Back on Windows
Over the past month my Fedora installation got increasingly unstable- hardware glitches, randomly losing internet, not entering sleep mode. Yesterday I got fed up and decided to switch to Ubuntu. After the install failing twice and succeeding once but having even worse glitches, I gave up on Linux. I'm back to Windows for the time being. Looking forward to remembering why I hate Windows, too. Transferring over has been mostly smooth, except for one small hitch: my hardware backup of my website was corrupted. I lost everything.
This is why you have two backups.
I also keep my site on GitHub. On git pull and I'm back! Wait no I still can't run it. See Hugo lets you use different themes by having you clone them as submodules. This means that the theme wasn't part of the initial clone. But I couldn't clone it again. I got my theme three years ago and the more recent versions of it break stuff, so I was on the older version. The commit of which no longer seems to be on GitHub. Somehow. So I have my content, but can't actually build it.
This is why you have three backups.
I was also experimenting with Fossil at the time. Fossil is a DVCS based on Sqlite instead of filesystems. It's pretty cool! It also doesn't care at all about git submodules so stored them in the database. I was able to extract my theme from that.
I'm still not 100% back, but most of my tools are here again. Some immediate thoughts on Windows:
- Powershell is a lot more pleasant than bash, but I also barely know it. Relearning how to shellscript is going to be a pain.
- I am not looking forward to being a second-class citizen in the programming world. WSL is going to help, but ugh.
- Due to partitioning shenanigans, my C: is only 40 Gb, with the rest of my space being in D:. Unsure how this is going to mess things up, but it probably will somehow. Computers are bad!
- Everything feels a lot snappier than Fedora did. I don't know if it's because Windows has improved, because I'm on a fresh install, or because Linux was just that bad at using the hardware.
- Thing I'm most looking forward to: I'm gonna have AutoHotkey again. AHK was one of the things I missed most about not being on Windows. It gave me configurability and control over my own work environment in a way that Linux couldn't match. Or at least, match without me spending way too much time becoming a Linux expert. I just added a key binding to write ∃. It took me five seconds! I could never figure out how to do that with Linux without going deep into the keyboard mappings. I love love love AutoHotkey.
- Thing I'm least looking forward to: I didn't have Steam on my linux config. Now I can play Factorio whenever I want. I'm gonna play waaaaaaaaaay too much Factorio and it's going to get in the way of working, I know.
Welp back to reinstalling everything! Time to rediscover why I switched to Linux in the first place
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