So this is a boy of a rant.
Our corporate computer overlords are really studying to make me unhappy. A couple years ago the Wif, who had a five year old to shelf Apple desktop, had it start giving us problems. First, the video card took a dive because she was playing a seven year old game. Then we find out that updates are done. Then the drive fails, and here we are with a desktop that has proprietary hardware (I’m looking at you $200 video card for something that I can buy for $35), no more updates, no more over priced Genius Bar.
So next we get her a laptop, so she can study on the go, with Windows 8, which we disliked but it worked, and that was fine. Sure, Lenovo pre-installed with more bloat and spyware then a follower of Nurgle, but whatever. Microsoft decides that everyone is upgrading to Windows 10. Whatever. After they pushed me a step to far, no more Windows for me, I went back to Linux, knowing full well that there ate fewer development tools, fewer games and fewer drivers. But, I wasn’t being pushed into am upgrade I didn’t want. Windows 7 is still the best Windows I’ve over used.
But this is about the Wif’s Windows 8 laptop. So we do the upgrade to 10, because anything is better than 8 amiright? Hell, Windows ME want even that bad. This was a good move. We had a start menu, we had things that worked, shit like that.
That was right until the last update. Her computer took a dive, nothing. I need to make a recover disk. Microsoft can’t fit a Twitter disk in less than 4.4GB. I need to make it bootable the way that secure boot wants. I can’t even enter safe mode without power cycling until it gets the idea. Once I get a USB disk booting under secure boot, every time I tried to repair the installation, it would reboot, switch the USB to no longer be the primary boot media. Finally I find the right combination. I have a fresh Windows 10 install, I find the right menu options to do a fresh install. I move her old files to the new locations. I install the dictate she needs and we’re go.
But why did I have to all this.
So now, once we no longer having to deal with the day to day paperwork of whatever teacher or clinical site, the Wif is starting to think, why not Open Source.
It’s shower and a beer time for me.
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