[rescue] Oh yeah ...

[Ethan O'Toole]

> Yup.  I'm being freshly reminded how painful XP is, with the bling that
> you can't disable and assorted management settings obfuscated and tucked
> away in hard-to-find places.  Tracking down the interface settings and
> setting for performance-over-shiny helps.  But there's still way too
> much bloat and bling and unnecessary space-wastage in the interface.

There are ways to trim all of that out.

> And then I remember that Vista is WORSE.  WTF was Microsoft thinking?

Linux has followed the same path. You can trim out the extra stuff in both 
OSes.

Check out XP Embedded for some odd stuff.

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