That's it, I'm done.

January 27th, 2008 (01:13 pm)

Tags: rabbithole, towel

current location: interlude
current song: radioparadise

I'm done with Linux. I'm done with this whole alternate BS approach to computing. I don't know why I've fought it for so long, because all it does is cause me grief, despair, and lost time.

I seriously don't know why it took me this long to give up. Every major diversion I've been sucked into has been dealing with "Linux doesn't do that" or "If you were running Windows this wouldn't be a problem."

So, fuck it. I'm ditching Linux, and going Vista as my primary desktop and satellite machine hosts. I'm replacing my MythTV host with a Windows Media Center, and I'm looking at reconfiguring boomer to be a Win2003 Server. We've already ported CONGO to Windows, all the stuff I've been doing works fine under Windows, I'm just throwing in the towel.

I encourage others who have been fighting this trend to follow my example. It doesn't make sense to have to deal with ridiculous complexities and half completed software just to read your email, when one company provides a perfectly stable, supported, commercial set of tools.

Join me as I jump down the rabbithole.

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Posted by: charismatic megafauna (

dbang)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 07:03 pm (UTC)

Heh. I was waiting for the punchline.

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Posted by: charismatic megafauna (

dbang)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 07:04 pm (UTC)

Ya know, it was the "Vista" part that gave it away. You would have had me if you had said "XP"

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Posted by: Shayde (

shayde)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 07:07 pm (UTC)

In the "He may have gone insane, but no one is THAT insane" sense? :)

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Posted by: charismatic megafauna (

dbang)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 07:44 pm (UTC)

In the "Hey may have gone insane, but that's a lot of crow to eat" sense.

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Posted by: petal, the red-headed snippet (

rdhdsnippet)

Posted at: January 28th, 2008 12:38 am (UTC)

Me too. :) I was all wide-eyed "wow, he's been pushed round the bend..." until I got to that. Even me, the non-geekiest geek out there (I couldn't grep my way out of a paper bag, sadly...) knows that Vista is the biggest PITA in the universe...

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Posted by: Spinning Vortex of Dynamic Chaos (

recalcitranttoy)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 07:16 pm (UTC)

when one company provides a perfectly stable, supported, commercial set of tools.

Please please tell me who.

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Posted by: dsrtao (

dsrtao)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 08:11 pm (UTC)

IBM. But it's going to cost you.

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Posted by: Photon-Refracting Cosmic Hare (

starphire)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 08:25 pm (UTC)

You almost had me, but choosing Vista was just over the top!

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Posted by: Fighters for longer turns in the shower (

metahacker)

Posted at: January 29th, 2008 05:53 pm (UTC)

+1.

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Posted by: barbara (

blk)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 08:42 pm (UTC)

I didn't make it past the first sentence, sorry. :)

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Posted by: seerinc (

seerinc)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC)

You know, for a moment there, i thought that either Bill gates had hijacked your blog or that you were on something stronger then me.

I actually got a little worried there.

The pod people are back! It's an invasion!

And then I realized that Ive been suckered.

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Posted by: Nabil (

nadreck)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 11:15 pm (UTC)

In other news, up is down, black is white, and pink is the new black.

I don't view this as simply jerking our chains. It's clearly a satire of all the poor saps stuck with Vista. :P

PS. Getamac *duck*

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Posted by: Terry (

rintrahroars)

Posted at: January 27th, 2008 11:47 pm (UTC)