Goodbye Windows 10, welcome Linux Mint 22

Awake and posting today's YouTube Morning Prayer link to Parish WhatsApp just before 'Thought for the Day' in which Paula Gooder spoke about Don Cupitt, controversial philosophical theologian, who has just died aged 90, man who asked questions which certainly rattled the cage of conservative traditionalists who think the have all the answers to questions of faith. He was labelled 'the atheist priest', for exposing the weakness of theism as a way of thinking about as inherited by traditional Christianity. I admit that what he wrote was too much like hard work for me, though the proposition that Christ's disciples should seek the divine above and beyond all accepted concepts of God, wasn't new to me from my own encounters with Eastern Orthodox mystical spirituality, the idea that the divine is unlike anything else in our experience, so we cannot say God is like this or that. We don't know. Unknowing is where we start seeking, desire and ardent longing is all we have. "we go by night, with only our thirst to light the way" as Sta Teresa said.

I went to the Eucharist at St Catherine's. We were ten this morning, including baby Seb, who gives a lot of pleasure to the grandparents who comprise the majority of the congregation. I picked up the veggie bag on the way home, and shared cooking lunch with Clare. I slept for over an hour after lunch, and then went for a circuit of the parks. It was cold, but late afternoon sunshine and clouds coloured by the sun as it reached the horizon were an added pleasure.

After supper, I installed Linux Mint 22.1 on my desktop workstation. It took about a quarter of an hour. Updating took longer. I needed to install Chrome and Audacity as a first step to my normal desktop apps. Transferring Chrome's bookmarks and passwords was more fiddly than I recall, and then my documents, which took somewhat longer. I decided which photo and video editors to use and installed them. As the workstation is fairly powerful, it'll be possible to use apps I've not bothered with before. There are new things to learn ahead, but for most everyday tasks, I'm up and running already. This new version of Mint is quick and good to look at. At last I'm free from Windows nags and forced hardware redundancy. Getting it all shipshape took less than three hours in total. Time for bed now.