There used to be a native tool called Windows Easy Transfer, but it was dropped in Windows 10 in favor of third-party tools like PCmover and transwiz. There is still Microsoft’s USMT, but that’s designed as an enterprise tool and I think it depends on MECM.
Similarly, in Linux, I’ve seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the easiest course of action.
The specific part I was commenting on was “Lets see MS pull that off. I bet once you corrupt the registry enough you have no choice but to reformat and start over.”. Yeah, no shit that I’ll have to reformat and start over if I start to corrupt a core part of the system.
And where did I even reference edge? I haven’t talked about edge, and uninstalling it doesn’t corrupt shit, at least for me.
And honestly, I’ve had worse problems with permissions on linux than on windows. Granted, on Windows I knew a tool from the times of windows XP that could take control of anything, but that can be applied to linux as well, without knowing the right tools, everything can be a nightmare.
Yes, Windows is a mess on it’s own league, but I like to give credit where it’s due.
Using a freshly installed linux distro and being unable to chmod anything as root is not on me, I’d say, but rather the system itself. I’ve came across that problem only one other time in my years of using linux and turns out it was because systemd was slowly but surely commiting suicide, and would eventually destroy the system due to some obscure bug at the time.
Its DIRT SIMPLE to install a fresh Linux OVER another distro and have it work just fine.
My experience tells me otherwise, but maybe it was due to the computers being either very old or very low end.
Linux can be recovered from just about any state. Windows – LOL.
I’ve had Windows work itself out more times than Linux. The only problem with linux is that you either dive into the deep end and know your way around it and fix the problems yourself, or drown. Windows was made for people with close to no tech literacy that wants something that just works, and it is good at performing that, even given all it’s flaws. Though maybe that crown will finally be stolen in a few decades with efforts like Valve’s with the steam deck.
Yep I’m well aware. I jumped on the Linux train awhile ago. It’s so freeing.
I remember when you could uninstall Internet Explorer on your own as a regular ass user. Now? Get rekt idiot you’re stuck with Edge on your system and we’re gonna regularly reset it as your default browser.
What hardcore Linux users don’t seem to really get is this: The vast majority of people who need to use computers simply do not care about anything you just said. They absolutely don’t. They simply want to press a button to boot the device, use the apps they need and maybe even play a game and that’s it. That is what Windows does for them.
The average user is overwhelmed when the desktop icons have been moved.
I love Linux and it is on a great way to being used by a wider audience and it’s great it provides the freedom it does. But it still has its quirks that makes it too hard to use for 95% of users.
But the average user is not going to uninstall their bootloader to begin with. We were talking about power users. As a power user it’s nice to be able to do whatever you want.
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There used to be a native tool called Windows Easy Transfer, but it was dropped in Windows 10 in favor of third-party tools like PCmover and transwiz. There is still Microsoft’s USMT, but that’s designed as an enterprise tool and I think it depends on MECM.
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Don’t forget to check your permissions and selinux file contexts.
I mean, there’s transfer wiz and profile wiz that’ll do it, but not any builtin tools unfortunately.
Sure, if you boot a Windows recovery image, you can do that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-bootrec-exe-in-the-windows-re-to-troubleshoot-startup-issues-902ebb04-daa3-4f90-579f-0fbf51f7dd5d
Similarly, in Linux, I’ve seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the easiest course of action.
It’s almost like every OS will have issues if you start fucking up core parts of it, who would have guessed?
Fair for a bootloader…
But calling edge “core” part is clown ass microshit for ya
The specific part I was commenting on was “Lets see MS pull that off. I bet once you corrupt the registry enough you have no choice but to reformat and start over.”. Yeah, no shit that I’ll have to reformat and start over if I start to corrupt a core part of the system.
And where did I even reference edge? I haven’t talked about edge, and uninstalling it doesn’t corrupt shit, at least for me.
And honestly, I’ve had worse problems with permissions on linux than on windows. Granted, on Windows I knew a tool from the times of windows XP that could take control of anything, but that can be applied to linux as well, without knowing the right tools, everything can be a nightmare.
Yes, Windows is a mess on it’s own league, but I like to give credit where it’s due.
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Using a freshly installed linux distro and being unable to chmod anything as root is not on me, I’d say, but rather the system itself. I’ve came across that problem only one other time in my years of using linux and turns out it was because systemd was slowly but surely commiting suicide, and would eventually destroy the system due to some obscure bug at the time.
My experience tells me otherwise, but maybe it was due to the computers being either very old or very low end.
I’ve had Windows work itself out more times than Linux. The only problem with linux is that you either dive into the deep end and know your way around it and fix the problems yourself, or drown. Windows was made for people with close to no tech literacy that wants something that just works, and it is good at performing that, even given all it’s flaws. Though maybe that crown will finally be stolen in a few decades with efforts like Valve’s with the steam deck.
Yep I’m well aware. I jumped on the Linux train awhile ago. It’s so freeing.
I remember when you could uninstall Internet Explorer on your own as a regular ass user. Now? Get rekt idiot you’re stuck with Edge on your system and we’re gonna regularly reset it as your default browser.
I’ve not had win 10 default to another browser (edge) one single time in the five or so years I have used it.
I get the windows hate, but I also hate seeing bs about shit that doesn’t happen.
I had it happen on Windows 11 after the last major feature update. :(
EDIT: I should mention this is on a laptop that isn’t my main PC.
Just because it didn’t happen to you, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen champ.
Windows 11 will toggle settings and reinstall useless shit on update.
This is common knowledge now.
What hardcore Linux users don’t seem to really get is this: The vast majority of people who need to use computers simply do not care about anything you just said. They absolutely don’t. They simply want to press a button to boot the device, use the apps they need and maybe even play a game and that’s it. That is what Windows does for them.
The average user is overwhelmed when the desktop icons have been moved.
I love Linux and it is on a great way to being used by a wider audience and it’s great it provides the freedom it does. But it still has its quirks that makes it too hard to use for 95% of users.
But the average user is not going to uninstall their bootloader to begin with. We were talking about power users. As a power user it’s nice to be able to do whatever you want.
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