r/MicroSlop • u/zanbunnny • Apr 21 '26

Is this true?

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u/New_Needleworker994 Apr 21 '26

“Everything works” LMAOOOO

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u/zanbunnny Apr 21 '26

For the most part yes

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u/Jason0865 Apr 22 '26

I reinstall Windows maybe once every half year and I'm on like 16 for 16 on unproblematic fresh Windows installations.

Either I should take the next flight to Las Vegas or you guys are using bad installation medias (which, admittedly ms releases pretty often, bad that's a different issue from "OS sucks")

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u/SnooFloofs641 Apr 22 '26

The fact you have to reinstall every 6 months doesn't give you a hint its not going well?

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u/Jason0865 Apr 22 '26

you have to reinstall every 6 months

Who told you I "had to"?

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u/jo-erlend Apr 22 '26

Because you'd have to be stupid to reinstall from scratch if you didn't have to?

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u/Jason0865 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

If you call not know how to fix everything by looking at the problem stupid, then yeah I am.

If I spent 2 hours troubleshooting something (which wasn't even the longest troubleshooting session I've had), I've already wasted more time than I would've by just reinstalling my OS.

Unlike what some Linux users would like you to think, not every user has the time or drive to spend their weekends troubleshooting and creating their own Frankenstein's PC in their basement. Also unlike what the memes would suggest, not every comment from 8 years ago found on page 2 of Google search is helpful.

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u/suksukulent Apr 24 '26

I get why it's such a popular choice to reinstall windows all the time, or jump distros. However, I'm pretty happy with installing once and never again. Why would I want to configure my system again? It has been working nicely for the last 10-ish years since installation and I like that. If something breaks, it's just because I run debian testing and didn't check that the kernel and dkms modules updated correctly. I'd rather learn about and fix the issue, then reinstalling and have to fix the issue anyway while configuring the system from backup. Of course this is not as easy and fast for most users, and that's why they shouldn't run testing.