Really? (I Forgot Windows Sucked This Bad)
I haven’t used Windows as a primary desktop for about 2 years now. I use Ubuntu for my home system and laptop, and CentOS on my file/web server. I keep Windows on a spare hard-drive for 2 primary reasons..
1. My son loves to play Guitar Hero III (I know, I know, “Frets on Fire”, but he’s particular)
2. I can watch HDTV with my TV tuner in Vista (and this won’t be a problem with Kernel 2.26)
Today I decided to boot into Vista so I could watch some TV. That was over an hour ago. First, Vista wanted to update. I had rearranged my hard drive layout a couple weeks ago so it decided to re-detect all my hard drives as well. Once the update process –that took 30 minutes — finished, I had to reboot, install pre-shutdown updates then I had to wait for post-boot “update configuration” to finish. Once I got to the desktop it decided that my sound should only come out of my USB headphones which was fine, but annoying.
I have become a full-fledged Windows hater. It’s bloated, can’t detect the simplest of hardware without a driver disk and the constant reboots for software/driver updates is stuck in the 1990′s. If it wouldn’t devastate my son to lose Windows I would format the spare HD and use it to hold something useful — like maybe a oepnSUSE partition?
I am a Linux crusader trying to convert the masses. If you somehow stumbled across this and you are thinking about switching to Linux but the command line scares you, start off with some of the more user friendly distros like Ubuntu, Fedora Core, or openSUSE. Use it for one month. I promise you can do EVERYTHING in Linux that you can do in Windows (and you can usually do it 10x faster not to mention you don’t have to spend a penny on software)
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