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[William Geschwind <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

If you don't like that "Looney Tunes" GUI in winXP, you can turn it off
very easily and make XP look pretty much like Windows 2000. It really
ain't all that bad.

- Bill

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 September 2002 21:25, Kevin Sonney wrote:
> > > NTFS (Win2k's default filesystem) does not play nice with others, and
> > > installing Win2k after Linux will likely eat your Linux partition. I
> > > think
>
> > In most cases, all it really does is eat the boot loader. You can
> > restore that with a rescue disk, although it's a pain. I usually install
> > MS first, then Linux.
>
> The proper order of installation of multiple OSes on a given computer is:
>
> From Worst to Best:
>
> 1.- DOS
> 2.- Win95
> 3.- Win98/98SE
> 4.- WinMe
> 5.- WinNT
> 6.- Win2000
> 7.- Any Linux of your choice
>
> Note: observe the ausence of "WinodwsXP" in the aforementioned list. This is
> b/c I do not count Fisher-Price products as serious productivity Operating
> Systems.
>
>
> Salut,
> Josep (glad to be back to INW)
> --
> Josep L. Guallar-Esteve
>
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