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A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"
If you're reinstalling windows just move to linux
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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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!
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.
gottem
No thanks. That's for my servers.
i pity your poor soul
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)
Nice mate, saving that one for later.
There are two types of people:
- Those who backup
- Those who will do backups
Backups?
Your files should always be on another partition than your system. I relocate user folders (documents, pictures, etc.) to a dedicated partition. It saves a lot of time when you have to reinstall.
Dunno about OP but if I reinstall windows, that's my nuclear version of cleaning files xD
Save what's critical, nuke the rest, start fresh. Habit from the old days but still works and feels good.
Ideally, separate physical drive.
I wouldn't trust windows install enough to do that lol
Same. I'd still back everything up.
Moving the two copies to the same drive? Is that the famous YOLO backup strategy?
You guys can store all your files on a USB?
Most of the important ones.
I have a great pitch for a really boring reality TV show! Data hoarders. Someone goes through, on remote connection services, someones collection of files and helps the person delete all the data that the user has been hoarding!
You can take the MS Paint drawings I made when I was 7 from my cold, dead hands, you monster.
Very easily
I just did the same thing, but I have all my files on other drives so if I nuke the OS I just have to copy over some programs and settings again. Makes it much easier, especially with Steam so I don’t have to redownload everything.
lol
So, uh... what's the dude on the left doing? There's a long haired individual looking away in disgust, so I'm not sure it's kosher.
re?? installing? windows??!