Ico, I had XP on an old home tower - solid! Probably one of Mr Softie's good OSes. But I lost the disk - bye bye for that machine.
I also have Vista Home Premium on a laptop - a pig of an OS. Inefficient, flaky, lumbering, all IMO.
I like, but don't have, Apple comes from Unix components - solid! I want to get some modern hardware, and put Ubuntu on it. I am a Unix fan - you can even run it on the little PC boards like Raspberry Pi (a $35 credit-card-size computer). http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/what-is-a-raspberry-pi/
All this stuff has evolved beyond my comprehension as to what all is really under the hood, sadly...
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