I f*cking hate windows(love/ hate abusive relationship for sure). All my installs fail or get corrupted. No matter how careful i am.
I keep nothing on the C: drive. All my data on separate drives. I backup my windows drive monthly in fear that my PC might decide to brick itself after a bad update or faulty shutdown.
As I type this,my desktop no longer booting and its been “attempting to repair windows” for 3hrs now. Good thing i made a backup on a separate drive 2 months ago, lol.
Anyone else here instinctively take measures to hedge against windows unreliability??
Anyone else here instinctively take measures to hedge against windows unreliability??
Yes, I install Linux.
More helpful advice, I separate my data from my machine (or at least I am working too). I should be able to reinstall my OS without altering or touching my data.
have used windows 7 to upgrade to now 10 on my computer since 2016 daily and usually on 24/7. Had power outages suddenly with updates pending and still going strong.
you must be doing something wrong.
My data does not even live on the same device as my Windows OS. At least most of it. This makes swapping between PCs and Backups just easier.
I must say WIndows works mostly fine for me. Yes it definitely has some bugs but the last time I had to reinstall my own machine was in the Windows 7 days. Depends also on what hard and software you use though and how well versed with troubleshooting you are.
I mean I’ve literally never had windows fail for something that wasn’t ultimately my fault but still to keep safe I just keep my main OS and games on my M2 SSD and everything else goes on regular SATA SSDs or HDDs in my system that way if somehow windows does get completely fucked to the point where I can’t fix it I can just wipe that SSD and reinstall Windows and its games without worrying about my data on the rest of the drives being affected
And of course all my important files are backed up to my NAS and/or Dropbox
I use cloud storage for most of my documents. My NAS runs a daily job to pull down any updates. Once a month it encrypts everything and sends it up to B2. I definitely have room for improvement there and need to look at moving to daily differentials or incrementals. I’m also probably moving to glacier, unless B2 comes up with something comparable.
The only thing I do locally is video editing, because pushing lots of 4K over my 300/300 FIOS connection is an exercise in extreme patience. But once I’m done, I back that up to the NAS. From there a separate job encrypts and backs it up to B2.
So if my Windows drive got obliterated today, I wouldn’t lose anything worth saving. I’d just have to deal with a reinstall.