Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Feb 2006 19:50 UTC, submitted by Nalle
"I've been looking at the 'My desktop OS'-articles, and found that I'll have to be the one writing one for Windows XP. To be honest, Windowx XP is very close to being usable on the desktop. I say very close, because it's not so out of the box. There is a few issues, however and many of them arises when you need to reinstall. You do need to reinstall Windows from time to time - it's just a fact of life!"
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RE: Some reinstall, others don't
by helf on Sat 18th Feb 2006 15:30
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Member since:2005-07-06
I've had the same windows 2k install going for around 4 years now. And thats even with two motherboard swaps! 
you are right, the reinstall mentality is for the lazy ones.
My grandad has a 386 he refuses to stop using and it has had the same windows 3.1 installation running on it since he bought the thing in ~92... i did a few minor upgrades to the computer and added a few things to windows about a year ago and it is still chugging along (upped the ram to 8mb instead of 4 and added calmira and a svga trident isa card...)
And the whole "windows slows down" is just as much the users fault as the OSes.
Edited 2006-02-18 15:40
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2005-09-04
I'm in the "never reinstall" category and this includes Windows 3.x that almost everyone would reinstall on a regular basis. This is really more a personal style/decision than a need. A co-worker in the 3.x era would always reinstall -- it is noteable that he is much less techie than myself. The reinstall mindset is a lazy one and stops the learning process.
My systems never slow down over time. I would love to see a benchmark that proves that this happens. Note that I don't let crap (like Real or QuickTime) run in the background. I bet that people complaining of slowdowns have too little RAM and gradually do more and more with their systems to the point where they get major disk thrashing.
The single main issue I have with XP is the onerous copy protection. Change components, call Microsoft. Hard drive crashes, fork out money to Microsoft strictly because they are greedy expletives. I think that since most people are running XP legally, Microsoft should back off on these offensive copy protection tactics -- it gains them very very little extra cash and makes me hate their greedy little guts.
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