Today's task was setting up a new PC for the In-Law-'Rents. Their desktop unit was a 2008 Windows Vista machine, an old Compaq, that has been gobsmackingly slow for way, way too long. And, in fact, it was slow enough that it took me about 6 hours to backup up 64Gb of data to a thumb drive.
The new machine is a low-end (but expandable) Dell unit, with Win10, and a Tb hard drive, and loading data from the same thumb drives was running at 4x the sped.
Need to finish the job tomorrow, but at the moment it's a small validation of my 1337 PC Upgrade Skillz, which is kind of nice.
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I just voided the warranty on brand new Windows 10 machine by installing Linux but still a great upgrade by comparison. BTW the old machine with a new drive would probable run Linux just dandy. The machine I am using know is 2005 Toshiba Qosimo. works great with Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit.
+Philipp Giddings Yeah … don't really need an additional Linux box.
Also upgraded a windows vista machine to Windows 10 took forever not just a while;) then because the spyware issue wiped it out as well with Mint 17.03, found it was backdoored hacked version then loaded Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit works great
+Dave Hill There never enough Linux boxes until the others have all been assimilated (borglike) LOL
Until Linux runs Call of Duty (and a lot of other games I play), it will not be on my machine. Nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't do what I want.
Better things to do with my life thatn pretend I am a killer in a virtual world
Well, one advantage to what the in-law-rents needed was that the system demands were low. They had only 86Gb of data to transfer, and don't play anything that requires bigger horsepower than Spider solitaire.
Teamviewer is your friend 🙂
+Doug Dunfee Actually, this is a lot easier since they moved to about 10 minutes away. 🙂