Comment by steve1977
7 hours ago
> Many of my Windows memories from those days were of running Spybot Search and Destroy for friends and family.
I remember the regular cleaning sessions I had to do for my mother. Which stopped once I got her a Mac mini.
Windows XP was the point when I decided to move my mom to Mac first, then to Linux. She adapted really quickly to Ubuntu.
I decided the same, but for myself.
I liked Windows 2000.
XP was a bloated mess to me (in 2001) and I switched to Linux, and started upgrading a discarded PowerMac I'd been given until it was usefully able to run the shiny new Mac OS X.
10.0, 10.1, 10.2 started to get stable and quick enough to be useful for some tasks, 10.3 sealed the deal and became my full-time desktop.