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title: Using Windows
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2020-03-27T05:02:06Z
overall impressions of using windows for the first time in... well,
let's just say a long time:
sure you can boot up a game in it, but the game will crash at critical
points. everything is really locked down, and in order to do anything
remotely hackerish you will end up with a folder of weird EXEs that you
feel nervous running because you can't view the source, and they're from
weird places on the internet with a lot of ads.
there are adverts everywhere in the operating system's display, and...
it feels kind of... 'cheap' - like microsoft doesn't care about windows.
it just looks and sounds cheap.
by contrast linux, BSD, and free desktop environments look really
glossy, or matte, and seem really responsive
OH! yes, on the topic of responsive: windows will just lock up for no
reason sometimes. and there's nothing you can do about it.
i think the one things i like best about windows is the metallic
grinding noise you get when it crashes and diplays a BSOD
i will routinely yell YAY IT'S BROKEN when that happens.
overall score: annoying/10