Did I Ever Say That I Hate Windows?

Because if I haven't, then I should have.

About 600 times.

And if I did, then add about another 300 times onto there.

I hate windows. Why? Because no matter what I try to do, Windows doesn't want me to, and since it's the operating system, it wants to think that it's boss, and tries to keep me from doing it. Then it crashes, corrupts my entire hard drive, and then can't recover itself even though it claims it can.

This is what I've been dealing with for the past few days, and quite honestly, I'm sick of it. I'm sick of all of it. I'm completely tired of paying for shit that doesn't do what it's supposed to do just so I can run programs that I need to in real life.

WHY THE FUCK DON'T PEOPLE USE LINUX!?!?

It's so easy, so reliable, so easy to maintain, so fun to use, and it actually does what it's supposed to do.

Let me explain my recent dilemma to elaborate.

I just bought a laptop (as most of you know). It was $2,600. Basically, it's the shit. In fact, it is literally the fastest laptop on the market right now. I really really like it. It was extremely well made, does everything it's supposed to; Hell, I even like the way the keys feel.

But there was one problem with it: It came with Vista.

Now at first that didn't seem like much of a problem. I figured since Windows is the most popular Operating System on the market (for some reason that completely escapes everyone but God apparently), it would at least have some resemblance of ease of use.

Wow, was I wrong. Let me start off with the file structure: It's hell. Trying to navigate through the Windows file system (for someone who's accustomed to a sensible filesystem, such as I) is like trying to find your way from the middle of the amazon rainforest to Cairo, Egypt without a map.

Or a boat.

And however much I wish I was exaggerating, I'm really not. It's terrible. It took me 3 days to finally figure out how to add folders to my favourites, and I don't think I'll ever be able to understand why they don't let me move any further backwards than my libraries/home folder when they're both just folders located in another folder. I really don't even understand the function of the "libraries" folder either. And why the hell did they get rid of "My Documents," but kept My Music, My Pictures, My Videos, etc. and then throw an empty My Documents into the home folder?

Even saying that is confusing.

So I was running it for a while. I tried installing Oblivion. It took me 6 hours. Then I tried running Oblivion. Half of it worked. Then every attempt I made at changing something failed. So FINALLY I just decided to say, "Fuck this fuckin' shit, this is fuckin' bullshit fuckin' fuck FUCK!!!" and upgraded to Windows 7.

Windows 7 was a relief. No longer did I feel like the operating system was trying to impede my every step, and although there were a lot of the whole "look & feel" things I absolutely hated at first (I don't like Aero. I just don't.) I'm starting to grow numb (accustomed? I don't know. I still don't like it, but it's not bothering me every time I look at it anymore.)

However, it's still far from what I would call stable or well programmed, but I thought I could deal with that for the sake of compatibility.

I was wrong.

In the middle of cut-pasting, the computer crashed. Not only did I loose the entire Marcy Playground discography, but after trying to delete the remainder, I was slapped in the face by the "data is corrupt, run chkdisk. No, you can't just delete it stupid, run chkdisk!!"

"Um... Okay? I'll amuse you computer. I'll run chkdisk. (How the fuck do you even say that? Did they purposely spell that wrong?)"

"Haha! You fell for my trap! Now I will crash 6 times trying to run chkdisk, and you'll be forced to completely reinstall Windows!!!"

"Wow... You're an ass."

And that's how my conversation with my computer went. And yes, I did have to completely reinstall (that's why I'm typing this on fedora.) Fortunately, I was able to recover all of my files through Linux.

I still don't know what happened to my computer. I don't know why it crashed. All that I know is that I'm totally pissed because I'm going to have to spend another hour recustomizing it.

*Sigh.* Wow. Thanks to everyone who made it through this post. I'm not going to pdf it, I just needed to vent. Thanks for making it through though.