> Why is Windows a nightmare? This just happened. (It’s the reason I’m on HN rather than working right now.) - I get up at 5am to do some early work. - Work

> Why is Windows a nightmare? This just happened. (It’s the reason I’m on HN rather than working right now.) - I get up at 5am to do some early work. - Work laptop (Win10) is still connected to the VPN from yesterday. Cool. - Try to connect to drive. No dice. Try same drive in SharePoint. Failed auth. Reconnect VPN. Same. Oh well, guess I’ll reboot. - Reboot. Go to make coffee. - Come back to black screen. Ah yes, that’s right. If I reboot and McAfee drive encryption has kicked in, and I’m plugged in to my USB-C monitor, all screens are just black. The solution is to... - ...pull the monitor cable, power down the laptop, power it back up, authenticate with McAfee, plug the monitor in, let Windows start, check HN, reply to this post. I know this latter half isn’t Windows’ fault, strictly speaking. But it’s the Wintel laptop’s fault and that’s all the same to me. I hate using Windows. It’s easily the thing I dislike most about my job. Let’s just try my Mac over here, hang on. I’ll open the lid. Yep, worked.