We’ll take a break from my current posts, which are detailing something I experienced just the other day whilst at work. Instead, we’ll focus on the fact that I have been ruined. I am broken.
And I blame Bill Gates. You see, I was weaned on the sour milk of Microsoft’s sagging, dusty teat. My first experiences with a computer were with MS-DOS, where (my grandfather instructed me) you pressed the damned space-bar if it asked you for the ever-elusive ‘any’ key. My father was a master with batch commands, fool-proofing our family’s computer with an autoexec that pulled up a nifty menu with numbers for all the programs we used. Rather ingenius for the times, but these days, it don’t cut it.
My current “box,” which is how all l33t hax0rs refer to their computers, was running XP. And then the hard drive crashed, and I lost that OS. I still have the upgrade disc, but it needs a previous copy of Windows to verify itself. My computer came with Win98 on its restoration disc, but of course that’s not good enough. I even installed the foul Win98 onto my machine (which is now unclean, I believe) and XP still wouldn’t accept it as one of its fell brethren. So, I’m “stuck” with Linux.
Which I enjoy. I really do. I like telling people, “Hey! I’m a Linux user, man. Take your Windows and… do something with it! I dunno, something involving your butt! Or something!” But, my God, I suck so hard at it. I am a terrible, terrible Linux user. I use my computer for a grand total of four things. So far, I’ve managed two of them. I’m still working on getting a bank register program, and as for MUSH clients… I have war stories to rival your grandpappy’s.
I guess I’m just used to installing programs and having them throw their random crap wherever, writing over .dll files and making my paths and registry a complete and utter mess. But it’s easy! One click!
So, yeah. I’ve been ruined. Fuck you very much, Microsoft.
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