So for a while I was lamenting the failure of the 1TB Toshiba SATA drive on my Dell laptop. Only two years old and throwing a failure to boot. So rather than doing it right and replacing it, I took the easy and cheap way out, mothballed it and cranked up the old Dell Inspiron 1420 with a Fedora Linux derivative call Chapeau that figure out how get the Broadcom WiFi operating – something I had only gotten to do once with an Ubuntu distro.

Needless to say, the old 1420 with the Pentium Dual Core was nothing like the i5 laptop. But with Linux is sufficed. But life is too short to fight Linux. As much as I admire the independence of FOSS, getting even easy things like Conky to work right was downright painful. And don’t get me started about having to use the abomination called PlayOnLinux and Wine to run a PC game. Aweful.

So what does this have to do with Vivaldi. Nothing except for the time sink that was Linux on the old machine. Really pushed me to run to MicroCenter in St. David’s, PA to get a new SATA drive and reinstall Windows 10. And now I can focus on playing with Vivaldi again.

Some excuse eh? Not a good one. Really, I spend far too much time playing Eve Online on my dedicated gaming machine. Now that game is a serious time sink.

Ok, back to blogging…