On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 04:06:01PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 25/08/2025 à 21:44, tito a écrit :

> > reinstalling is so windooze-like.
>
>     First I bet that this isn't the only reason why you love Linux (~: .
> Second, I beg to disagree: I didn't install Windoze for at least 30y, but I
> don't remember it was anyway as easy as Linux is nowadays. The thing which
> is Windoze-like is to reboot every time you change something to the system.

I discovered it was easier to reinstall Windows if there was a bootable Linux
around. Every time the Windows installer requested a reboot, I would boot
Linux and use it to back up the partially installed Windows system.
If I ended up with trouble in the next stage of the Windows installation,
I booted back to Linux and restored the Windows partition to a previous
not-too-bad state and resumed teh installation.

I'm not sure any more which Windows that was, but it was before XP.

-- hendrik