After writing this post, I started using my old laptop, with Artengos. And it's been some time since I turned on the Acer laptop. I did try Manjaro Linux live on it via USB, and honestly browsing was much faster than on windows 10. I have moved my pictures from Amazon Drive to SmugMug, which was the main reason I decided to get a Windows (10) just because it was already on it, to automate the upload of images. As I mentioned earlier Amazon changed the plan from $12/year unlimited photo's to $59/year for 1TB. While, I probably won't reach the 1TB in say 5-10 years, I lost trust in them. Who knows when will they change again?
In the mean time, I also found a way to move my backed up images from Amazon Drive, directly into SmuMug, who I've used for quiet some time, now they will be used exclusively for my picture's/memories stories, as their service is top notch, with excellent customer support. Compared to Amazons support which is below average, it took them about 1 week to reset my account as it was hacked. Each contact from support gave me a round around the corner, and back. Until I took it to twitter, I believe then it was like 4-6 hours to resolution.
Anyhow that's my rant about my backup strategy, and reasons to dump Windows. The other, really good reason to dump it, is it's huge upgrades, that take for ever, on a low end machine. I don't have a powerhouse, I don't need one for home use, but I'd like to have something that isn't a slug. And apparently it's windows that makes it a slug. It's not made for low end Celeron machines, two cores is not enough for it. Come to think of it, my phone has more cores :P
Anyhow, I'm hoping to make the full transition back to fully linux OS at home in a month or so. Just doing the copying and moving of my more important files. My main backup strategy is Google Drive, and SmugMug for my images. I don't need more at this time. Alright :) that's it for now be back once I move totally to linux on the little Acer laptop
My blog about using Linux in a windows world as the title suggests :) and lately experimenting with Chromebook, since then I've tried using Windows 10 dual boot with Linux :) Windows 10 dumped!
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Saturday, October 14, 2017
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Chagned Laptop OS to Sabayon
I've been thinking for a while to change distributions, Ubuntu has served me well for years, but I wanted something new. I thought of OpenSuSe, but that's also a yearly, or by-yearly release. This time I wanted to move to a rolling release, bleeding edge ASAP. Kinda liked the idea. So, now the question, which distribution, Archlinux comes to mind. But I wanted something in between, bleeding edge, and a bit more user friendly, I'm lazy what can I say. Ended up choosing Sabayon, sounded good, and the install went smoothly. First boot, setup wireless, and then run the updates, now there I did something wrong, and puff the system wasn't booting to KDE anymore. Had to connect to my router directly via network cable, bummer I know. Then logged in to terminal and was able to run the update commands. And now I am using the system again. Still have a few apps that I need, like virtualbox, mount my NAS, and so on, but those are small details. The system is stable and running, and I am enjoying it so far. As a matter of fact, browsing is faster, I can't figure out why so far, or maybe it just feels faster???
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