Bog Roll ::

Today I used Microsoft Windows XP for the first time in anger. I've used it once or twice before, but not for more than 5 minutes at a time. I've used a wide range of Microsoft's Windows versions in the past, from 2.x, through to 2000, so I'm not a Windows newbie. At home I run Debian/KDE and at work Windows 2K. In comparison I must say that XP is ugly, awkward and very sluggish, when compared with both 2K and KDE.

I'll turn off more of the annoying eye-candy and get cygwin and PuTTY installed, making the box almost usable. While 2K was a minor GUI step up over NT4, so far I think that XP is very much a retrograde step.

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