Scott Hill wrote:

> "Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
> news:3BBD04F9.FABBF4A5@geocities.com...
> > For home use, Win2K is usually not a good solution.
>
>     How so ?

Well, the big one, games, are finally starting to work OK under 2K. But
still, a few have issues. Used to be that nothing would work well. But
it's starting to come up.

One big issue is the resources required. Hard-drive space, CPU power,
memory... 2K is a huge hog of all of these. These hit the average home
user _exactly_ where it hurts most: in the wallet.

Then there are some of the admin features. Nice for a corporate
environment, but not so easy for average users.

And also there's a general trend in software. Generally, 'professional'
software works better on NT/2K, whereas consumer software is more tuned
for Win9x. Over time it is improving also, but still the 'os
friendliness' of consumer apps is different (how NT does things
differently... the file systems, the registry details...). Things like
software development houses having only limited testing/QA resources and
focusing mainly on consumer os versions, etc., come into play.

Since I've avoided NT at home all along (I even have a few unused
licenses for it laying around), I get a lot of the current information
from my co-workers. They are fairly compentent when it comes computers,
tech, admin, etc. And many of them multi-boot with 2K & Linux, 2K & 9x,
etc.

Of course, some of them have also suffered enough pain to have now
uninstalled 2K completely.

--
Jon A. Cruz
http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html

Post a reply to this message