Kind of knew I was going to say this...

[evilhippo]

Dear Internets,

Windows Vista is annoying. I am switching to Linux. (Maybe I should've gotten an Intel Mac... then I could teach it to boot into three operating systems! Two of which would be useless to me!). That is all.

Love,
evilhippo

P.S. I lied, that's not all. My new computer is here! And it's pretty and happy and omg I can't work it because Vista is evil and counter-intuitve (and I think I've already broken it... oops. Oh wait, it just takes like, five minutes to load... nevermind. Vista, you are stupid. Pretty, but stupid. Which is not how computers are meant to be!) Oh, and Vista? Your inability to update the antivirus is terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. I hope that someday you don't take eleventy billion years to load. Also, when I tell you to turn off, you turn off. Don't just pretend and then go to the login screen as soon as I turn you back on. Don't hide the option to restart where I can't find it on the first try!

In more positive news, even though the new Office is kind of cluttered and weird looking, it actually kind of looks like it might actually have some useful features.

I'm going to have to get used to the new keyboard, though. It's keys aren't as deep as mine are. Le sigh. Oh well. I'll live.

Yay, new computer!! (Yay, breaking in (mostly just breaking) my new computer!)

(Goshdarnit Vista let me remap the keys!)

P.P.S. I think I broke Ubuntu, too....

P.P.P.S. Oh, and Vista? Really, even if you think it's polite, you really don't need to ask me if it was me that changed your firewall settings, and if I meant to do it. I'm sure you felt me click. Of course it was me. Also, you seriously don't need to explain what a screen saver is. (It is cool and super-nice of you, though, to keep your system files on a separate partition from the user files. At least, it looks like that's what you've done. Thank you. I was going to do that anyway.)

P.P.P.P.S. Ha! I win! Finally got my display drivers working. Yaaaaay Ubuntu! I am never using Vista again!

Comments

[lostforeigner.livejournal.com]

Why the hell did you install Vista? DDDDDDDDD:

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

It came with Vista, I had no choice! (I've half a mind to uninstall it completely, but if I do that, I can't make it dual-boot, and there's something deliciously geeky about it.)

[lisiche.livejournal.com]

Did you get Vista AIDS? I know that's the version I want.

I have the same policy for new OSes that I have for new video game consoles (sans Nintendo): wait at least a year. I canNOT for the life of me get used to any OS except Windows (go fig), so... I'm hoping they work things out or I'm pretty much screwed when I eventually get another computer. XD

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I swear it needs a setting for "I know what I'm doing, stfu!" If it had that, it'd actually be kind of functional. As it is... it's a terrifying, terrifying piece of software.

[linen.livejournal.com]

I'm having to learn how to use it because I have to. ; ;

I really like my decision to "upgrade" to a Mac these days. It's intuitive in a way that's actually intuitive. Not to say I don't have my "wtf" moments, but overall it's a pleasurable experience.

But still, cheers for Ubuntu~

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Eww. That makes every learning curve 50 times worse.

Yeah... one thing I'll say for Macs (which I would've have said before this year because I didn't know the OS myself) is that they're good at what they do. Vista is kind of Window's attempt to pull off OSX, only with Window's ability to customize all the fiddly bits you don't need to customize, so you just end up with this annoying maze of questions you don't quite understand the meaning of, and options that are dumbed-down to the point that it's impossible to understand what they're really changing. I've had a few moments where I've thought that maybe, as a casual user, I wouldn't mind Vista, but then I remember that there are security pop-ups every three seconds, and that'd annoy anyone.

(It still throws me off that Macs don't have drive letters, though.)

Yaaay, Ubuntu ftw!

[solitaryjane.livejournal.com]

See? This is why I got a Mac.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Macs are expensive and I can't afford them. And if I have to learn a new OS, I want it to be nerdy. (Also, if I got a Mac, it would've taken me an extra week to get it working because I would've spent my time trying to get it to boot between Windows, OSX, and Linux.)