On Sunday 17 February 2002 09:33, Christopher John Shaker wrote:
I recently upgraded my dual boot workstation (SuSE Linux 7.3 professional and Windows) from Win2K to WinXP Home, and WinXP is even faster than Win2K. It boots faster. It's display drivers are very fast. It's network stack seems faster than Win2K's.
The hardware is a 1.4 Ghz Athlon/Duron, 768 MB DDR PCI 2100 RAM, Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI, Quantum Atlas 10K 18WLS Ultra/160 Wide SCSI drive, and NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 Pro. This machine is on a fast, land based network (768 kbit/sec, bidirectional).
Even Microsoft doesn't consider XP Home an upgrade from 2K, since it drops several features of 2K. You can't make a blanket statement about XP being faster, particularly since it is optimized for IDE drives and not for SCSI. I don't know anyone who has tested an XP system for SCSI disk writes in blocks > 256KB without finding an Achilles' heel of XP. I'll grant you that XP may be easier to install on a system like yours, where 2K will be lacking many required drivers, or may fail to install even the ones which it has on the CD.