Note: this isn’t a discussion on what OS is better or Mac vs. PC or any of that jive. This is a general gripe about any commercial software and how sneaky its becoming.
Citizens of the earth,
Windows is letting XP degrade. Or more exactly they’re forcing it to degrade. I’ve been an XP user for years and have had no issues at all. Its been just Jim Dandy. I don’t care what you Mac users or Linux brainiacs say, XP is a great OS. Or at least, it was… because for some reason shortly after Vista was released, it seems like my computer is running worse and worse after every update. Microsoft is fucking euthanizing XP.
I’m building my next computer and I’m running one of the Linux analogs on it. So whatever. I’m fed up with the commercial software game. You can find any programs doppleganger for free and in many instances more reliable. I wash my hands of it.
I’m sick and tired of updating a piece of software and suddenly something else won’t work anymore. I update the new problem area and something else will fail. And eventually I’ll come to the point where I’m being told I have to pay for something that was previously free. Wow what an elaborate coincidence, or more likely an elaborate scam.
For instance: I just recently updated my Adobe reader. Suddenly all of my SWF files are unusable. The Adobe/Java flash updates wont fix the problem… Oh but I can BUY a flash player alright.
I’m just really annoyed that well enough couldn’t be left alone and now most people are forced to choose either a Mac or a PC with fucking Vista. YUCK!
Another example: I have no doubt in my mind that Symantec (or one of its under-the-table subsidiaries) is producing the majority of the so-called viruses that they claim their software “protects” your computer from. I used to run Nortons and would have the occasional virus like any other guy. The program expired and I didn’t immediately buy the new version. Wouldn’t you know I got blasted with a real sonofabitch of a virus in just a few days of running without updates. How about that. I bought the new version of the program and found that it was so bloated that it would use up waaaay to much of my memory, so I ended up disabling it completely. Here’s the interesting thing. My computer ran better and had fewer problems with the anti-virus disabled than it did when I had the old one actually running. Thats one hell of an anti-virus, yeah? But when it expired again, guess what happened… I got blasted with another major virus. WTF? When that happened I manually removed every anti-virus programming I had. Even that McAffee skeleton. And I ran without it for over a year before I even got a freeware anti-virus and I ran it for another three years and I still haven’t had a virus.
If anyone else senses some inherent wrong in that scenario and also has noticed that OS’s as well as any other programming tend to mysteriously self destruct in time for their replacement, review this entry and tell me what you think. If we get enough good negative feedback we can send it to Congress and get these programmers to stop fucking the consumer so hard in the ass for once.
Thanks!
SARACANITE 