Suck my balls.

So last night I went to bed and made note of the tiny little Windows Update icon in my system tray. Being far too tired to wait out the download to examine what packages Windows was trying to install, I went to bed almost certain that my settings indicated that no updates were to be actually INSTALLED without my consent.

I wake up this morning to a black screen with an error message that, essentially, said, "No maek login screen. Ouch." After pressing a random key on my keyboard, I got a blue screen and was forced to restart. Upon restart, same problem.

Not ****ting you, every successive Windows update since the release of Vista has turned my computer into more and more of a flaming pile of ****, as if Microsoft was trying to FORCE me to buy their new inefficient and utterly terrible operating system, which my computer isn't really capable of handling anyways. (protip: it meets the minimum requirements, but little more, so I have no intentions of updating JUST yet).

I'm really at the end of my rope here. I'm very close to just installing Linux and calling it a day. I'm trying to see if I can survive without an audio machine long enough to warrant installing an OS I know won't nuke my system (though it will nuke my mind) until I can afford to bring it up to par with Vista.