Planet Geek!: I for one welcome our new silicon overlords.

I feel like I've taken the bluepill. All I see around me is a sham, the wool that has been pulled over my eyes.

But, ya know? It's going okay.

A grandiose change has happened to my work environment at Chez Geek. Due to the long-running contract with ${customer}, we worked out a deal where due to the instability and possible imminent death of hunter, I was issued a new laptop. The laptop, however, runs Windows, and it was made abundantly clear by said ${customer} that they'd prefer I worked in the same environment as they do, that being, of course, Windows.

So here I am, with a spanking new laptop named 'clipper', and running it as my full time primary machine. After my initial revulsion at the concept, I have to concede - it's going quite well.

I shan't go into the details of what is different between WindowsXP and Linux. That subject has been debated, chewed on, spat up, kicked about, and shot out of a cannon plenty over the last few years. But what I'm using this machine for is exactly what Microsoft has been working on for 15+ years. A stable, high powered desktop environment that can interract with a multitide of peripherals, platforms, and hardware without very little fiddling or complaints.

Over the next few weeks I'll talk more about some of the applications and challenges I've been hitting with this migration, but for now, I seem to have reached a happy detante. My view for the moment is "This is stable, it works, it does things I could not do under Linux, but I still have all the power of my Linux machines handy just a few network segments away. I can deal."

I'm sure this will be the case until I get my first virus or malware installation, but for now, I'm a happy bluepill.

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Category: Geekitude
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