In response to my (justified) kvetching about Vista in my last post, a commenter named Matt wrote in:<\/p>\n
I hear there\u2019s some free operating system written by a guy from Finland. Sounds pretty crazy to me, but I hear you can just download it for free. Maybe you could have used that if you didn\u2019t like Vista?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yes, I\u2019ve heard of the OS by the guy from Finland, and even tried it. On introspection, though, my feelings about Windows are pretty much identical to my feelings about America: sure, it\u2019s big and bloated and crass and flawed and overcommercialized and buggy and insecure, and at least 95% of the insults that the sophisticates hurl at it are true. And other countries and OSes have a great deal to be said for them, and indeed I do<\/em> spend much of my time visiting them. But this is home<\/em>, dammit, it\u2019s where I was brought up, and things would have to get a lot worse before I\u2019d consider moving away for good.<\/p>\n
All I need, then, is the Windows analogue of Obama. Would that be the Windows 7 beta? (Vista, of course, being the Windows analogue of Bush?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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