GlitchNYC

We gather here to mourn the loss of linux on Eric’s desktop.

June 10th, 2006

Vista Screenshot
Originally uploaded by Glitch010101.

It is done.

I just couldn’t take it anymore. 3.5 years of running desktop linux at home and I never stopped fixing it. There was always something that needed tweaking, something that was broken today.

I need an OS that vendors write working drivers for. I need it to do what I need in a hurry, without worry of having to go “i know you can do that under linux, I just have to figure out how.”

You know, simple things… like printing. And my display.

I can’t explain what a joy it was to install my OS and have 2 displays up and running at the right res within a few minutes, and know that they’re 3D enabled and accelerated.

Of course, this is going to make some of the other things that I took for granted (like NFS filesharing between my main machine and my MythTV box and SSH access) readily apparent, but i’m sure I can work around those losses.

I’m ready to do more work WITH my pc and less work ON it.