Transcript
A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
339 points (97.7% liked)
iiiiiiitttttttttttt
1027 readers
5 users here now
you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
A community for memes and posts about tech and IT related rage.
founded 4 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If you're reinstalling windows just move to linux
I would have by now if I didn't need some crappy software that doesn't work on linux.
don't downvote this poor poster, he might be a farmer with a John Deere tractor
if he replies that it isn't a tractor situation, then everyone get mad
It is not a tractor situation, but I do have an uncle who lives near me (about ~800 meters) who needs windows for some lely software on his farm.
That sucks. Not even through wine?
I don't remember what it is called but someone is working on a seamless VM launcher that runs windows in the back ground and launches the app like a native windows program.
Not that interested myself since everything I need runs in Linux just fine and it sounds like it would be a slow heavy "program" to launch but it's still gonna remove the last excuse.
Winapps or WinBoat, both seem pretty promising but they're very early in the development process. They're not overly heavy, from what I've remember, just like 4GB of RAM and 20GB of drive space. I'm excited to see where those projects are in like, a year or so!
I was playing with WinBoat yesterday. Its pretty cool. Yes, very light and seemed to function very well.
Navigating around is...unique... As you are accessing folders via 2 OS structures, so not as seamless as in workflows but nothing is really in the way. But counter argument is that running a standard windows VM is not really any more of a hassle.
I'm more concerned with the windows privacy aspects while it runs, but to get into it I need to activate windows which I'm not going to do for a testing scenario.
It's far too early to have an opinion on it though, so I'm equally looking forward to what a year or two will bring.
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
CC: @irelephant@programming.dev
That's hella exciting to me. I've almost exclusively used Linux for about a decade now, and I've never been able to get wine to work- I used to dual boot, but nowadays I just don't use anything that won't run on Linux without a VM
What couldn't you get to work with wine?
I don't remember what all I tried, since it's been years since I gave it a shot, and the things I was trying to use were things I decided I could live without
It's an UWP app, so yeah.
you should look at stuff like Winboat or Winapps! they use containers and VMs, so they can get a lot of stuff running that WINE can’t
it’s not perfect, and idk if it’ll work for you, but it’s worth looking at imo
Does it let you log in with an enterprise account? because I need to be able to do that as well.
not sure about that, but Winboat at least let me log in to my microsoft account and let me download games i had bought on there
its a VM, so if you can do something in a VM, chances are you’ll be able to do it there
It seems cool, but is probably too janky for me.
No thanks. That's for my servers.
i pity your poor soul
gottem
But then I have to spend the next week moving file between drives to I can format them away from NTFS.
Linux can read and write NTFS just fine. I've been using that functionality for years.
Unless they’re the ones that store your Steam library.
And that is my use case.
Ditto.
That okay, I haven’t used Windows at home in years.
Here’s a tool that does an in-place conversion to btrfs (and keeps an image of the original partition saved after it’s done)
https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs
Nice mate, saving that one for later.