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Yesterday I fell to the Dark Side.
We installed WinXP on Kastaka. Not only that, but my mother (who I'm now allowed to mention :-) ) used my name when saying WinXP should be good to someone!
WinXP is the height of evil, and assumes that you are stupid, and runs programs for you and changes your start menu on the fly and whines about having properly signed drivers and makes you click around a bunch more if you want to see, e.g., the root directory of your disk (which is where it puts you just after My Computer and Explorer is more hidden as default) or Program Files. However, it is also much faster at loading things than Win98 was, and we haven't managed to crash it yet, and it's made the wireless network and the proxy server work again, and all our old programs seem to run on it too. So, it's evil but also useful... the worst combination, evil and seductive...
And my parents are determined to get another copy and install it on Yamsyn, despite my suggestion that we get our hands on a copy of Mandrake or one of the other more user-friendly Linuxes (them having banned me from trying to install Debian on anything they have a stake in). Bah.
We installed WinXP on Kastaka. Not only that, but my mother (who I'm now allowed to mention :-) ) used my name when saying WinXP should be good to someone!
WinXP is the height of evil, and assumes that you are stupid, and runs programs for you and changes your start menu on the fly and whines about having properly signed drivers and makes you click around a bunch more if you want to see, e.g., the root directory of your disk (which is where it puts you just after My Computer and Explorer is more hidden as default) or Program Files. However, it is also much faster at loading things than Win98 was, and we haven't managed to crash it yet, and it's made the wireless network and the proxy server work again, and all our old programs seem to run on it too. So, it's evil but also useful... the worst combination, evil and seductive...
And my parents are determined to get another copy and install it on Yamsyn, despite my suggestion that we get our hands on a copy of Mandrake or one of the other more user-friendly Linuxes (them having banned me from trying to install Debian on anything they have a stake in). Bah.
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Mandrake
Date: 2002-12-18 08:16 am (UTC)From: