>old laptop died
>dude, I'm getting a Dell
>amazon page clearly says this thing has Win 8.1 on it
>arrives with Windows: Big Brother Edition
>fuck it, I guess we're doing Mint
>most satisfying hard drive reformat ever, followed by that sinking feeling when you have to use Linux
>Won't allow no password, because you never know when russian hackers might break into my apartment to try and steal my porn
>use single apostrophe as password to minimize the number of hours per day I'll be spending just typing the fucking root password
>Doesn't recognize wifi card and laptop doesn't have ethernet port, have to manually download drivers on another machine and copy them to the right folder
>Touchpad doesn't function, have to manually edit a config file and c&p a string of terminal commands that I don't understand at all that I randomly found after half an hour on google
>Default system font is giving me eye cancer, download Comic Sans and set everything to that.
>Package manager only has Firefox 28 and Firefox 46, not the version I need. Install 46, copy my profile, and spend 5 minutes fixing all the broken extensions and shit.
>No way to lock desktop icons to a grid in any decent way. Recent forum post from the dev in charge of Nero says he's working on it but his REAL job is eating up too much of his time at the moment.
>Spend rest of the day trying to customize UI
>Changing titlebar colors etc. involves downloading entire new themes and/or manually editing .css files.
>Removing logoff button from the menu involves opening up a javascript file and commenting out a bunch of shit.
>Other annoyances only seem to be fixable by directly editing the OS' c source, which random forum people were actually doing.
>finally get it to a point where at least it will run most of my shit
Final verdict: Meh. Buggy and amateurish, but it's functional I guess and it's not Windows 10. I'll try it for a week or two before deciding whether to buy a W8 dvd.
