Venting some steam
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011After maybe a decade using Win2K, I finally joined the modern world and bought a new PC, which came with a pre-installed, 64-bit version of Win7.
Man, what a disaster.
After just a few hours I suddenly remembered why I had not upgraded the machine for all those years.
- The search function (you know, the basic stuff to find files) doesn’t work anymore. Ridiculous.
- The machine only has two times 289 Gb, even though it’s advertized as “640 Gb” (there’s even a sticker on the side claiming this).
- Where the fuck are my Windows CDs or DVD?! You mean I can’t reinstall it when needed? You think it will never get corrupted or something?
- The guarantee is invalidated if I open the machine, LOL. Of course opening the PC was the first thing I did, breaking some seal in the process that was there to prevent me from doing so. Day 1, guarantee is already dead, yay.
- 3DS MAX refuses to install on this OS. Bloody marvellous. It’s a legal version and everything, but no, of course, doesn’t work. Yes it’s 3DS MAX 6, so fucking what? I’m a programmer, I don’t need all the fancy stuff from new versions, and all those plug-ins don’t work in newer versions of MAX anyway. Right now I’m totally screwed, I can’t create new levels for Konoko Payne. Don’t fucking tell me it’s hard to make something work on both old Windows and new Windows, my own engine does that perfectly, it’s just fucking laziness or stupidity if you can’t even do that.
- Don’t get me started on the new retarded features that keep getting in the way. Give me a bloody search feature that works, then we’ll talk about the fancy bullshit.
I’m very tempted to just format the whole thing and re-install Win2K over the Win7 crap.
