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A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"

A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"

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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

There are two types of people:

  • Those who backup
  • Those who will do backups
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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    If you're reinstalling windows just move to linux

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I would have by now if I didn't need some crappy software that doesn't work on linux.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    That sucks. Not even through wine?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't remember what it is called but someone is working on a seamless VM launcher that runs windows in the back ground and launches the app like a native windows program.

    Not that interested myself since everything I need runs in Linux just fine and it sounds like it would be a slow heavy "program" to launch but it's still gonna remove the last excuse.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Winapps or WinBoat, both seem pretty promising but they're very early in the development process. They're not overly heavy, from what I've remember, just like 4GB of RAM and 20GB of drive space. I'm excited to see where those projects are in like, a year or so!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I was playing with WinBoat yesterday. Its pretty cool. Yes, very light and seemed to function very well.

    Navigating around is...unique... As you are accessing folders via 2 OS structures, so not as seamless as in workflows but nothing is really in the way. But counter argument is that running a standard windows VM is not really any more of a hassle.

    I'm more concerned with the windows privacy aspects while it runs, but to get into it I need to activate windows which I'm not going to do for a testing scenario.

    It's far too early to have an opinion on it though, so I'm equally looking forward to what a year or two will bring.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's hella exciting to me. I've almost exclusively used Linux for about a decade now, and I've never been able to get wine to work- I used to dual boot, but nowadays I just don't use anything that won't run on Linux without a VM

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    you should look at stuff like Winboat or Winapps! they use containers and VMs, so they can get a lot of stuff running that WINE can’t

    it’s not perfect, and idk if it’ll work for you, but it’s worth looking at imo

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Does it let you log in with an enterprise account? because I need to be able to do that as well.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    But then I have to spend the next week moving file between drives to I can format them away from NTFS.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Linux can read and write NTFS just fine. I've been using that functionality for years.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Your files should always be on another partition than your system. I relocate user folders (documents, pictures, etc.) to a dedicated partition. It saves a lot of time when you have to reinstall.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Dunno about OP but if I reinstall windows, that's my nuclear version of cleaning files xD

    Save what's critical, nuke the rest, start fresh. Habit from the old days but still works and feels good.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Moving the two copies to the same drive? Is that the famous YOLO backup strategy?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You guys can store all your files on a USB?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have a great pitch for a really boring reality TV show! Data hoarders. Someone goes through, on remote connection services, someones collection of files and helps the person delete all the data that the user has been hoarding!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    re?? installing? windows??!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    So, uh... what's the dude on the left doing? There's a long haired individual looking away in disgust, so I'm not sure it's kosher.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Most window users have their data split into onedrive ish they don't care for since onedrive is unpredictable and non-onedrive ish they should prolly backup but meh, why not just wait til you're forced to reinstall or update again?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I just did the same thing, but I have all my files on other drives so if I nuke the OS I just have to copy over some programs and settings again. Makes it much easier, especially with Steam so I don’t have to redownload everything.

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    [+] -6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Because some religious nazis can't do a fucking thing without thinking of a religious genocide.

    Files on an ark? Fuck you.

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