My Gooey Preferences
The other day at work, I needed to do some computer work in private, and my desk is anything but private. So I reserved one of our quiet study rooms, grabbed MPOW’s laptop, and sequestered myself away. Unfortunately, the laptop is getting on in years and is loaded with software, so everything I did, from loading the computer up to switching from one window to another, was excruciatingly, jawclenchingly slow. There was no way I’d actually get any work done with this slug of a machine, so I ran home, got my own laptop, and went back to the library to do my work.
And I got spoiled. Working on my personal laptop in the workplace really highlighted how much I can’t stand Windows and Microsoft programs. I don’t like the visual look and feel of Windows, I don’t like the way MS Word and Excel automatically assume the person using them is a complete moron, and I’m infuriated by the way Internet Explorer constantly resets certain bookmarks (such as for Free Hotmail and Microsoft Internet Radio, which I delete everytime I open IE) everytime I use it on a different machine. I…I just don’t like Microsoft products.
Give me GNOME any day of the week. Give me Open-Office.org and Firefox or IceWeasel. Give me a good Linux distro and open source software anytime, but please take my Windows away.
December 8th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Did you mean to make that sound extremely naughty?
My gooey preferences are chocolate and caramel.
February 7th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
OMG, I so agree. And, you’ll be happy to know that I have a 700MHz iBook that runs kUbuntu now, and it runs great even on that old machine. I’m still an OSX snob for the most part, but Ubuntu *is* pretty… and windows… it makes me cry. I loathe it.