XP is pretty good. I upgraded from 2000 professional. Luckily, you can change the display so you can have it mimic "classic" windows (ie, the gray-ish windows/taskbar of Windows 2000).
All in all, I don't have any major complaints about this OS. If you really don't like Windows, maybe you should try Linus' OS.
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