As most of you have previously read, I have an EEE, and chose to put Windows XP on it instead of a form of Linux. Well, the Microsoft bug got to me and I ended up switching all my computers back over to XP. Ubuntu’s updates kept breaking my wireless, my sound, a little bit of everything really, and Arch was working good until I had a problem so significant I couldn’t even get to a prompt or anything to troubleshoot. Screw it, I decided, for these computers anyways, I know Windows just works.

LMMS was really the great enabler for me, it now has a Windows version in beta, which works okay (haven’t tested it much). That was really the last holdover, the last thing I wanted Linux for. All the other programs I use go across to Windows–Blender, Celtx, Audacity, Inkscape, that’s pretty much it. I would like to give Ardour a good try but sound is the most fucked up thing in Linux in my experience, random programs locking up the sound routinely and I had to figure out which process to kill. Not fun and not productive.

Also, I just know XP well. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve hit Win key + E, or D, or R in Linux to bring up a file manager, Desktop, or Run dialog respectively, only to have no response. It’s the little things, and the fact that I don’t have to be Sherlock fucking Holmes to get certain hardware working, that makes XP way more productive, therefore the best choice for me right now.

I don’t foresee ever going to Vista, partially because it’s a resource hog and partially because by the time XP no longer has programs compiled for it I’ll have given Linux a second chance and hopefully it’ll be in a lot better shape. Mac is totally out of the question, for their patronizing commercials alone. Oh, number one laptop on college campuses? That certainly proves something–that a lot of college kids are uninformed fad-chasers.