Alas, my poor, poor Windows, being the corporate nutsack that it is could no longer bear the weight of a myriad viruses and trojans (most probably planted there by Davor's stupid DVD of bull) had to take the trip down to the computer Valhalla (Digicom) to get formatted. They saved my docs, desktop and my D hard drive. And get this, one day later, there goes the Windows down again. Prolly had viruses in the backed up hard drive. So, not willing to spend another crapload of moneyz for another trip to ye olde repaire shoppe, I decided to back up my own shit and then format the hell out of the PC!

However, viruses can be smart and besides corrupting your login app, your video codecs and erase your network connections (NOOOOOO!!!), they can also corrupt your burning apps! So there it is, WIN32:Vitro, laughing in my face: "Haha, you cannot burn CD's! Try and backup your stuff now, biatch!"

So, having a Linux CD at hand, I decided to give it a whirl. That goddamn penguin will run even if your PC has cholera! And now that I am running Ubuntu and backing up all my crap through that, and faced by the shortage of burnable DVD's, I've began to expand my knowledge of how weird Linux is for an XP user.

I love the fact that Linux's immune systems are OFF THE F****ING CHARTS, but man, I'd sell my soul for a Windows-style installation setup. Y'know, the one when you just click NEXT five times and you're done, not the one where you have to install stuff through an equivalent of command prompt! Which I couldn't get the hang of yet. Yes, I searched the internet, yes, I've read tutorials. Yes, I've done what they say. Still won't install.

Artwise, I found out that I have GIMP here, but one look at it and my head hurt! It's like putting together a Large Hadron Collider! WITH A MANUAL IN SWEDISH!

If I could make sense of installing Linux stuff, find a good emulator for Photoshop and get used to Linux's crappy equivalent of Guitar Pro, I could scrap the XP alltogether and make this deal permament. Who knows? who knows...