After many days and sleepless nights, I have reinstalled Windows XP back on to my laptop, all in the name of gaming (and music creation). The funniest part of this is that my legal copy of Windows is no longer valid, due to the fact that I have reinstalled too many times. I’d like to call that on Microsoft’s part
In any case, I needed a clean install of Windows on here, as per the three month refresher cycle it seems to need when under intensive use. I would love to get rid of Windows entirely from my computers. But I am forced to submit to their shit-for-code OS because they are unfortunately the commonplace and there are a few programs that I use/games that I play that simply refuse to run on any other OS. That or I cannot find a decent replacement. In this case, however, there is only one single program that I cannot use, and that would be Ableton Live.
Unless I want to move to Mac, I am stuck with Windows (and I have been contemplating getting a Mac lately). Until I have the money though, I will be sticking to my PC. Of course, it’s a toss-up because you can’t tweak and upgrade a Mac like you can a PC, and I love… no, adore the freedom modifying a computer entails.
I suppose the best way for me to do this would to make my gaming rig Windows and my work/art terminal a fancy Mac.
It pisses me off that software that I own, that I have bought, is no longer “genuine”. Between that and Vista, I’m thoroughly done with learning anything Microsoft. Windows XP is the last of the line for me. And I will no longer own a legitimate copy, it seems.
