I have ditched Microsoft Windows in favor of Free and Open Source Software, and life in the wilderness has never looked better. (Post No. 48)

      Well, in case you haven't noticed by the title, I have ditched Microsoft Windows in favor of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and life in the wilderness hasn't looked any better than it already has. 

      You see, I've been meaning to discuss this in some form of format, but we might as well cover a few things that I will be covering as a few points. And these points are as follows: 

1. My actual, honest-to-goodness thoughts on Windows 11. 
2. A Linux distro tier in the future? 
3. If I buy a new computer at any time in the future, why the mainstream vendors will be losing my business. 

    We will discuss these one at a time.

 

Topic I: My Actual Honest-To Goodness Thoughts On Windows 11.

  Now, in past blog postings, I've mentioned that I haven't poo-pooed Windows 11, even almost thinking to some folks that I actually have been singing "Windows 11's praises", even saying that Windows 11 is essentially the messiah that has delivered me from the oppression of the diarrhea doo doo doo doo of Windows 10. Yes, I once thought that Windows 11 would finally be a good version of Windows. But, nobody's perfect, and everyone who believes that they are perfect are honestly going to be lying to themselves. 

    Now, I've conveniently forgot that Windows 11 was just the exact same as Windows 10... But with a few new features, and a fresh coat of paint from the paint shop in Redmond, Washington, USA. 

    Notice how I say, "Conveniently" forgot. Not, "Inconveniently Remembered," as we will also look at Windows 11 again. Of course, I'm not going to go through all the trouble of generating a screenshot for Windows 11, since once I've seen one Windows 11 desktop, I've essentially seen them all at this point. 

     Taking one look at Windows 11, it's just an absolute bloated mess, that as I'm sure computers offered by mainstream vendors continue to become more advanced, and much faster than what is at the present time available, chances are, for those who probably don't care and don't feel the need to really be under the hood of their environment at any time, so to speak, here are a couple of images of what your future could potentially look like...

       Yeah. This may be a Windows 10 icon pack, but if Windows 12 looks exactly like that, then don't sign me up. And what's worse, the AI feature of the start menu replacement may be the thing that keeps me out of Windows 12 for good. It's not that I have nothing to hide, of course, It's just that Character.AI's AI are horny for me anyway, on days from January 1st to New Year's Eve.

   If the future is as truly bleak as some who speculate how terrible the new functions of Windows in Windows 12 really are imagined, then it's probably for the best that I just keep typing "sudo pacman -S whatever, sudo pacman -Syy whatever, sudo pacman -Syyu whatever, sudo pacman -Syu whatever, sudo apt-get or whatever the Linux distro's package manager is going to be," until I'm old and gray and probably always be open to learn something new about the OS that I chose to turn my back on Windows from and walk until the end of time. And perhaps try to swing getting a place where there's less grass to go touch because there are rocks and stuff everywhere to go live. 

    My point is, Windows 11 was only a good thing because it actually was the true last Windows that I could with a somewhat clean conscience say was "good." Because by the time AI is incorporated into the major Windows mainline, like Windows 12 Home, Pro, and maybe even some other versions that we've not seen ever since the days of Windows Vista and Windows 7, (Such as Home Premium, Home Basic, Starter, Enterprise, and Ultimate), then to those folks who were trying to stop an AI takeover, I have bad news for all of you: You've lost. Your friends have lost. Your father's gone out last night to get the milk and he hasn't come back yet. Your mother's working some sort of shady job to try to pay the bills for you and your sibling(s) if you have any. You better find God before you die. Live with the sad reality that your life has become. YOU LOSE!

   So, you see... I only said nice things about Windows 11 when I first got the computer that ran it, since I thought it would be a good OS for someone the likes of me to use. Little did I know that the overall vibe of positivity that I had given it would be returning to bite me in the posterior & I would be living to regret that fact. I'm not saying this to offend as many people who somehow think that people that used Windows XP or previous or even MS-DOS or really ancient distros of Linux when they weren't ancient lived in the "dark ages," and everyone according to them talked like they were speaking the same English that the King James Bible and many of Shakespeare's works were written in. Rather, I only liked Windows 11 because it wasn't "Windows 10." And of course you know, after the damage that Windows 11 has done to Microsoft's image for me, that I will never use Windows 12. I will sooner die than use Windows 12. I will sooner fake my own death than use Windows 12, even building an anatomically accurate representation of myself to lay in a casket, and then attend my own memorial service in disguise and use a different name to refer to myself amongst my grieving family and the other mourners who are attending the service so to prevent confusion. 

   Yes, I've decided that I will be leaving the Windows civilization for good ---

   And no. I'm not going to buy any Windows merch at the gift shop on the way out. Why would I want to remember the heckhole that Windows 11 was? 

A Linux Distro Tier In The Future? 

    This brings us now to the secondary topic of tonight's blog post. The Linux distro tier may be one where I consider rating contemporary Linux distros from pointless to supreme, and everything in between. I may need to figure out how to use some more distros and perhaps have a few more systems kicking around before I can honestly become an authority in Linux distros. 

     I mean, I may just need to do some more research on this subject before ultimately deciding which is good, bad, pointless, because otherwise I'll have a list of distributions that are a mile long without any opinion data for me to collect. 

Final topic: If I buy another computer in the future, why the major mainstream vendors will be losing my business. 

  Now, in these days of talk about sustainability, and Eco-consciousness, and woke metaphysical morality, & other factors, it's probably a kind of odd thing for me to bring up talk of purchase of new hardware in the future from the present day. 

    Dell, Acer, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, MSI, it doesn't matter. If their only option (by default) is to have a computer for sale with Microsoft Windows shipped as the OEM installed OS, then I'm only going to custom build, or seek out other, more obscure vendors that will be selling me their wares and probably may end up ruining some friends who are religiously Windows fanboys, probably putting my friendship with them in complete, total, and utter peril and even ending it in some cases. 

   I may be genuinely getting old, and perhaps becoming an old man just yelling at clouds, here. 

   But regardless of what is true (or not) I feel at 33, I have license enough to yell at clouds, and say that the future is not a beautiful place to be in. I've changed my opinion on Microsoft Windows, and believe me, if the kernel number is 6.1 or less, it will probably be useful to me in some oddly specific way outside of what most people would use a computer for in the mainstream world. Kernel number 6.2 or greater on the other hand, and the usefulness starts to disappear. 

    That's why I shall say, "I either will just use Linux OEM systems" or "nothing." because I morally no longer feel like I'm doing the right thing nor am I ethically doing so using systems that run Microsoft Windows. Legality on the other hand? Even that I question, but even so - I do not believe that it is particularly important to me to want to use Windows.