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Betcha Logitech is hoping I'll finally get around to buying a new mouse/keyboard combo.
But the one I have is so awesome. If only the media player (winamp) controls still worked all would be well. At least the 4 bookmark/shortcut buttons work, as do sleep, mute and volume...
Oh, and BF2142 gave me a big hassle early on, but then I got some much better games so I don't care anymore.
Ultimately, though, I'm back to XP and I don't think I'll wind up with Vista again. As I game less and less, going back to Gentoo looks better and better.
It takes a bit of study to make it stop managing me like the government would like to do, but after that it's been fine.
Turns out after some time on the phone and letters with customer service that they don't even try to see if it's used for multiple IPs or system configurations, they just count the damned installs and assume pirate if it's over some number they don't care to share. For those of us who have had the software for a few years, since 2001 for me, and who aren't afraid to play with configurations since it's always easy enough to start over if we don't like the results, it's a little bonus to being a Microsoft customer which we weren't expecting.
So, I took the time to learn some about Linux, haven't been on a Microsoft system since. The Microsoft system is working after the phone call to get a reg number that works *this* time, but if I got a virus that was easier to deal with through a clean install I'd have to call and explain, if the reg gets clunky and the hard drive full of trash the same, and so on. It just offended me so fucking much that they DEMAND to be a part of my life that I decided they'd now be no part of my life, haven't used Windows or anything else Microsoft since and I don't plan to. Not as long as I live.
They are so worried someone might steal from them that they are willing to preemptively steal from us or force us to jump through hoops to use what we paid for, based on nothing more than half guesses and suspicion. It's not a company model I'll support. Count your installs if you plan to use it and have had it a while. They do.
I expect the phonecall - I don't even bother to use the online version - due to various hard drive failures and hardware rearrangements on my copy.
If I had more spare time - and didn't play new games (those two variables seem to go hand in hand, actually), I might get around to playing with Linux. But, glorious laziness abounds. That, and day job that doesn't require me to know Linux. Although it wouldn't hurt. Hmm. I need another computer to play with.
I don't expect it to though, I don't need Microsoft for work or anything else. I won't beg to use something I paid for, period. Haven't played games for years now though there is a gamer out there with the same name. He ain't me though. Wouldn't want to give any website or others the idea that I support a company like that, they gear what they offer around what we use and I no longer use that. If they see more Linux on their logs they'll think more about supporting that.
Linux is easier than it seems though, it only took me that long because I had to install half a dozen different versions and play with them all myself for a while, make sure what I liked most and that I wasn't missing something in them. Any sane person could be up in a day
The main reason I hold back is the non-desire to create a new partition for it, and the fact that there doesn't currently feel like there's a "Killer App" kind of reason prompting me to check it out. Unlike, say World in Conflict, which you want to load and play now just because it's so much fun. Psychonauts fun.
My tone on the phone is clearly not begging, though. I'm like, yes, many dead computer components. Many replacements. How's the weather in Mumbai? Cool cool, ciao.
If you're a gamer or need it for work you might be better off to stay with Windows but for me there was no reason not to make the move. Only thing that isn't 100% is flash, the rest of what I use daily I see no problems in. Some aspects are actually better, mplayer for example runs fullscreen quicktime instead of in that little box we're stuck with on Windows. Computer is a bit faster and I went from a real "I'm needing an upgrade soon" frame of mind to being able to wait a bit longer. When I do buy I'm planning to be as open source compliant as possible, no nvidia or other proprietary stuff to deal with. Intel cards and others work just fine, if the ones that insist on proprietary lose business they'll get the idea same as they did with DRM.
Naah. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who has problems with Vista. It places big time demands on my video card, and that REALLY pisses me off because way back before Vista came out Microsoft had a web page where, if you let them, they would run a check on your PC to see if it was "Vista-ready." I did it, and everything checked out A-OK. Then when Vista was finally released I bought it, installed it without much difficulty, but then noticed my monitor gets speckly shit on the screen whenever I've got video playing. So I looked into it and wouldn't you know, suddenly my PC's video card was no longer "Vista-ready". What a bunch of bullshit.
Fucking Microsoft.
I built myself a new computer about a month ago, and it is proudly microsoft-free. I haven't got absolutely everything running the way I want it to under Ubuntu yet, but I know that I will, because there are no restrictions on how much things can be tweaked.
I'm still not recommending Linux to everybody, because it can take a LOT of time to get things working just right. But for me, it makes me very happy.