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I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The trick is to

dump your personal files into a seperate, non OS hard drive so that if shit hits the bricks, you have a parachute.

Ask me how I know.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Backups are a good idea.

[–] Nugscree@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Also one backup is no backup, ask me how I know :,)

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Or you can do like I did and simply put an extra hard drive in, load Linux on it. Then use your old Windows hard drive as a storage drive. For the first couple of weeks it was a nice safety blanket to have.

Oh, and if your PC doesn't have the room inside for an extra hard drive. Make it an external.