I installed Xubuntu Linux the day before yesterday on a brand new Windows 8.1 (dual boot). When I got home last night from our Bible study, I found a note on another computer telling me Windows 10 had downloaded and the computer was ready to be updated. I started the install, then went off and did something else for a bit. I think the whole process took my computer about half an hour. I tested a few things without any trouble–I will have to do that more extensively tonight, but it actually looks fine for my most important stuff. Neither of the installations were any trouble at all. They just worked.
What struck me as odd is that I can do just about everything I want to do on both the Linux box and Windows box without any trepidation or confusion. Both are intuitive and just do all the things I want to do. Even more odd, I do not care that much whether I am on one or the other. They really are just appliances to me. I do not know whether that is a good thing or a bad thing. The days of extreme enthusiasm for one OS over another appear to be over for me. The only time I notice is when the computer does not do something I think it should. Now, my only considerations are utility and cost, in that order. It is like when I go older, I quit buying cars because they were really fast and looked fancy and started buying them based on comfort, price and utility.
Found a great little article on what to do right after Windows 10 is installed for the first time. I hate it that all these guys spy on us. Also, go to this page and opt-out of the personalized ads for “this” browser and opt-out of the personalized adds from your Microsoft account. If you do not do that, Microsoft will track way more stuff than you want them to track.
Betty Blonde #389 – 01/12/2010
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