Well, I’d be damned… but last week I had a problem with Windows that, on retrospective, is food for thought as related to what I wrote here in the last days of July.
My point about Linux as opposed to Windows was about how solid and robust Windows seems to be in comparison to Linux; which in exchange seems to run faster than Windows. I still think it is, as long as one’s Windows is not screwed by M$ itself. Although primarily my rants where about software available for both operating systems and not so much at the operating system level.
Well I was wrong, because there is not much point in lionizing Windows as the cutting edge of consumer and/or power user computing for the simple fact that, while everything works well and doesn’t break unexpectedly like it does in Linux, in Windows, if you rely on M$ for receiving updates you are setting it up for trouble and your system is virtually at the mercy of corporate psychopathy. I’ll explain why.
There is a first time for everything and in the world of corporate abuse and negligence, I was yet to witness the same crap I accustomed to witness in Linux, but in Win$low!!! Updating Mint has let me without WiFi connection, and there is no, and I MEAN NO FIX for it.
To put a long story (one week) short, I’ll tell that, being the experienced PC user I am, I never run into major problems with my PC unless something external prompts them. But once the shit hits the fan I’m at a loss in a manner way worse than when illogic crap makes me suffer on the Unix-like world.
In Windows soft matters I am always well-informed and as pertaining the use and maintenance of the operating system itself, I am used to behave towards the operating system in a flowing and caring way that only makes use of best practices and I never do stupid things that can put the integrity and stability of the operating system in jeopardy.
What concisely happened: I didn’t update Win$low since mid-June, and in the 20-25 days without updates there were like half a dozen important updates wanting to be downloaded and installed.
Since I started going outside to do stuff, and taking on account the time drain it would mean I wanted to be sure Win$low was in a hardened condition that will prevent any damned cracker mess with my rig, and make me lose time.
I proceeded to download and install the updates and (I don’t want to make a narrative or give much detail about this) it simply destroyed my Windows 7 AMD64’s kernel!!!…
After the system rebooted to finish updating my 64 bits Windows simply stopped working… tasks will give a semblance of being working, but multiply the time each things takes to be done by 350 and you’ll have the slug-like lag everything ended up.
A couple of hours later and trying to see what was wrong I realized it was the updates… it was so obvious!!! I uninstalled them but it was too late, the damage to the kernel was done and I was with a new copy of Windows 7 rendered unusable and un-updatable, DAMN!
So… it’s time to think of it and think until which point makes sense to rely on Win$low circus of corporate socio-economical resentment, because being ripped off by them like I was… it sounds to me more like the attempts of traumatized dweebs that think the world owes them something for all the abuse in their “academic formation” they received; where their learnt to be… you know what.
For me this can mean only one thing: it’s done with being at Win$low’s mercy… If I have the knowledge to cope with the degenerate hate of crackers and cybercriminals, and with the corporate idiots’ backwardness it only can mean that I’m not going to be updating Windows anymore whatsoever, mistrust Windows (although I’m a user of it since 3.11) from now on, and do with cottage-industry security soft that has proven to have products that transcended the freetard barrier.
And no, I wasn’t able to manage my anxiety nor to do yoga or weight lifting while the whole deception lasted.
