From: Gary Britt 

I've got an XP Home based laptop that I use for work.  I have it pretty
well customized and it works well for me (almost as well as Win2K Pro). 
Probably just the networking of XP Home that is a bit less nice than Win2K
Pro and the inaccessibility of a few features/interfaces to possible
settings that is the biggest difference for me.  However, after effort,
research, and cruising varies places I am able to customize XP Home to my
liking and full usability.

I was just looking at some computers on a flyer from Wal-Mart and I noticed
these machines would be shipping preloaded with windows Vista Basic.  My
understanding is that Windows Vista Basic is basically XP Home.


So Here are my questions.  Since Vista Basic is basically XP Home and I
like XP Home would I be happy with Vista Basic??

A.  Is Vista Basic going to be slower and resource hoggish compared to XP
Home?  If so by how much?

B.  Does the Vista deactivation features make it impossible to trust and
therefore unusable regardless of the answers to my other questions?

C.  Any compelling feature in Vista Basic not in XP Home?

So what's your recommendation regarding Vista Basic versus XP Home?

Should I buy an OEM license for Win2K or XP Pro/Home and wipe Vista Basic
off a new computer?  I'm also considering multi-booting Linux and XP
Home/Vista Basic as part of a migration to Linux permanently because I
don't like where Microsoft wants to take me today.?

Gary

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