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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you know how to transfer the files back if your OS has completely failed?

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure, nearly everything is on a separate drive from the OS. I don’t put much on the OS drive on any of my computers unless it needs to run there and that’s easy to reinstall. Easy to fix things that way.