Our friend, Bonnie, picked up the computer that arrived at our house when we were off visiting in Boston and Tempe last week. Lorena met with her for lunch yesterday to pick it up. It is a beautiful, brand new, Dell 5491 14″ touchscreen, i7 laptop with all the requisite amounts of memory and drive space to work on the relatively large images with which I work in my job. I love the computer, but it is a hassle to switch all the work I have been doing on the personal computer I used while I waited for my work computer.
First, I am reminded of the invasive nature of Windows (not to suggest Apple is any less so–they are probably even worse). I work in Linux, so I have to install that, but leave the computer dual-booted because I write cross-platform software. Then, I need to install Qt, OpenCV, Boost, and a ton of tools like Gimp, ImageJ, Filezilla, the Brave browser, Git, VirtualBox, etc, etc, etc. AND then I get to do it all again so all this stuff is available on both Windows and Linux. It will be really nice when it is complete, but it will be a full day of work to be up and running where I was with the previous computer.
I am not complaining TOO much–it will be really nice when I am up and running and I really do not mind the kind of brain-dead work, but I lose a day and there is a lot to do.