Windows 2000 after a facelift. The Professional variant is a decent, robust OS with very few nagging points (provided that you disable all of the extraneous garbage and
useless services). The
Home Edition variant, however, is crippleware aimed solely at the computer illiterate soccor mom who couldn'
t tell a mouse from her studded leather dildo; contrary to popular belief, it is crash-prone and becomes very unstable when running more than 2 applications at once. It's "
Luna" theme, by the way, is a laughable ripoff of
Apple's "Aqua" design theme that is nowhere near being as elegant and intuitive.
I don't like Macs very much, but I'd take OSX's svelt brushed
metal and blue orb design over Windows XP's clunky blue-and-red coloring book design ANY day.
Windows XP Professional - A worthy successor of Windows 2000
Windows XP
Home Edition - Dumbed-down bullshit OS that puts the Win2K kernel to shame. Is only marginally more stable than Windows ME, and just as worthless.