're lying, or (3) you know something the rest of us don't.

Which is it?