I do admit that I adamantly stuck with WinME over the years because I
learned successfully to tame it (with the help from this ng and with the
help of folks visiting annoyances.org). Later, it gave me a freaky
satisfaction to hang on to WinME just because it still seemed to work well
(er, well enough) and boast about it. But the fact that WinME is limited to
512meg ram and problematic with AGP video, dates the OS quickly for my
needs. I'm just tired of unexpected explorer.exe failures (and a few other
quirky things that happen) when I am in the middle of something important.
I don't believe that I'm the only one who doesn't mind retiring WinME over a
Linux replacement. The main reason I am impressed with Linux (Ubuntu
specifically) is how readily it detected the other shared drives on my
network, and the fact that it utilized my PCs nVidia AGP card to the max
without problems, and.. that it happily works with the total 768meg ram on
my PC.


"Mart" wrote..
I've only tried running Ubuntu from the CD (not yet committed [installed]
it to HDD) on four different machines and it is certainly 'different'. The
jury is still out here, but was pleasantly surprised (and impressed) to
see that it recognised quite a bit of my hardware...

However, I'm not yet ready to abandon WinMe. Suspect much more testing
needs to be done first - esp. locating drivers for 'older' hardware.
Roll-on the long winter nights - OTOH, I might just get myself a life g