What OS are you running?

Originally Posted by Guest

Media Center is based on XP Pro 2002. As I said earlier it's a 'fun' OS to play with, but not as stable as XP Home or Pro. If you want to be able to use your PC like a DVR/DVD and record/watch TV/DVDs with it, MCE is the OS for you. It was built for multimedia purposes. The downside is all the neat little gadgets that come with MCE hog background resources, so you'll want a PC thats at least 2+GHz and has a 1+GB of RAM. If you want to see screenshots I can post some of what it all looks like.

It is based off of XP Pro, however MCE still lacks the ability to join an Active Directory Domain like XP Home. This is something to consider if you ever plan on joining a domain.


Anyway, I'm running XP Pro on my main desktop and my laptop. I gave up trying to use Linux as a desktop OS. I found it completely counterproductive and usually spent more time trying to get Linux to do something I needed it to do than I spend worrying about security issues with Windows XP.

Jam it back in, in the dark.