Digital Prepping

Preparing the move.. daunting!

Having worked in the IT industry for many years at this point, you'd think that this type of thing would be an old hat?

I, like many others, are looking down the barrel of the upcoming end of life for Windows 10. I am adamantly against Windows 11 and their spyware capabilities, so I am ending my personal participation in the Windows ecosystem after this transpires.

There are for sure certain things that will be more vulnerable as time goes on, so it's a good idea to get off the old operating system once patches are no longer being delivered for it. Now, I know that it's not realistic to be able to do it IMMEDIATELY at the day of EOL being declared.. but I am trying to get prepared.

It's like any software, server or data migration. You have to take all of the data with you and then figure out how to get it on the other side in an operational state. Ideally you have a situation where you can test it first, but that's not always the case.

For me, I'm unfortunately not able to really test it. I am going to have to go with the hard cutover path, which can be bumpy as shit for sure hahaha. I have been putting together a little cutover checklist for myself, as any good project manager would do!

The cutover checklist is helping me mentally process the situation. I know that I've got to do X, Y and Z things first in order to be able to make the switch successfully. How successful is to be determined of course.. but I know that I am going to have to kind-of treat it like a vacation that I've had in the past on Hive.

Yes I've heard it many times, the posting doesn't matter. I can agree with that, but it's a habit and an enjoyable one. I would rather keep the habit going and not have an interruption on it, but I have to also plan there may be a temporary interruption. Planning out some content that I've got written down is going to be the best way to do that.. and I know I've got lots of shit to get written!

With the checklist though, I think the important thing is having some sort of written note for the damn thing. I can certainly think of plenty of things for me to be doing, but at the same time, it's important to have it written down. We will for sure come up with other things as we go along, so it helps to have notes.

What about you, are you doing anything different after the Windows 10 end of life? Are you going to Windows 11, or Linux? Let me know in the comments!