FetusZero / Member

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Changing OS...

...in the near future. Yep. I'm sick of Microsoft Windows. Man is Windows not stable for sh*t. I'm sick of having at least once every week the usual "explorer has to close to prevent whatever" and then having the usual "do you want to send an error report to Microsoft" .;clicks yes;. "unable to send error report shutdown of the application is needed" and whatever else Windows has up it's sleeve.

I was talking about this with a friend of mine and we came up with how Microsoft works Windows. I bet they have a schedule like:

10:20am December 13th start error #777463537
10:30am December 13th start error #983498733
start unability to send error report

I don't say this to simply hate on Microsoft, but over the numerous years that I've had computers, Microsoft Windows has never been stable. XP is at the best Microsoft will ever do for Windows, and Vista plain s*cks and thinking that whenever I'll get a new PC or laptop it'll most likely come with Vista, I rather change OS all in all. Despite XP being their summum in my opinion, it still isn't stable for sh*t. It reminds me of when I first bought my laptop, I started it and it had that auto-install OS and all that stuff, all went well, I reboot it. When it reloaded, FIRST TIME, NEW LAPTOP: I had to force reboot it because Windows had already froze on me.

On a Vista PC, same thing almost, I did an update on my parent's computer since they don't know anything about computers and I know that updates will often have security fixes: The PC never restarted therefore I had to f*ck the update and force reboot it again. It's funny how Vista s*cks though. Everybody knows how MSN became WLM (Windows Live Messenger), right? And that WLM was MEANT to work with Vista, but that yet it doesn't work on Vista unless you downgrade WLM and install patches? Maybe Microsoft worked this out in some updates, but from the start that was pretty stupid. How much of a pain is it to install anything on Vista anyway. For an OS, making beautiful translucid windows that uses a hell lot of CPU power, from the beginning isn't really smart (you can change that option though).

All in all, I hate how unstable Windows can be and how unsecure it is although they try to make us believe otherwise and I hate how Vista controls you instead of you controlling Vista and most of all I hate that Internet Explorer can't be deleted 100% from Windows. Thing is, out of other good OS, I simply can't stand MAC. So my choice ends on Linux.

I know most people have bad thoughts about Linux since like forever. How it is complicated to install and use and what not. Linux changed alot over the years, which is what people don't see. Linux isn't hard to install anymore and is far more stable than Windows. What I like about Linux: You can make anything you want work with it, despite what people think. The compatiblity rate is wide. There are many, but MANY different distributions of Linux, therefore you don't have to install a bunch of bullsh*t on your computer that you don't want (like Windows automatically does) since you simply have to get the distribution which has what suits your needs and nothing more. Most of these distributions are open source, therefore allows for alot of improvement over time.

The only pain with Linux: Actually finding the right distribution. There are so many of them that it's hard to actually find the one that suits your needs. I have found mine though, but all I need now is money to buy it. I really need to get a job. Oh yeah, the other pain for my part: Reinstalling all that I had on her. For example my 4000 music songs (I rip all of my CDs onto my comp since I use it as a library and as my stereo). Now that took me a hell lot of time to do and I still ain't done with it. But hey, that's what it is if you want a more stable OS than Windows which franctly isn't hard to find anyway. Plus, Linux doesn't have Internet Explore, but rather comes by default with FireFox and ThunderBird as a mail client which I currently use.

Let me know what you think, although my decision is made and that I'll change to my distribution to Linux whenever I can afford it, I'd still like to know what you people think. So far there's only one person who says she hates Linux, but I was like "how can you say you hate it when you tried it several years ago and tried only one distribution which you didn't even choose?" there's too many to base your judgement on only one distribution, specially if you had a distribution that wasn't suited for your needs.