I don't think I'm an inexperience user, I've been repairing & troubleshooting PC's for years and years on going, certified. When I was working as a sr. tech at Lone Star Computers' over in DFW area, I've seen over hundreds and hundreds of computers come and go, because of windows.
I've seen my fair share of Windows PC's have problems as well. I've built PC's, repaired them and been to hell and back banging my head in past years, but I feel that Windows XP is not a bad OS as all, and most certainly better than Windows 2000 and earlier.
Maybe you are one of the lucky ones, or you simply don't have much on your windows installed to cause any problems. It's hard to believe, you haven't had to restart your computer once, because it either locked up, or your Internet explorer gave an error.
I take care of my PC, I guess that makes me lucky. I have a good share of software installed on my PC - everything from DAW software/plug-ins, to Web development software I use on a daily basis and more. Running Windows XP Professional, I have had issues (didn't say I didn't), I just haven't had anything I would call "showstopping" were I scratched my head and had to spend hours figuring out what went wrong.
Also, I didn't say that XP crashes ALL THE TIME, but it does crash more then mac os does and XP doesn't crash like daily or anything, I was stating that basically the frequency of crashes that happen, say in one year, is a whole lot more then one that's running a mac os.
I didn't say that you stated that "XP crashed all the time". In fact, you made a kind of general statement that "any windows has a whole lot of bugs, and is unstable as hell". That isn't a valid statement IMO. Does that include Windows 3.1, 95, 95, 2000 and XP? Again, a general statement.
The only stable windows is windows 2000/NT. Try running a server on a windows xp machine for a whole year, and have no problems at all.
I run a server using Windows 2003 Server and I've setup servers here for my Web development business. I've used Windows 2000 Server in the past and I thought it was pretty good. It did crap out on us, but I didn't diligently perform upkeep on it.
Also, ANY fair share of problems is problems, regardless of how you look at it. It sounds like your just over looking any problems that you had with microsoft.
Yes, problems are problems - never thought or stated any different. I'm not overlooking problems and as I stated, I'm not a Microsoft lover. I said "I've certainly had my share of issues in the past with both MS OS's and MS apps."
I've seen Linux user's run their computer for a year or more, with it being on all the time, and not crash once, not lag because of 2 many app's on, not dump it's system memory & cause crashes etc.
Great. I run multiple apps each day on my Windows XP PC, and I'm not suffering from "lag" or poor performance. I'm not an average user either. I've spent time tweaking my PC, and am in front of it at least 10 or more hours a day for my business and for my music creation pleasure.
BTW just take a look at this forum, there are more problems w/ people using windows period, that can't get something to work, or is doing that, or whatever, hardware/software etc. Granted mac's are not the perfect machine either, but it's more reliable then pc's
I don't have to take a look at the forum. I've seen plenty of posts here and elsewhere regarding PC issues and IMO, it's easy to tell the posts where the users are simply impatient, inexperienced and get pissed off to the point where they probably made things a lot worse than they began with.
So anyway.....I simply posted to contradict your "any windows has a whole lot of bugs, and is unstable as hell" statement.