I feel like everyone is forgetting Windows 2000, which IMO is the best Windows that MS ever released. The main problem with it was hardware support, since peop

I feel like everyone is forgetting Windows 2000, which IMO is the best Windows that MS ever released. The main problem with it was hardware support, since people were hesitant to move away from the 95/98/ME line, and hardware manufacturers were still playing catch-up, as most didn't support NT 3/4 at the time and didn't see a need, as it was largely a server/business OS. But otherwise it was rock solid, fast, and a breath of fresh air. I did try XP here and there, but was instantly turned off by the cartoonish default theme (yes, I know you could change it). It was buggier than Win2k, and I didn't have the patience to wait around until they fixed it. I was told later on by people in the know that Service Pack 3 was the bees knees, but by then I'd moved on to Linux full-time (with some jaunts into OS X) and felt no need to come back.