Windows Is Absolute Dogwater
Also I just found out that Bill Gates stepped down from his position as CEO in 2000.
I will wipe the fucking floor with the current CEO of Microsoft. 1v1 me, Satya.
Here’s the thing. Windows is supposed to be user-friendly. It’s supposed to be a good balance between simplistic and technical. It’s supposed to work. But does it actually achieve any of these things?
No. No it doesn’t.
Today, I needed to change my username. It seems like this should be a relatively straightforward operation, but boy howdy lemme tell ya, it’s anything BUT. I wanted to replace my old one (zebmc) with my current online handle (dishpit). So I dug into the settings and.. there’s no option for it.
I pull up Google. Start Googling. Trying to find an answer to this weird problem. I found one thread that said I have to log in to Microsoft and change it there. Okay that’s fkin weird, but whatever. So I log in.
To the guy that wrote that answer on that thread: you suck. The online options don’t effect your local account, and you know it. Okay, keep googling.
I eventually come across this other thread that basically says in order to change your username, you’ll need to create a secondary (admin) account, log in to THAT, and then use it to change the username of your primary account. Sounds easy enough, so I do exactly that.
The account’s created, the password’s set, I log out of my main account, go to sign in to the new admin account, aaaaand
I can’t log in to the new admin account. Great. Okay, it’s no biggie, I’ll figure out another approach. Lemme just back out of this and go back to my primary account and- wait, wtf? I can’t?? Only this new admin account exists??? And I can’t sign into it?!?!?
Like genuinely what the Hell even is this. Why is this a thing. I am completely and totally locked out of my PC. But wait, I can always just boot into Safe Mode and fix it from there. So lemme do that..
Well, nevermind. Same. Exact. Shit.
At this point, I’ve had it with Windows. The amount of bloatware that comes packaged with it (and can’t be removed) is astounding, it practically fills half of my SSD. The CONSTANT reminders of “let’s get your PC set up!” even though I SET IT UP WHEN I INSTALLED WINDOWS. Oh and, as a developer?? It’s an absolute NIGHTMARE getting things to work seamlessly.
Honestly the only real strength that Windows has going for it, is its usage as a gaming OS. Blows Mac and Linux out of the water in that regard. And to be fair, that is the ONLY regard in which Windows is superior.
This was essentially my final straw with Windows as a whole. It’s the only operating system in which I’ve experienced fatal and irreversible crashes. Fortunately, I had a spare Ubuntu installation media floating around, so it was time to plug that puppy into my desktop and rid myself of this blight once and for all.
And rid myself, I did.
I was initially saddened by the fact that gaming wouldn’t be the same experience, but after some digging I came across this wonderful little tool called Lutris. Paired with Wine, it essentially gets you access to almost any game. I’m not exactly sure how extensive the options actually are, but it’s large enough to cover the games I care about playing, so it works for me.
It was a bit of a headache to set up though, mostly because I made the mistake of installing Wine before installing Lutris which caused the game installations to fail for whatever technical reason that’s beyond my understanding (probably just versioning issues, I would imagine). But after a bit, I was able to get Battle.net and WoW Classic installed, AND get them both running.
Games aside, I also wanna touch base on just how FAST this shit is. Like, it’s blazingly fast. Almost zero bloatware to speak of, thanks to a minimal installation. And after getting my dev environment set back up, my SSD is out by less than 30gb, so I’ve still got so much space to work with!!
I’m sure there’s probably going to be one or two small things I’ll miss, but basically everything I need can run on Linux.