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[jazzfish]

windows 2000 and its incompatibilies with software have pissed me off for the last time. well, i hope. i'll be taking a day or three next week and replacing it with win '98.
of course, this means i'll have to dig up an older copy of office, and save all my word documents in an earlier format. and figure out what apps i'll need to redownload (zip, for one, but also ICQ). and dig up drivers for various things, including my graphics card. gah. i hate re-OSing. i do it about once a year and i still hate it.

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[jazzfish]

that was more "abandoning DOS" since all i ran under 3.1 was word-processing and internet stuff. and it was only because ZGI wouldn't run under DOS. :)

and yeah, i kind of expect that. 2K has been remarkably stable, but given a choice between something that crashes weekly and something that won't run half my software, at this point i have to go for the software.
is ME any better?

[vond.livejournal.com]

Well, I can understand the desire to run your software. Imagine how I feel now that I use MacOS, but that was self-inflicted, so I can't complain.

Some say that ME is worse than 98 (mostly people I don't really trust in IT though). I don't see how it could be any better though (since it's the same kernel), so I guess I'd say "don't go out of your way to get it"...