To answer the question of why? -- because it came with the machine. Yes, I am a user and I pretty much put up with what ever is at hand, as long as it doesn't blow up.
My OS is Windows XP and saving jpegs in MS Paint suxxors big time. So, I save as a bitmap in Paint, and use PhotoStudio 2000 to convert to jpeg. I avoid crappy mottled gif approximations in MS Paint by using only the limited gif palate. Fewer colours, yes, but WYSIWYG.
The nested filesystem architecture in XP is a real pain in the ass. Not only are you saddled with folders with fruity "My Whatever" filenames that you can neither delete nor rename, but the whole structure is decided in advance for you and then hidden behind a series of shortcuts. With some programs I have to search for a hell of a long time to find the target/destination folder I was looking for! X-p indeed!
Apart from that, XP has been quite stable. I leave my computer on pretty much year round and it doesn't crash. It just slows down a lot after a month or so.
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Date: 2005-03-13 03:33 pm (UTC)My OS is Windows XP and saving jpegs in MS Paint suxxors big time. So, I save as a bitmap in Paint, and use PhotoStudio 2000 to convert to jpeg. I avoid crappy mottled gif approximations in MS Paint by using only the limited gif palate. Fewer colours, yes, but WYSIWYG.
The nested filesystem architecture in XP is a real pain in the ass. Not only are you saddled with folders with fruity "My Whatever" filenames that you can neither delete nor rename, but the whole structure is decided in advance for you and then hidden behind a series of shortcuts. With some programs I have to search for a hell of a long time to find the target/destination folder I was looking for! X-p indeed!
Apart from that, XP has been quite stable. I leave my computer on pretty much year round and it doesn't crash. It just slows down a lot after a month or so.