New year barely begun and one of my desktops decides to act up. It’s my powerful machine triple booted with [Kubuntu](http://kubuntu.org/) [CentOS](https://www.centos.org/) and Windows 10.  CentOS is the partition affected by an ongoing Nvidia driver problem.  Nvidia and Linux are frenemies.  But am keeping CentOS.  I absolutely need it to to boost up my Linux sysdamin and server maintenance skillset.  I decided to forego all that troubleshooting and just reinstall the OS.  

Advantage of having multiple machines. I can backup to another computer via [**scp**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy) easy as breathing.  Nevertheless I only needed to save a few files in the download folder.  I did that and reinstalled a crisp minimal install of CentOS 7.  No network no problem. I fired up [nmcli](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Networking/CLI) and activated my Ethernet for net access.  Did my updates and installed [KDE](https://www.kde.org/) for GUI.  Started loving KDE since installing Kubuntu on the other partition.  In the past I have always used Gnome and saw KDE as too garish.  Kubuntu definitely changed my mind.  The way it uses KDE is exquisite even nicer than on CentOS. 

So I got that sorted and it’s business as usual.  Workstation on work detail.  And play when I need them to. I need less troubleshooting in my life this year.  If it’s system admin networking stuff is all good.  The more experience I  get in that department the better.  But for mundane issues like iffy drivers and broken updates Linux better man up.  It’s 2017 high time Linux get 100% percent desktop friendly or just stop trying.  Let Mac and Windows do it and stick to server, embedded systems, IoT and mobile.  I will never stop running Linux on the desktop but am not sure the average user will stick with it or even get on board if mundane issues continue to plague the OS. Users just want things to work. Not everyone is a Geek.

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