not like dis microsoft, plz

Posted by NeutralReiddHotel on Dec. 14, 2015, 8:25 p.m.

I've been wanting to write a post about a Windows 10 image I saw a few days ago. It talks about how exactly Windows 10 is breaking all kinds of rules you probably expect from your computer to not violate, but goes ahead and violates them anyway. I've been using Ubuntu Linux for a few years now, and because of one quirk (all videos have a flicker i never figured out how to fix) I decided to try out Windows 10. It was the best. Simplest. Thing. Ever. I loved it. All my videos are playing flawlessly with Windows 10, and with such a huge porn collection such as mine, this is important for me to fully enjoy the videos I've spent countless hours collecting.

Now, this isn't a bragging post about my collection. No, this is a post about how one little quirk in Linux made me switch back to Microsoft and made me commit the biggest mistake of my adult life:

Now, with all these privacy violations, I have to ask: who cares, really? I mean, anybody who has heard about windows 10 surely has heard about it's privacy violations.. so why didn't they switch? I mean, I heard them too.

Except, I didn't care until I read the specifics. Once I did, I said, "fuck this" and switched back to Linux in a heartbeat. No joke, I got rid of all my Windows everything MINUTES after I read this pic, not because the shit I do is so valuable or important and I don't want the FBI to know what I'm up to, but because I BOUGHT THIS GODDAMN COMPUTER and I should be able to do whatever the flying aerodymanic fuck I please with it. But nooooooooooo, Microsoft HAD to display the stick it has up it's asshole to the WHOLE world and violate all kinds of fucking rules any person with common sense would not agree to.

If Microsoft was really playing fair, they would be putting up ALL these things they're doing behind our back IN THE INSTALL SCREEN. That way you know right away the kinds of privacy invasion you're about to experience. But that's not what happens. That's not what happens at all, and because of that, I say, "fuck you, Microsoft" because I realize that Windows 10 is no longer the only operating system out there. Maybe years ago, when I was a teenager and didn't know what the word syntax meant, would I have been fooled into thinking I was stuck with this shitty OS. I didn't know my way around Linux terminology to save my life.

But now, I'm going to carry this goddamn piece of gold nugget life-saving gem that I call Linux Mint in my pocket (as a USB to install it), for ALL people that are sick of Windows 10 to enjoy.

you're looking at the face of your hero right now

Linux isn't perfect, but I do prefer it vs. what the crap-master Windows has become. I was fooled by it's features that mimic workspaces and the immediate search bar I received from pressing the Windows button… I love being able to press one key and start typing up the name of the program that I need to use, like "calc" would bring up a calculator in a second. When I saw that this wasn't exclusive to Ubuntu and that Windows 10 had it, I HAD to give it a try. So my disappointment is a whole lot bigger BECAUSE I expected something so simple and Microsoft, somehow, found a way to fuck that up.

LinuxMasterRace here. Please share your stories as how you decided to throw your copy of Windows 10 in the trash here, I will reply and congratulate you. And if you're using a Mac you are not part of this story.

Comments

Omega_Squid 9 years ago

I love linux, but sometimes I miss good old executables and not really having to learn. ('MURICA) I've been on OSX happily as my primary OS for almost 7 years now, with a bit of 7/XP and Mint/Ubuntu LTS 14 as secondaries.

MINT IS THE BEST! I also like elementary OS if you prefer an OSX kinda style

EDIT: Are you using cinnamon as the interface?

NeutralReiddHotel 9 years ago

i would say i did the majority of learning from Windows. do you know how hard it is to learn to remove viruses as a clueless 15 year old? i wasn't a smart kid so it took me forever to figure it out.

there's nothing i'll really miss about windows really, since most programs have a port/linux alternative, and usually most Linux distributions have had the features that Windows just implemented for years.

i mean it, that flickering video thing was the only reason i switched, and goddamn did the nightly windows updates suck donkey dick

NeutralReiddHotel 9 years ago

and yes to cinnamon. i had ubuntu mate before and i just wasn't impressed. cinnamon looks sexy af

Omega_Squid 9 years ago

Only thing I need to keep windoze around for is editing some of my legacy Premiere Pro projects, old GM projects, and Age of Empires!

NeutralReiddHotel 9 years ago

yeah wine has worked for 45% of all the work I've done on my current project, I think it will be good enough for the rest. and if not, i'm going to virtualbox that badboy. i just need to learn how lol i never figured it out last time i was on ubuntu.

Omega_Squid 9 years ago

Yea, Wine and Virtualbox in theory are supposed to be the best, but I seem to have awful luck getting stuff I need running to run properly. One day, it shall work!

NeutralReiddHotel 9 years ago

wine is easy. you just go to the website and you literally copy-paste the lines they give you into the terminal, and boom! i got game maker 8.1 working like a charm, and GraphicsGale too. they're both super sexy

but virtualbox is my mortal enemy, just because you need the iso and all i have is illegal copies of it. idk if they will work or not but i'll find out in the next few weeks. i need to playtest my game in Windows, as much as I hate the stupid OS.

Omega_Squid 9 years ago

Man, I had access to all kinds of keys in my IT job. Miss it sometimes, because having access to all that is sweet. I need to get 8.1 and test it out in wine. Does it let you compile and test?

NeutralReiddHotel 9 years ago

yup. i'm serious, i developed for 3 straight months (summer break) in ubuntu only. the only glitch is not being able to play MIDI files, but who cares about that

edit: MIDI files, NOT all general sound files. geez i made linux sound awful.

Omega_Squid 9 years ago

BUT I NEED MY COMPUTER TO PLAY THE NOTES