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aniki@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Tips to avoid destroying a partition and having to reinstall the os?

Start with a file system that doesn’t suck, like ext4, bless the drive with a boot loader that doesn’t suck, like Grub, and then get yourself a kernel that doesn’t suck, like GNU/Linux, then get yourself a software stack that doesn’t suck, like Arch.

I use Arch, BTW.

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FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
OP asked "how can I accomplish goal X?"

You responded "Goal X sucks, you should accomplish goal Y instead!"

That's not exactly useful.

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- aniki@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No shit, Sherlock. I’m not trying to be helpful.
  
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- SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They can avoid needing to repeatedly reinstall the OS by selecting a more stable OS.
  
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  - neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Arch is not a more stable OS.
    
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    SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No, not Arch. But maybe Mint.
    
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  - wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They don’t need to reinstall the OS to resolve this issue though, unless they absolutely fucked their paritions.
    
    Which is why Microsoft couldn’t automate a fix. It’s incredibly easy to fuck your partitions to hell and back, especially through Windows. Too many conditions to check for and try to handle automatically.
    
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    NekkoDroid@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    It’s incredibly easy to fuck your partitions to hell and back, especially through Windows.
    
    Fun fact: Windows won’t allow you to delete any EFI partition (that is the only one I know of/tried) unless its through diskpart with a specific override/force option.
    
    But then again, I somehow nuked my recovery partition by accident at some point as well.
    
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  - FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And if they're having trouble with their car they could just hire a taxi. But they're trying to fix their car so telling them to hire a taxi is useless advice.
    
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    SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They said OS, not Windows.
    
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NekkoDroid@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

bless the drive with a boot loader that doesn’t suck, like Grub

Ah yes, I need a whole separate OS just to boot my actual OS…

I would in no world call GRUB a bootloader that doesn’t suck.

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