W2k vs XP

[Mrmagoo]

My computer has a E4500 Core 2 duo, 2g of ddr2 ram, asrock motherboard capable of outdoing my cpu on bus speeds, and a medium quality graphics card.

I found some W2k drivers and was wondering what would be faster/more stable/ etc..
I dont like fancy operating systems. Most of my machines are now linux because of this. This is my last windows box, which i like to have for compatibiltity. Would W2k be faster because of less hardware demands and simplicity?

 

[johnb35]

You will most likely have some driver issues with W2000. XP is much better than 2000. Some security programs have no support for 2000 anymore.

 

[Mrmagoo]

But what makes it *better*. I dont care about features or anything. Just simplicity, speed and minimum uses of resources. Every XP box ive run has all the features disabled. I'm not against the Idea of going XP, Im just curious about why

 

[massahwahl]

In my opinion I thought 2000 was the best operating system microsoft ever made. Its very secure, worked flawlessly and used very little resources. You would be hard pressed these days however to use it with very many modern hardware and softwares at least not to their full potential.

 

[massahwahl]

My observation is that W2K is far more stable and fault tolerant. It pretty much works like a dream. I heard a lot of bad things so far about XP, wont load software it doesn't like (has to be MS certified), it crashes and locks up badly and worst of all you give MS control over your PC.

What the hell are you talking about?

 

[Vampiric Rouge]

As we announced in 2008, support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on July 13, 2010. Support for Windows 2000 will end on the same date.

I believe this still holds true. If so you will not be able to keep windows 2000 updated and secure. If you don't care about that install them both and stress test them both, See who gets better marks on the tests.