I was an idiot for switching away from Linux to Windows. Here’s hoping I don’t make that mistake again.
Archive of posts tagged Windows
Leaving Linux for Windows
I used to be a heavy Linux user. Now I have moved away from Linux in a major way.
I love the idea of a free operating system supported by a massive base of free software, free support via a community, free updates, and huge amounts of freedom in general. All that open source freedom sounded nice when I started using Linux. Now it seems like Linux and its maintainers are quietly telling me “Feel free to go fuck yourself.”
After switching to Windows, I’m finally using my computer to do stuff, rather than fucking around with it trying to get stuff to work.
What Is The iSight Good For? Frustrating Trips Down Messaging and Webcam Lane
Ok so before I get going here I have not updated to 10.6 yet, after all of the problems I experienced with critical applications after the 10.4 to 10.5 switch (not on my own machine but on others, I had enough sense to make a separate partition to test 10.5 with first. Many of the [...]
Goodbye MS Office! Hello Open Source!
You don’t need Microsoft Office to write documents or presentations, nor to get email, contacts, or calendars from Exchange servers. You can use free, open source tools instead!