{"id":3493,"date":"2026-03-27T07:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:23:36","slug":"see-ya-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/see-ya-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"See ya&#8217; Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I build me a big, badass, state-of-the-art, Intel i9 PC on July 11, 2025. I mean this thing had everything, fastest processor you could buy at the time, water cooled, loaded with 64 GB of RAM and everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I loaded it with a shiny new copy of Windows 11 because it was included, and well, it ran until today.  Windows took a shit and I could barley get it to boot long enough to move all my documents and files off to the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See ya&#8217; Microsoft, I am going back to Linux.  I gave you a chance but windows is still shit.  I should have known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I reformatted, loaded Ubuntu 26.04 (Beta) and man, what a difference.  What was I even thinking?  The speed, the power, the reliability, ahhh &#8211; it&#8217;s all back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The beauty and simplicity of Linux, unbeatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ya know the biggest thing I hated about windows, fricking one-drive and everything being replicated here, there, everywhere.  Is it on my computer? Is it in the cloud, did it somehow get migrated to the toilet for safe sotrage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m out Microsoft, don&#8217;t thin I will be looking back either&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See ya&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day 86 \u2014 The 1-hour advantage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One focused hour<br>beats a distracted day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Johnstown Technology Partners<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/johnstowntechnology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/johnstowntechnology.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Colorado&#8217;s Premier Computer Repair Experts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast, honest, and reliable IT solutions for Johnstown and beyond. 30+ years of expertise in computer repair and data recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I build me a big, badass, state-of-the-art, Intel i9 PC on July 11, 2025. I mean this thing had everything, fastest processor you could buy at the time, water cooled, loaded with 64 GB of RAM and everything. I loaded it with a shiny new copy of Windows 11 because it was included, and well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}