Periscope destroyed after save game.

[MattM1121]

Looks like my crappy new Xbox layout. *ick* Screw this, I'm getting a MAC. Or better yet some Linux thingy.

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

My experience base spans multiple computers. No problems. Ever.

By the way, greetings from Windows 8! Don't be impressed, it is not impressive. It's the SH5 of Windows. We go from a sophisticated and debonair Windows XP (hold on--have to go to Firefox on XP because the Metro Internet Exploder doesn't use multiple tabs (excuse me while I cheat wildly)...***8230; Oh @#$%$$ I can't open a tab for Photobucket to cut and paste the link......

Guess I can't do this post in Windows 8. We'll save here and continue in primitive, outdated Windows XP where you can actually get work done. Stay tuned....

Whew! Back home again. Let's proceed. Windows XP, sophisticated, capable, multitasking, civilized: You can work here!


Crap! That is so last year! Let's replace it with the whiz bang modern Windows 8, shall we?


There ya goes pals and gals! To be fair, you can choose from eight or so colors for your background. Metro doesn't multitask and yes those buttons have to be that big, no confusing photographic color pallet allowed, you MUST look at these garish and clashing colors. Why is this that way? Why, because cell phones are that way! Yes, Microsoft has found a way to turn your $1500 computer into a $50 cell phone. Everybody cheer! I had to leave Windows 8 just to make this post. What happens when you attempt to do real work? I'd just load up Windows 3.1 again. It was better.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by MattM1121

Looks like my crappy new Xbox layout. *ick* Screw this, I'm getting a MAC. Or better yet some Linux thingy.

Bad news. They've all caught the sickness. Let's make computers into cell phones!

Mac has already gone that way with their new GUI. It's a disgusting and ugly thing that insults the hardware it runs on.

Windows, you have seen it now. Just take some Pepto Bismol and call me in the morning. By the way, the design WAS pioneered on the Xbox and metastasized like some grotesque cancer to Windows. It needs chemotherapy. One scandalous secret of Windows 8: once you start it, you can't shut an application down except by killing it with the task manager! They say that is really a GOOD feature as memory is cheap..... That is the lamest piece of smarminess I ever heard in my life. I USED to be opposed to the death penalty......

Linux? Well there you have a choice of GUIs. Let's take Ubuntu's Unity. Let's not. It is much better than Windows 8 but the same monochrome colors and big buttons covering your screen. Like Android (a subset of Linux) the apps insist in arraying themselves alphabetically and refusing to be organized in any logical manner that would help you find what you want. Yuk! At least it multitasks.

So let's try another Linux GUI, KDE!. This thing is so alien you can't even figure out how to use it. Now they're joined in that boat by Windows 8 Metro. Yippee! KDE 3 used to be great. 4? Near as I can tell it's a joke. Someday I'll get a book and learn to use it. Wasn't the idea of the computer according to Apple that you never had to touch a manual to use it? Forget THAT! But hey! KDE looks WONDERFUL.

Ok let's load up Gnome 2. Actually this one is still a cell phone abortion. But I have to hand it to them they made it look beautiful and operate semi-well. This is one that looks as great or maybe even better than XP. I use it as my GUI of choice in Ubuntu and I have 12 GUIs to choose from there.

I sure wish the old GDM, Gnome Desktop Manager, were available to use. It isn't. Gnome 2 has a legacy desktop, but its missing a third of the old interface.

So we need somebody to come in and save the world from all these lousy cell phones. Any volunteers?

[DrBeast]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

So we need somebody to come in and save the world from all these lousy cell phones. Any volunteers?

*shrug*
I still use my good, old Nokia 2600. 6 years and counting. I mean, it still works, why change it? But nooo, people like shineys. Not exactly Jobs's fault the whyPhone became all the rage. You catch my drift, yes?

[Rockin Robbins]

Well, I didn't mean REAL cell phones. I mean wannabe computer cell phones. A friend owns an iPhone. When she saw my wife's LePan TC970 tablet ($200), she decided to dump the iPhone, get a tablet and a flip phone.