I'm doing a windows 2000 post, or posts maybe, soon. I just wannt to say that I never realized how much work is really done by its own community to make it run. Kernel mods, DX10 and 11, GPU driver cracks, steam is fucking running in my 2000 machine.
I had no idea there were people out there doing that for Win2K. I stuck with it a good while after XP was released and IMO was a nice clean simple OS. I eventually moved on once MS stopped support and didn't stick with XP for very long before moving on to Vista which I thought was true progress from Win2K.