I’ll be objective, but Windows really sucks

I was glad that there’s a chance for me to work with a NGO in London, and basically my boss is an amazing, sweet and clever lady, I love working for her.

My first task, however, is to format her Dell.  (We named that Dellie, btw, since it’s a little Dell).  The problem is not about formatting, but to safely transfer her files, not only embedded in two user accounts, they were also scattering around desktops and document folders.  Normally copy-and-pasting would help, but unfortunately since her computer was quite tangled up (possible registry-issue), for about 1 in 50 files (she has over 20k files) there’s one that needed to be manually renamed before I could move.

Hence I started moving the files and backing-up at 2pm, and never got any progress until  8pm, when I could finally start formatting.  Well, the good news is, it took 2 hours only to completely format it.  The bad news?  Windows doesn’t recognize the hardware components and as a Mac user, I completely flipped out since I haven’t done that in the past 5 years, until I spotted the Dell’s extra package and reinstalled all the Drivers as well.

Exhausted and traumatized, I got home at 11, plus I couldn’t really find my office door in the dark.  I guess I used my my adrenaline monthly supply and now I am an 80-years old.

So really, Window sucks.  Objective, personal experience.