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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I recently discovered that Rufus has an option to set up a Windows ISO as "Windows on the go" so I dug out an old 500Gb SSD that had a USB adapter with it and installed Windows on that. So now instead of dual booting I can just hit F12 and boot from USB on the rare occasions when I need to run something in Windows.

It's also quite satisfying to be able to physically remove Windows and shove it into a drawer when it goes full Windows too lol.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

God, I'd have a back up in case I went full office space.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

I pretty much did just go full office space on it lol. Here's a fun thing I just learned:

Windows 11 apparently defaults to a tiny fraction of space for system restore points, and if it runs out of space it just deletes the old ones without asking or telling you. Because it defaults to a tiny amount of space, it apparently only ever keeps one system restore point on hand.

This means I made a manual one on a clean install when I'd got my settings sorted, so I can hop back to that when Windows inevitably fucks up. But because it's Windows, what it did was apply a big update, fuck it up, then save that fuck up as the only restore point.

I restored it anyway just to see what would happen, and that broke even more stuff. Back in the drawer!

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
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