Finally had time to reformat and reinstall the other day, and discovered some amazing revelations. First, I’m still very much a geek, writer aspirations and others aside, and I still actually find such a thing as reformatting and reinstalling apps on my PC exciting. Sad really, and cause to ponder for some I’m sure, but there it is.
Second, I have a healthy 68% dependence on free applications (yay!), and a consistent 31% reliance on proprietary ones (boo!), albeit the latter, diminishing over the years (yay-boo!)
To wit, the installations I’ve installed so far:
Paid for:
- Macromedia Homesite with Topstyle CSS Editor
- Adobe Photoshop
- MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
- Norton Ghost
- NBA Live 2k6
Free
- Irfanview
- Firefox
- Nero
- Thunderbird
- PDF Creator
- Yahoo Messenger
- Adobe Reader
- Google Talk
- Filezilla
- Clam AV
- Putty
Ergo, 16 applications, 11/16 (68%) are free, and 5/16 (32%) paid. ‘Paid’ being a relative word, as many of those were purchased many years before. NBA Live was won in a contest, Homesite was a big discount from waay back, and I can’t remember how I got Norton, but again, that’s an ancient version, although there really hasn’t been many innovations in backup industry so there’s no updating problem there. I must have gotten it from when I was still peddling software for a distributor in a previous life.
My last observation: Photoshop is the only app left keeping me from completely moving on to Linux. Well, that, and NBA Live :P
update june 30, 2006: Forgot to add WinRAR, as the Windows installed file compressor does not support .tar, .gz and .tar.gz files, so that makes it 12/17 (70%) free and 5/17 (30%) paid.
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