On second thought....

[sinanju]

After doing some netsurfing on snippy's computer, I've reminded myself of the several good reasons why I originally didn't want Windows XP. To wit: software registration (i.e., asking "Mother, may I?" of Microsoft to install and run programs on MY computer; XP spying on my computer and sending reports to Microsoft of its own volition; unilateral EULA changes in software updates and patches; and reports of XP refusing to function if too many hardware devices are changed and it thinks its being run on another computer.

Also, buying two copies of XP would be very expensive. And I realized that I couldn't use my copy of Office 97 with XP, which would mean an additional expense on top of that.

Screw that. Maybe I'll just reinstall Win98SE afresh after reformatting the drive.

Or...maybe I'll just reinstall Linux SuSe 9.0 (and Mozilla and Agent and WINE and Office 97) and use those for the time being. I can't play most of my games in Linux, but hell--I can't play most of them in Windows right now either.

Note: I am posting from my computer again. I ALREADY reinstalled Linux, and my internet connection is working just fine, thank you. Obviously NOT a hardware issue. And I've installed the Linux build of Mozilla and imported my Windows bookmarks. Now I need to either find a Linux version of Agent or install WINE and run Agent in that, and I'll be 90% back to my pre-weekend status.

But for right now (1:30 a.m.), after a long day of fighting my computer, it's time for bed.

Comments

Agent

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

I'm not wedded to Agent, though I've used it happily for many years now. I'll try Thunderbird (and I'll probably see what other news/mail agents are available for Linux as well). But I want to play around with WINE to see how (and how well) it works, and Agent is as good a test as any.

Re: Agent

[aiglet.livejournal.com]

Point.

I'm rather fond of Thunderbird, so I'm trying to convert as many people as possible in the hopes that some of them will be spiffy enough to help with the upgrades (which I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination.)