I am so tired of socially and otherwise completely clueless geeks telling me that Windows 8 was good “in all the ways that matter for an OS.”

I don’t care how lean it ran. I don’t care how fast it opens a window. I don’t care how much-improved the invisible internals are.

To me – and to most people – if the experience of using an OS is crap, the OS itself is crap.

Why is this so hard for many geeks to understand?

I am a geek –- and have been actively using computers since I was four and am very comfortable at the command line – but I care about the interface far more than I care about some hidden system that makes something 0.02% faster.

Things I’ve learned from Tumblr:

1) It’s impossible for a man to write a believable female character, no matter what. Strangely, the converse is not true.

2) If someone feels more oppressed than someone else, that gives the more-oppressed person the right to declare that someone else is not of the race that they say they are, never mind that both of their parents and all of their ancestors were part of that race for the past 10,00 years or so.

3) Violence is wrong and reprehensible, except when the people that I hate or that my “non-violent” group hates gets maimed or killed.

4) Science is a white male plot to…do something. I’m not sure. Anyway, science is fake.

5) If you are oppressed (in reality or in your imagination) this gives you the right to be the biggest prat asshole the world has ever seen.

Well, it is true that a lot of the people are on Tumblr are like 12, so I guess some of this is understandable.

But before the internet, I thought that my side – liberals and the Left – couldn’t possibly be as dim-witted as the average conservative.

I was SO WRONG.