Reply #23: I used to do Windoze admin

[HillWilliam]

now I sleep peacefully undisturbed the whole night through :)

We may be pushed to Vista at my day-job some time in the future. I do development for Pocket-PC's (Symbol Barcode units, Mobile 5 and 6 based). Most of that is pretty forgiving though. We're putting that off as long as possible. Even my boss hated Vista. None of the Symbol development stuff would even load on it, so that put the ky-bosh on it pretty quick.

I run my wedding business and farm stuff on Linux cuz mostly I'm way too busy to do admin stuff at home any more. I just need to fling stuff together and have it "just go". Much before Core 8 RedHat didn't have the upgrade stuff worked out, but as of Core 9 it's really sweet. Wish I had time for games (there's a megaton of them out there) but I just don't. Between choring an DUing (hey, I'm down to one vice!) I'm usually either writing or scheduling or inventorying or somedangthing.

I gave my partner (totally not computer-literate) a Linux machine of his own. He manages just fine. I manage the both from my desktop here (which is to say about zero management at all).