Friday Watercooler: My Divorce from Windows
- By Rick Butler
- CIN Open Forums
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Counseling? Nah. I'll just convince any therapist that Linux is better and Microsoft will lose more business - which...may not be a half bad idea.Great read @Rick Butler please keep us updated on the progress. Have you considered counseling for the breakup? I know a lot of folks who have tried to go the split up route route only to make amends and go back to Windows. Redmond does seem to have a way of bringing the heartbroken back to Windows, (insert evil laugh).![]()
Mostly, those that slink back to Windows usually aren't ready for the commitment of having to relearn all the muscle memory keystrokes and shortcuts for workflows. It's either that or folks get discouraged when they run into a technical problem that would require them to fix it - where Microsoft would just fix it automagically.
For example, I have a WD19 dock to connect up my secondary displays. Well, one fine morning, Ubuntu did a kernel update and both my displays were no longer working. Dock was working fine, but turns out that the update to -30 had issues with nVidia drivers...so I had to bring it back to -29, set GRUB to boot -29, and periodically test to see if updates cleared things up (which it did in a couple weeks).
One thing about Windows - at least you don't see that kind of driver madness. But then, with Windows pulling all the v3/v4 drivers out of Windows Update, it means we get to go back to the good old days when you downloaded and installed drivers to machines.
There's always something. But I'm still just as Resolute (Raccoon) as I was before.
Fun fact - my son also made the jump over to Ubuntu at just about the same time I did. We didn't even coordinate it - we just did it. And why, because of 'Copilot...friggin Copilot'. #ProudDad
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