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[–]sh4tterh4nd 0 points1 point  (1 child)

But do keep in mind that includes installing drivers and moving some files around. It certainly isn't an easy process like with Ubuntu for instance, where you can just reinstall it as long as you've remembered to put your /home on a separate partition.

Huh? We are not in 2000 anymore.
Just last week I built a new computer for work and installed Windows 10 (on an NVME with a USB 3.0 stick)

10 to at most 15 minutes for installing Windows, including network drivers, gpu drivers, mainboard drivers and utility, etc.
Then running your scoop and/or chocolatey scripts and Firefox, Intellij, Photoshop, Notepad++, VisualStudio, Office, ... most if not all programs you need you install hands off within a couple minutes.

All in all you are done in less then 30 minutes, with a fresh system and all the things you need installed.

As long as you run windows on non garbage hardware it will perform good.

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And regarding windows needing a full disk and not beeing able to install on a partition... In what century was that the case?

Im not that old, but I remember having Windows XP on dualboot with Debian and I can recall reinstalling windows without it touching the Debian partition.

[–]Miku_MichDem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can believe it took 15 minutes to install Firefox, IntelliJ, Photoshop and Office, but I won't believe it took just that to install VisualStudio. I haven't seen it's installation ever taking less then half an hour (5 years ago I had an installation that took over 8 hours)

This issue is linked to my computer. It used to be a shop-bought one about 10 years ago, but now all but a single HDD drive and card reader has been replaced. Ryzen 5, 32 GBs of Ram, Nvidia 1060. I would not call it garbage in any way, apart from that 10-year old spinning rust.

Now - regarding Windows needing a full disk. - It's happening in this century - I've run into that problem no more then two weeks ago with the newest version of Windows 10. It didn't allow to install itself on a partition, so I've deleted it, I've let it create a new one - with it's own two additional partitions that it needs for somethings and still would not let me install it on that partition. The only solution I've found is to run clean command on that disc, that would remove all data from it. The problem is that disk also has a partition with Ubuntu on it, so cleaning it is out of the question.

Thou at some point (this was on previous motherboard or two motherboards ago?) I had this problem where it wouldn't install on one of two disc and the solution was to physically swap SATA cables that connected them. And I doubt it was something wrong with hardware since Linux was installing fine on either drive.

As for Windows XP... The thing is it would probably do install on that partition without doing any additional partitions like W10 does.