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Spoon poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

Not in our group.

Server: We run a Win 2000 server with a small domain for the trailer in which we work. We also have access to the domain for the rest of the complex and to the domain that our company maintains.

Desktop:

We run a mix of Win 2000 Pro and XP Pro desktops.

Performance:

Acceptable most of the time. Poor far too often:

1. XP itself is fairly slow to load applications, even MS ones.

2. One some machines (the XP ones), access to the file-shares and other local resources "goes away". We have found no recourse but to reboot. Apparently XP can't even properly cache its access tokens.

3. Install the wrong power toy or update, and you're hit with some oddities:

a. MS Word XP no longer presents a menu entry for "Update Fields" when you select the whole document. It used to. The workaround is to select a true field, update it, then select the whole document, and do Edit-Redo.

b. Sometimes the file dialog will go nuts, and it will take 20 seconds to respond to each click on a subdirectory. Yeah, that's a real productivity tool there. The workaround is to avoid the dialog and do drag-and-drop, if it applies.

4. Keep an MS application open too long, and it eventually craps out, yielding a long (a minute or more) hourglbutt display, or, worse, document corruption that you don't discover until later. The workaround is to exit the application periodically, so it can clean up its crap.

5. Outlook takes forever to navigate to our home base and download information from Exchange. My home ISP setup is far faster.

So, no, I would not at all argue that Windows is better on the desktop or for a small server. The only advantage Windows has is the market. And I despise how that market was obtained and maintained.

Windows doesn't have this database. It has vendors who are now drinking the Microsoft Kool-Aid.

See the list above.

MS Office (2000, in my case), runs great on wine as installed via Crossover Office.

You are mistaken. Windows is well known to be crappy. Yet it rules. Why? Because Bill Gates has managed to insure that essentially all desktop-laptop systems that ship are either shipped with a Windows license, or a Windows license is paid for that piece of hardware.

Yeah, you really need that AD at home. Sure.

They continue to work on this, my friend.

You're confusing "user-friendly" with "Windows-friendly".

Actually, Linux is doing very well, especially compared to all the previous compebreastors to Windows PCs. (Remember them? If not, then you might want to peruse the court dockets.)

-- Reinvent yourself!