That’s it
Kalas, I'm through. You've all heard my cry and complain about Windows. You've seen more posts in recent weeks about Linux, and its joys, well, this is it. I'm through with Windows. This amateur excuse of an Operating System. This aborted joke of DRMd'd crap code designed with money, not user experiece, or security in mind. This tribute to capitalistic sentiment exploiting end users who have no clue the atrocious code they were just sold.
Anyways, let me start over. Blizzard just released a new pacth for World of Warcraft. I installed it, and started up the game. played a while, and crash. Big ol' blue screen, not of death... just my screen went blue. I rebooted, and it gave me the beep POST code for no power. On the monitor it displayed "Please connect the power to your video card". I did nothing besides install that patch. So, I figure its WoW. I try Battlefield 2, and same thing, just immediate this time. Well... now I'm worried about my hard drive because whenever this happens it makes a really sick click as it seeks to the end of the drive in about a millisecond, then spins down. It'll boot every other time... and every time it freezes, I have to wait 5 minutes to boot. So I bought a new hard drive, and loaded Linux on it. Linux worked perfectly.... huh.
So I installed the new drive, and remember how nice it is to play WoW and BF2 at 1600x1400 with 7.1 surround sound on a 19" CRT. Gorgeous. Then I plug my Linux boot back in (the old hard drive), and BAM. Same old ----- junk. This pissed me off. I went ballistic. Not because its broken again, but because the new hard drie had the same problem, only it wouldn't freeze. There must be some sort of error checking. So Windows requires the drive to have error checking to boot? That's it. Amatuer hour is over, I'm mailing back the new drive, and I'm done with Windows. It gets a 20GB game partition on my crappy laptop and that's only because I still need to finish a website in Flash for a friend.
After this... if the game won't run under WINE, screw it, its not getting on. I've had more fun in the past 20 hours with Linux on this desktop then I ever had with Windows. It looks more gorgeous then Windows ever did. And this time 'round (With Fedorwa Core 5) it was easier to setup the hardware. No more excuses. It's boycott time. I'm not buying another system that comes with Windows preloaded. I'm not using any Microsoft products on my computers except those required for freelance work. (Which is the OS, only). I will adamently tell others about the crap that is Windows, and advise them not to buy it, as well as provide Linux free and tech support for Linux free. I'm sick of this. A major company gets away with poor code merely because it owns the market. People need to realize this is it. If we keep accepting the crap they feed us, they'll keep feeding crap. I... I have no more coherant words to add to this rant. That's it... I'm done
