Exciting Reformatting News

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:

  1. Macromedia Homesite with Topstyle CSS Editor
  2. Adobe Photoshop
  3. MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
  4. Norton Ghost
  5. NBA Live 2k6

Free

  1. Irfanview
  2. Firefox
  3. Nero
  4. Thunderbird
  5. PDF Creator
  6. Yahoo Messenger
  7. Adobe Reader
  8. Google Talk
  9. Filezilla
  10. Clam AV
  11. 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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