Thursday, July 24, 2008

Moved Over to Linux...again



Well, just recently I had to reinstall Windows Vista because I installed some software that messed up my networking side of Vista. I'm not going to say what it was, but I'm never going to use any of their software soon... Because of this, at one point I had two Windows Vista partitions on my hard drive. So what do I do, I do what most people would do. After I was done using that partition to restore my files onto the newer copy of Windows Vista, I used gParted to delete my useless Vista partition. When it was done, in about 40 minutes because it had to move the partition to the left (that takes time). And, it failed because the Windows file system was "unclean". So it trashed the bootloader. I had to manually repair it... Then when I did, every time I booted Vista up, it gave me, "Preparing your Desktop". Which is not supposed to happen. Then when that message went away, I got some errors. Ohh great Windows!

So for now on, I'm moving over to Linux. It's so much better than Windows! It just never crashes, it's easy to use in my case. It's just the best thing for me. I'm going to be installing XP in a virtual machine so I can still use some of my required tools. But, there's no way I'm going back to Vista. I'm making this switch permanent until Windows 7 comes out. I might use it, I might now. From what Windows have done to me, I'm probably not going to use it.

Just some of my thoughts. I'm in Linux now; much easier to set up than Windows too! Wow, I sure did miss it... Great OS, for sure. Microsoft should be more like Linux. Where when you can modify anything; so this means if anything messes up, you'll be able to fix it. Why I love Linux. You don't have to defrag Linuz either. EXT3 is much more cleaner of a file system than NTFS. It's a great world. So many things run on Linux; including things you wouldn't even expect. Your TV, your watch (if it's a high tech one), a cable box; so many things, or at least the Unix kernal. Linux is everywhere, but you cannot see it. Linux could be the future. Let's wait and see...

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