Well,
A few nights ago a maxtor hard drive I installed on my PC crashed, and it crashed hard, I'd only had it for about 4 months before this disaster.
My PC is old, I bought it used, and was running that crappy Win98 on that machine, I'm an extremely poor college student who couldn't afford to upgrade, but I doubt it'd made a difference.
Win98 has actually killed three perfectly good computers that I've had before, and each time I couldn't afford to upgrade or just buy a whole new system. What generally happened was, I'd buy the hardware I needed, like a cd writer, and not worry about the OS, well you know how Windows says to avoid "multiple restarts" because it can damage your hard drive?
How in the hell are you supposed to avoid it when the OS crashes on a REGULAR basis? There have been days where my system crashed at least 4 to 5 times in a single day. As for the most recent crash...
I was sitting there all excited to get started on playing around with JavaScript, (I'm majoring in Multimedia and Web Design) so I was about to open up Note Pad, yes I said Note Pad, Dreamweaver is easy, but it makes it TOO easy, and I need practice, lots of it.
I had just bought the book "JavaScript in an Instant" at Borders. Anyway, I had about three windows open and out of nowhwere it just restarts, then it refuses to start back up, not even in safemode, it would attempt to run through scan disk and get about 64 percent done and crash again making this horrible noise "click-click, click-click, click-click" leaving me no alternative but to hit the power button, which in turn caused an even harder crash in which my computer would not even register the C: drive.
I took the drive out of my computer and reformatted it on my parents Gateway using the software Maxtor provided. Well, everything was fine, so I thought, so I put it back into my computer and reinstalled everything, yes including WinSuck98. After I had finished installing ALL my software and all my drivers, and all my hardware, the system crashes AGAIN, so I restart and hear the horrible "click-click" again. I started smashing things and a long string of explatives erupted from my mouth and I started all over again, hoping maybe, maybe, Oh PLEASE God, maybe it might work this time?
Refromatted it AGAIN on the other computer using the software provided by Maxtor and put it back on my machine, reinstalled WinSuck and tried running ScanDisk for Windows, it got to 64 percent and "click-click" again I turned it off and back on again, guess what? That's right, Drive C: not found. MOTHER...you know the rest.
So, I got on MicroSucks website told them how much they sucked and that they owed me money HA HA (hey I can dream can't I?) For destroying so much of my hardware. Then I got on the net and started looking stuff up.
At my school the Art Institute of Colorado everybody uses Macs that's in the Multimedia Department. I've only been using Os9 and now OsX there for about a year and I like it, but still prefer PCs.
I first heard about Linux when a Mac guy and Linux guy at my school were both sticking it to Microsuck, I overheard their conversation and the Mac guy says, "The only thing Microsoft ever produced that impressed me was a screen that you could write on, you know like the monitor, and you could save that as like an e-post it." And the Linux guy goes "They won't impress me until they fix the operating system". They both had a good laugh and then the Linux guy goes, "I just don't get it, I can do the SAME thing in Linux and it DOESN'T crash"
I was like *gasp* a...computer...that....doesn't? crash??? Could it be?
I hadn't really thought much more about Microsuck alternatives until my infamous super crash that has caused me to have to pay the postage to ship my hard drive back to Maxtor in the hopes that they will honor my warranty and replace it, which I'm not sure of. Even though I installed the drive EXACTLY the way the manual and software said to, when I last took it out it was extremely hot to the touch, that has NEVER happened to me before when installing or uninstalling a drive.
In any event, I just needed to vent and I'm sure you guys appreciate it. I really want to stick with the PC and start using Linux, BUT I'm not so sure I can because to my knowledge companies like Macromedia and Adobe haven't developed any software for Open Source OSes like Linux have they?
And since those are the "standard" and what we HAVE to use at school it looks like I either have to like sell ALL my blood and sign up for some scientific experiments to afford a Mac, or stick with using WinSUCK