Frigging Windoz 98

My most pressing beef is the frigging WinDoze 98 on me Gateway Pentium confuzer. Lately, if I ask it to do more than two (2) jobs at once, it will freeze up and I have to reboot that bloody thing. So, what did I do this afternoon that over stressed the poor computer? I had it copying files from a zip disk to a CD I was "burning" and fired up a browser to print an image. Locked that bugger up solid! Had to reboot it and endure the "you didn't properly shut down..." crap!

Back years ago, the '286 was considered really hot suff. It was! In some ways, it was better than pentiums because the operating system didn't let you try to multi-task. No multi-tasking, not multi-failures! Truly, if they'd put the old operating system on a really fast computer, we'd be better off! (OK, I really don't mean that. How else could I checkout the "hot" photos???

What we need is a decent LINUX based system that could run the programmes I like to run Win Doze98 or Win Doze 3.1. Iwoild convert over to it. Besides, the various UNIX shells can do powerful things Win Doze 98 doesn't let users do!

Remember the "CLI nightmare? I remember it as being the wonderful CLI environment! Contrary to what the computer experience of most folks, which is "plug in the comptuer and turn it on", I started in the days of punched cards! Going up to the "CLI nightmare" was a real step upwards! (Besides, you can really screw up a computer when working from a CLI, so you can't play there if you're drunk or tired or whatever. Don't let the kids go there! One morning, in 1988, I really trashed the communications directory of the office computer. It was about 3 am and I'd been there since the previous afternoon. Boy, did i get slapped on the wrist for that one! he, he