Windows Install

Everything is built, and it boots.

The plan is:
Win10 Pro: 500GB M2 SSD
Ubuntu 18.04: 250GB M2 NVME
Docs and near time info: 1TB SSD
Large files I rarely need: 3TB Toshiba HDD

It's midnight on a Friday. Let's install Windows 10!

I already prepared a USB stick with the Windows installer, the machine is in the living room, so I grabbed a keyboard and mouse, plugged the machine in to the TV, and set everything going.

Windows was surprisingly fast and straight forward to install. I know it's never been a particularly unpleasant install, but i remember it taking way longer. Possibly that's down to the SSD, CPU and ram improvements since i last installed. I used to manage a test lab with plenty of machines, and plenty of OS variants (back in the OS/2 warp and NT4 days, I guess that would have been just before Win2K) - but I either prepared install scripts and let them run (NT4), or used ghost to drop clones on to machines. They were pretty quick installs, but just a vanilla Win10 Pro install seems about as straightforward nowadays.

Windows installed, everything seemed to work. Update to Chrome, grab Anaconda and run a couple of training items. Everything seems to be in order and mighty snappy. Time to sleep!

(The next posts I've written are getting tensorflow running - that is all on Ubuntu. I did the Ubunut install the next day, and it went smoothly enough. I may throw upa short post on that at some point, but more likely on my initial thoughts of Ubuntu.)