It’s seriously hilarious to me that something like Linux will literally let you uninstall the bootloader and reboot without installing a new one and won’t say shit about it. :D
It’s by design. What if I boot from USB? Then what’s on the disk is irrelevant. I can boot a kernel off a USB drive and chroot into any drive i feel like. Hell, I could boot from a USB and then chroot into my broken drive and reinstall the bootloader without having to reinstall the OS.
Lets see MS pull that off. I bet once you corrupt the registry enough you have no choice but to reformat and start over.
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.
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.
It’s seriously hilarious to me that something like Linux will literally let you uninstall the bootloader and reboot without installing a new one and won’t say shit about it. :D
It’s by design. What if I boot from USB? Then what’s on the disk is irrelevant. I can boot a kernel off a USB drive and chroot into any drive i feel like. Hell, I could boot from a USB and then chroot into my broken drive and reinstall the bootloader without having to reinstall the OS.
Lets see MS pull that off. I bet once you corrupt the registry enough you have no choice but to reformat and start over.
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Man I forgot that you can’t even import backed-up profiles into a new Windows install.
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.
I dont have a fucking clue what any of that dumb shit means.
I copy /home/me over — I copy it back
FOSS LIFE
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?
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.