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Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>And that is why we hat Microsoft updates, in all their forms.
I love my little Linux dual-boot option... I'd love it even more if any games actually ran on Linux, without the need for a firm grasp of how to work Linux, which I do not have.
If I could choose an OS to master, I'd have to choose Linux or one of the other ones of that breed. Windows is simple enough to plug away at, but the freedom allowed to a master of Linux... Dayumn.</STRONG>
I have this theory that MS designs their OS's to hobble the everyday computer operator.. keep the little guy down and what not. Then the enterprise OS's they have like Win2000 work much better, which more corporations use.
Of course I think that every major corporation wants to subdue the little guy and turn us all into slaves... not that there isn't evidence of this, but I suppose that just saying it makes some peoples' ears "turn off".
In any freakin' case, I've been using Ubuntu for the last year or so, and it's absolutely amazing the difference it's made in everything that I do, both on the computer and in life in general. With MS OS's, it's an experience of frustration to use a computer; with Linux, it's hugely powerful for the individual using it. Gives you so much capability and power, ability, etc.
Windows XP, etc are all like putting on a concrete suit and going to work, a very stifling series of OS's.
Mainstream games feel like stale bread to me nowadays, and I can play DF on Ubuntu through wine even faster than on XP, so I have no need for XP anymore. I'm not as much of a gamer anymore either, so when the time came to axe XP it felt amazingly freeing, and my computer feels much more secure now without XP on it.
Vista is MS's power-play to make the consumer pay out the nose for computing.. but the smart people out there stay far away from it. I personally used to hate MS, but now that their terrible software is no longer on my computer, they're just another faceless corporate exploiter of the populace that I just dismiss as useless bastards to be ignored.
Long post here, but I think a lot of people have a long history of trials and tribulations with MS, so some of you out there can no doubt identify.
Another thing: you can run Ubuntu just fine on a P3 1000Mhz PC, quite well really. Seen in the light of this it's clear that MS's OS releases are a constant devolution of computer capability & usability.