Well, I’ve got about two-thirds of the WP computer work done I’ve been working on over the past couple of weeks.
The main Weekend Pundit Linux desktop is up and running again and had most of the backup files copied over from the backup drive. I didn’t copy all files as I wanted to retain more free disk space. The older files I rarely access are going to remain on the backup drives.(I have three of those, one of which will soon be residing at my Dear Brother’s home as we both believe in at least one copy off-site just in case the worse happens.)
One of the Weekend Pundit Linux laptops has had the OS reloaded and configured. I have not yet restored the files via the backup drive because I want to make sure the installation is stable. The laptop required a new hard drive because the old one failed. It took a little time to figure that out because it wasn’t a hard failure, meaning that sometimes it would boot properly, then crash sometime later. At other times it wouldn’t boot at all. It seems to work fine now.
A week ago I delved into why it’s time to dump Windows 11. Nothing has happened to change my mind about this. In fact, I have been having discussions with the IT department where I work about switching over to Linux from Windows 11. This is not a new discussion as I have been making the case for the change for a couple of years now. The IT guys brushed me off back then. But lately that has changed as they have been seeing the same thing so many others have been seeing, particularly seeing just how intrusive Windows 11 has become. We also had issues with programs that ran well on Windows 7 and Windows 10 not running well or not running at all under Windows 11. Quite a few programs require new drivers to interface with outside equipment. Others require programming changes or a recompile to work properly. We didn’t have to do any of that for the computers we have that run Linux. (Yes, the Windows programs required a program called WINE to properly run in Linux.)
And the saga continues…
