A once gloriously equipped laptop...

DOOMED!!! Yes, ladies and gentleman, a once gloriously equipped laptop has fallen prey to a most insidious enemy- WINDOWS! (audience boos)

Unsuspecting owner, Hannah Rains, innocently began installing the software for her new camera, when suddenly- DUN DUN DUN!- catastrophe struck! It began with an error message, in the middle of the installation process, and then the real trouble began. Without her approval or consent, WINDOWS (boooooooo!!) restarted. Again. And again. And again.

Shutting her poor laptop down, Hannah brought it to Darryl, her godfather, who possessed a semblance of computer expertise. Mustering his computer skills, Darryl accessed the cmputer in SAFE MODE (yay!). However, because WINDOWS (boooooooo!!) restarted in the middle of the installation process, the process could not be completed or uninstalled, thus leaving the once gloriously equipped laptop effectively incapacitated.

Darryl and Hannah, in their limited knowledge, saw only one option. Retrieving the OPERATING SYSTEM DISC (audience gasps!), Hannah takes a moment of silence to mourn before approving the complete wiping of the hard drive- the finality of this action stripping the once gloriously equipped laptop of all the glorious applications, art, and software that had been lavishly bestowed upon it. 

Thus, the once gloriously equipped laptop was reverted to its factory condition... (audience cries)

But ladies and gentleman, this is NOT the end! (gasp!) This laptop will be restored to it's former glory! Nay, BEYOND it's former glory! THIS laptop will be freed from it's most beguiling, seemingly innocent enemy, and will be VICTORIOUS in LINUX (audience cheers wildly)!!!

All this to say....yes, my computer crashed. I lost everything, and I'm very bummed about it. Hopefully putting Linux on it will PREVENT stuff like that from happening again though. (However, I'm not brave enough to try that venture without Raoul around, so that's going to wait until I get there, hehe.)