A week of installs has made me realize that, yeah, if you hate system troubleshooting buy a Mac. Feels to me, about ten times worse, but I think a lot of that is my knowledge of the Mac and ignorance of Windows. Maybe Windows, underneath that, is twice as bad.
They’re both micro-kernal based OSes that work pretty well, with command line interfaces that can be used to shove the GUI out of the way to fix some stuff. Both platforms make the OSes we used to use look like stone knives and bear skins.
I’m using the same monitor on both systems in terms of size and resolution. The same Wacom tablet.
But now, I want to take a break from the 3D (I didn’t get more than a few hours past the system building and installs and widows troubleshooting.) and write more. I plotted the first day of nano-wrimo, and daydreamed. Now I have to start writing words, and finding the real story on the page.
I look forward to paying my son to troubleshoot this system while I work on my mac upstairs; my version of the sports car that sits in the shop while you drive your boring car. This was not an option ten years ago. For now, it’s a work around. Get me past my disgust for ugly text based error screens and maddening incompatibilities.
Windows 11 was breaking AMD processors, making them run 30% slower than comparable intel chips. Oops. Probably should have bought wintel. In the wonderful freedom of building machines from scratch, with windows, some parts are more equal than others.
Oh, this post was written on the PC. I can’t reach into my iphoto cloud storage and pull a photo in easily. Hm. I’ll have to look into the icloud interface… ugh. Web-based. Only Google can make a web-based application feel as good as a desktop app. (gmail.)
