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What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS
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Unrealistic. Every repair on Windows starts with
DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealthfollowed bysfc /scannow...wait. no... That's the correct way. The MS MVP in the forum always mix it up and tell you to run them in reverse...
Fyi do not run that if you used MAS :-)
what will happen?
I think it removes some needed files and screws up your activation or something like that
Why would you use anything else.
Because Linux exists :p
I know, but people are still not comfortable switching to it, but it's getting more traction because Windows 11 is getting worse and worse, not that it was great before, this is just the shittiest version of it and people are finally realising Linux is a good alternative.
My experience when I switched about a year ago was to wonder why I had put it off for so long because from day 1, it was more comfortable to use.
Ans this is despite me using a DE I'd never used before (cinnamon) and ended up not really liking and getting "pushed" to another one (KDE) like windows pushed me to another OS (and even that was another "why didn't I do this sooner?").
So a DE that was bad enough that I was happy to find a better alternative was still such a better experience than windows that I didn't miss any of the comfort of familiarity at all from the start.
And the longest part of the process was a) fighting windows to write the install iso properly (iirc it wanted to add the stupid windows meta folder files or something like that, causing the iso to fail the hash check, and I have a feeling that that side effect might be a reason they do it that way), and b) reading up on the various options in case I wanted something other than the default or common options (I didn't but it was good to learn).