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A year and four months have passed since I joined ctrl-c.club. What happened?
I set about building my Gemini site over a year ago, but I couldn't settle on a design that a liked. I told myself that I would take a break and pick it up when I had time to clear my head. Yeah, that never happened.
A few weeks ago I set about backing up my magnetic tapes. Years of rifling through boxes had scattered my tapes about. The first thing I had to do was go through every box to gather them.
I started with the miniDV tapes. I had planned ahead years ago, purchasing a Sony DCR-TRV-33 on e-Bay to have on hand for when I got around to it. I set up one of my old PC's with a firewire connection and started the arduous task of capturing them.
While the tapes were being captured I got the itch to start going through all of my PC's and consolidating old data onto external hard drives. Upon looking at my external hard drives, I saw a need for reorganization. I had redundancies everywhere. Backup upon backup of the same data strewn about in folders of different names. The worst part was that all of my external hard drives were full because of the redundancy, and it would take some serious time to go through it all and correct the years of neglect.
As I started moving files around, my disdain for Windows 10 started to reach new heights.
Windows has a bad habit of detecting harmless script files as viruses. Imagine moving thousands of files and having them quarantined instead of being moved to their destination. This was one in a long line of so many things that finally reached its full. The bloat. The telemetry. The struggle.
Suddenly I no longer cared about the software that was keeping me tethered to Windows. All I wanted to do was erase the hard drive and install Linux, but I couldn't even do that because I had to back up my data on the Windows drive first. Argh!! lol
So many times before I've wiped Windows only to find I didn't back up some files in a folder I forgot about. This time I made sure I backed up everything.
A day or so later, after the backup was done, I erased Windows and installed Linux Mint.
Oh I had been dual booting Linux Mint for years, but Windows 10 was my mainstay, until a few days ago, when I couldn't take it anymore.
Since I've made the switch I haven't had a desire to go back to Windows. I'm set up completely and loving it.