Journal GeckoFood's Journal: [geek + misc] Still Alive, Hating Windows 10 2
It has been forever since I have posted here. Well, 3+ years anyway. Slashdot has worked hard to drive away the user base, but even so I am still here, plodding along (quietly most of the time).
Windows 10 is here. It's pretty. It's friendly. It's nefarious software that now shows ads on the lock screen unless you burrow down to turn it off. It saves your passwords to third-party websites on a centralized server somewhere (which I found out when I got a new computer a few days ago and logged into Amazon and it auto-filled my email address and my password for me even though it the the first log-in ever from that system). Tablet mode blows. I actually did not mind Windows 8 and 8.1 (I think I am one of 3 people that was ok with it on a touch-screen laptop). It's fast (kinda) but it blue screens just like every other version of Windows.
My old system is getting a transplant and I am making some computing changes. No more Windows on the Dell - period. I'm dropping in an SSD, loading up CentOS 7 and calling it a day. I can do everything I need on Linux with only a couple of exceptions, and that is why I will have the new system standing by to run Windows â" to support the few apps I cannot work without. Once I get CrossOver working with those apps or I find replacement apps that fill the same need and work the same way, the new system gets redone as well.
The password thing is a special headache. Now that I know for sure that Microsoft is saving all of my log-ins from the Windows machine, all of those passwords need to change. This thrills me to no end.
So, where am I these days? Still on the east coast, still working in Linux full-time and still baking bread. I am no longer a slave to the same s**t company and the douchebag manager I served last time I posted and I have been in a much better role since the spring of 2014. Kiddo off to college, another on a competitive basketball team.
All is well, I suppose.
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I have been doing more bread baking, but not as much as I used to when I posted more. I have been getting more consistent with it now. It's still very relaxing.