I remember when I left windows in 2002. Power supply and disk on my father's computer blew up and with new parts he also got Windows XP. On my own computer I wa

I remember when I left windows in 2002. Power supply and disk on my father's computer blew up and with new parts he also got Windows XP. On my own computer I was still using Windows 95 and 98. They had to be reinstalled regularly and if I needed more free space for something I would usually choose 95, the other time I would choose 98, I really had no preference. Anyway I was well versed in both. We had LAN over coax and after each reinstall I had to setup fixed IP address and net mask. When I tried to do the same on Windows XP I couldn't find it. I got really angry because it was at different places in both 95 and 98 so clearly Microslop didn't know what they were doing, there was no vision. And neither location was better, it wasn't like they slowly get it better with each new windows, quite the opposite, it seemed like it was getting harder and harder. I found it after 30 minutes and when I clicked OK the windows XP crashed. That was the moment I realized that Microslop will never make good OS. They are incapable of making good desktop OS. Each new version will only look different to justify the cost but underneath it will be same old rotten garbage that gets harder to use with every new version. Infuriated, I returned to my bedroom, uninstalled my Windows, installed DOS, and started looking for something better. I tried many OS over next couple years, even rolled my own, but in 2006 I finally settled on Ubuntu, which at that time had, for me, ideal combination of repository size, freshness and stability. I'm still on Ubuntu.