smackfoo.com | I find your lack of faith disturbing.

I’ve come to a fork() in the operating System road.

Indeed.. I’m not entirely sure I wish to install another Microsoft Operating System product, again.. ever.

But, I’m getting ahead of myself. You see, late last night I decided to free up some previously assigned space on my workstations SATA drive. Not a big deal really and it’s relatively simple task to perform in virtually any OS. Open the appropriate partition tool, delete the unwanted partitions, reboot and rejoice.

At least, that is how it is supposed to transpire. But not today last night. Oh no. Not at all.

Perhaps it was the slightly derrogitary comments regarding my XP install’s slide into sluggish oblivion, perhaps it was bored with idly reading and writing and wanted more, whatever the reason, my systems OS decided to rebel.

Thus, despite being specifically instructed on what was actually required, Microsoft’s Disk Management MMC snap-in in took matters into it’s own pixelated hands and proceed to not only delete the unwanted partitions, but also make such a mess of the partition table that even several disk recovery softwares’ could not put ‘humpty’ back together again.

.. and the crazy part? I’m so ‘used to’ and ‘familiar’ and indeed ‘resigned to’ Microsoft Windows’ penchant for replicating a Magog horde¹ every other month that I’m no longer surprised by such events. Tired of? Fuck yes.. Surprised by? Not really.

I have backups², however I’m about done with putting up with this shit. Hence my first comment in this post. I just don’t know if I particularly want to repeat Microsoft’s equivalent of Groundhog Day yet again.

I think it’s time Windows took a back seat to Linux or OS X. I have a feeling I’m one of an increasing many to make the same call.

1. .. go read the wiki entry, seriously. (↩)
2. .. some of the more useful data is a few weeks old but I’ll get virtually everything back, eventually (↩)