A Windows user tries out Linux Mint

On 27Mar2021, Linux Mint ate Microsoft Windows 10 on Legolas. Three months on, I conclude beyond any doubt that wiping out Windows was the best decision I ever made. The second best decision I ever made was to test Linux Mint in Virtual Box five years ago. The third best decision I ever made was to take ownership of the learning curve that migrating in Windows really entails. A quick reminder: what’s Microsoft Windows like nowadays? I still need to use Windows at work. I cannot easily describe how painful it now is to use Windows. So I’ll try to describe it difficultly. My work machine is a powerful beast, but it exhibits constant latency. For a keyboard-orientated power user, this means that some keystrokes go walkabouts when other services on the Windows machine go to nuclear war with each other, scrambling to feed their narcissistic self-importance for besieged system resources wholly at the user’s expense. Something on Windows tends to clear the keyboard buffer randomly, resulting

Life got a little bit busy in 2020.  Can't think why.  It might be something do with the world throwing its brains out of the window and doing the proverbial headless chickens about a supposed disease with a measurable mortality rate so low that, of course , it justifies nonsense because, after all, we need to abolish death by natural causes.  Even though the same promoters of this nonsense also believe that the world is overpopulated.  Go figure. So the game is back on to move away from Microsoft.  And also from other mainstream IT providers.  They all seem to want to engage heavily in "cancel culture".