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This entry is about computers
I started using Debian exclusively a while ago. I've had kind of an on again, off again thing for linux over the past five years or so. I'd install it to dual-boot with Windows, and then I'd try to see how long I could go without booting into the Windows partition to see whether I could permanently make the switch. The thing that always brought me back to Windows was that I wanted to play video games, and they just don't really make video games for linux. While it is possible to emulate Windows for the purposes of gaming, it doesn't tend to work very well or reliably, unless the game in question is pretty old. At least that is my experience. So I'd invariably switch back to using Windows full time.
When I moved home in December, I decided that I wanted to quit playing World of Warcraft, permanently. I decided to merge my infatuation with linux with the desire to rid myself of the possibility of easily playing an MMORPG and installed Debian. And that brings us to today.
The point of all of this is that while I've been running Debian exclusively for about seven months, I didn't make this switch because I harbored any ill will towards Windows. I just wanted to try something different, really, and since thinking differently costs so much damn money, I went with the cheaper route.
So it has been interesting that while I've been using Debian, my parent's Windows PC has been nothing but trouble. Until recently I'd been using Windows PCs for the past 13 years or so, and in all that time I have never seen nor heard of a computer with such problems. They're all software problems, and they are all apparently inexplicable. I consider myself to be fairly competent technologically speaking, so it's pretty much only a matter of pride that has kept me from reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling Windows. It's gone on so long, though, that I finally gave in and started the process this morning around 9:00AM.
My mother asked how long I expected this to take, and I said not much more than an hour or so. Well, the time is currently 5:46PM, and I'm still not done. The lion's share of this huge waste of my day was installing Windows Updates, roughly 200 of them, over the course of about four hours. And rebooting every 15 minutes or so.
So while my exodus from the Windows world was rooted in no real animosity, I am now convinced that the work required to install Windows is far more than any inconvenience Debian could possible present me with.
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