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

Quote:
screenshot or what
Livestream!

NeutralReiddHotel 9 years ago

no fuck that you get a screenshot.

>500gb… oh my. I need to get rid of some of this shit. my 1TB hard drive only goes so far

Omega_Squid 9 years ago

Fun sidebar I saw today about a linux exploit (luckily every major distro affected is on top of patching)

Press backspace 28 times to break in to linux. Grub exploit

Unaligned 9 years ago

Since I've no intention of upgrading past 8.1 (fuck windows 10), I'll eventually have to switch. I've diddled enough with Linux through live booting/partitioning/server management that the only thing that worries me are muh games. I might look into setting up a GPU passthrough whenever windows 8.1 stops getting support.

Nopykon 9 years ago

My Pi is running Raspbian Jessie Lite, Laptop's running Win7 and Lubuntu. Really glad I decided to wait with upgrading to 10. Not going to happen now.

NeutralReiddHotel 9 years ago

yeah, avoid upgrading as windows 10 is fucking garbage. linux mint has been the friendliest transition… Ubuntu was nice to try out but when I switched to Linux Mint everything I got used to in windows 10 basically carried over… and it feels nice knowing i'm using a superior OS anyway with the same features. i've always disliked the "forced" sidebar of apps that Ubuntu's Unity forced on it's users. if you guys want to switch… anything but the Unity version of Ubuntu, including all the derivatives (I used the lubuntu distribution for my friend's ancient laptop and it works fucking amazing) all work very well.

Steven… that sucks yo. I know that feel with one of the main webcam programs i'm used to using. it's main stable release is in windows and the linux version is just awfully glitchy. i'm honestly not sure how i'll get around it but i refuse to reinstall windows if i do because it's just utter nonsense at this point. linux mint's installation took me 15 MINUTES to complete and everything was working out of the box. if i install windows 7, that shit takes hours on top of having to install needed drivers plus any antivirus programs… i'm done with it. hope you get your software ported soon… or that the newest version of wine supports it

Omega_Squid 9 years ago

I liked the Xubuntu with XFCE on old craptops

Nopykon 9 years ago

Lubuntu uses LXDE, which is even smaller than XFCE (in terms of memory usage). Yes, Unity is complete shit. Last year when my windoze broke, i tried Ubuntu 14. Amazone ads, slow, unstable as fuck. Couldn't get much work done on that fear 4 digits thing because of it. Most Linux nerds I've spoken to agrees that Ubuntu's been more ore less crap ever since they switched to Unity.