Windows and IT
Sep. 26th, 2025 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyI put Windows on one of my laptops last night. Why? I "interviewed" for an IT position yesterday.
The township office that Jenn works in is losing their IT guy, he's moving away. It's about an 8 hour a MONTH job. I'm already in their payroll system since I was on standby for elections last year, and I figured "eh, it's something to do that's different, and I can't imagine it's easy to try to hire someone for 2 hours a week of work."
The "interview" was just sitting down with the current guy and giving him a quick history and some war stories.
Interviews are very stress free when you absolutely don't care if you get the job or not.
But of course it's an all Windows office. My primary laptop is a utility machine used to just carry around to troubleshoot, and to provide entertainment while on the road so I don't actually care what OS it's running. I default to Linux simply because it's easier and less headache than Windows.
Surprisingly SO FAR it hasn't been difficult to get Windows installed and up to date without connecting to a Microsoft account. We'll see if that continues; Windows in my experience will just pop up in the morning and say "Time's up no more running without an account for you." at random times, forcing another fight.
The township office that Jenn works in is losing their IT guy, he's moving away. It's about an 8 hour a MONTH job. I'm already in their payroll system since I was on standby for elections last year, and I figured "eh, it's something to do that's different, and I can't imagine it's easy to try to hire someone for 2 hours a week of work."
The "interview" was just sitting down with the current guy and giving him a quick history and some war stories.
Interviews are very stress free when you absolutely don't care if you get the job or not.
But of course it's an all Windows office. My primary laptop is a utility machine used to just carry around to troubleshoot, and to provide entertainment while on the road so I don't actually care what OS it's running. I default to Linux simply because it's easier and less headache than Windows.
Surprisingly SO FAR it hasn't been difficult to get Windows installed and up to date without connecting to a Microsoft account. We'll see if that continues; Windows in my experience will just pop up in the morning and say "Time's up no more running without an account for you." at random times, forcing another fight.
