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Originally Posted by gibson042
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I am still happily running Windows 2000, because in my opinion all XP really added was some UI bloat—bundling in features that are done better and more efficiently by free/open source software anyway—at the expense of privacy and control of one's computer(s).
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If you mean visual bloat, ok, there is more there. However, in 100% of the machines I installed XP on, from 128MB 300MHz dinosaurs to 1.6GHz screamers (at the time), XP was perceived to be faster - in
every case. I didn't do any official benchmarking.
Just because XP added more stuff, it doesn't mean it slowed down because of the "bloat." Remember, Win2K was the first really new OS since NT4, released in 1996. 18 months later, MS rolled out XP, which was really Windows 2000 Pro but with many months of streamlining and optimizing, as well as adding some noob friendly features, most of which can be turned off.