Dear Microsoft,

[alexpgp]

After using Windows for over a quarter of a century on a variety of machines, Windows 8 has driven me to seriously consider acquiring a Macintosh computer on which to do my work.

It's that bad.

Cordially...

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[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I was seriously considering doing that, except the laptop I bought was built to only accept digitally signed installation media (read: Windows 8), and although I did consider trying to install a signed Ubuntu image, I ended up not doing so.

How was your experience? Do you run Windows in a VM?

[lifewalker.livejournal.com]

These days there are open source equivalents for nearly any software you might need. I have Vine installed, but never had to use it yet.