{"id":8869,"date":"2015-10-16T20:45:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8869"},"modified":"2023-03-26T08:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:53:24","slug":"microsoft-i-am-so-done-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/microsoft-i-am-so-done-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: I am so done with you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><sub>Except for the two applications that only run in Windows&#8230;<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lost the use of my Windows 7 partition on my laptop last week after a Windows update.&nbsp; They have been pushing Windows 10 for a while now, but I have ignored it because Windows 7 is just fine for me. I tried to ignore the latest nagging update and: Oh, joy! The computer is stuck in an endless reboot loop. Fortunately, I had a dual boot system and the Linux OS booted right up. Go figure! I was able to mount the Windows partition from Linux and recover all of my files.&nbsp; This is a good reason to have a dual boot system or keep a bootable thumb drive handy.&nbsp; At first, I thought I might be losing sectors on my hard drive, but no.&nbsp; It turns out, one of the files that changed during the update was corrupted.&nbsp; No big deal, I can reload windows and be back in business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will only take an hour or so.&nbsp; An hour that could be better used for something else, something akin to billable hours, which is how the mortgage gets paid. My computer is not a hobby, it is a tool. I don&#8217;t have time to play around with things for fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I thought, why bother?&nbsp; I am using Linux with no serious disruptions.&nbsp; In fact, it boots faster, runs faster, is more secure, and generally has fewer hangups. LibreOffice has all of the applications I need for general correspondence and business administration.&nbsp; I can run Win 7 as a virtual machine in VirtualBox as long as I can get the USB device I need to be recognized by Linux and then passed through to the virtual Win 7 OS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, to hell with Windows and all its nonsense. Goodbye, you inferior, expensive, and buggy piece of garbage. I will not miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except for the two applications that only run in Windows&#8230; I lost the use of my Windows 7 partition on my laptop last week after a Windows update.&nbsp; They have been pushing Windows 10 for a while now, but I have ignored it because Windows 7 is just fine for me. I tried to ignore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/microsoft-i-am-so-done-with-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft: I am so done with you&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}