The effort to change from windows is greater than the continued use of windows when i already have solutions to the trash windows puts out.
I couldn’t even be fucked unraiding the drives my laptop came with, even though I don’t want them in raid it’s just… eh, it probably won’t be an issue before the laptop gets replaced in 5 years
You are underestimating how long it takes to do anything that requires internet (everything does). There’s 0 point booting Linux without games, and games take days to download, sometimes days per game. Also, I already fixed windows, so the effort is entirely wasted.
Removing raid is a multi month problem due to losing all the data, or a few hundred in new SSDs to backup stuff. Removing raid the moment I got the laptop would’ve been the smart idea, but I didn’t do that so I’m not gonna do it until I get a new laptop.
Why would you buy SSDs for backup purposes? Buy an external hard drive, they aren’t expensive. You should be making backups anyway so it’s not really an excuse, go and buy a NAS or something if you have no backup solution at all. Yes you should have done it right away if you were going to do it. Having RAID 0 as your only copy of valuable data is an awful idea. What on earth are you doing?
If I’m buying any new drive, it’s going in the laptop so I get more total storage.
I don’t have a home network so a NAS isn’t a great option.
Raid 0 is what my laptop shipped with for… Whatever reason MSI had. And I didn’t bother to change it when I probably should have knowing that redownloading all my data on a connection that doesn’t reliably run HD video is a miserable and long process.
I have important paperwork backups on my phone, and/or emailed to myself but literally the basic process of downloading and installing steam is slow as hell and means the internet can’t be used for anything else.
Why couldn’t you just get home internet? If you can afford the kind of computer that uses RAID 0 out of the box, you can surely afford Internet at home. Plus you would probably make up most of the difference in the reduces mobile bill.
I can’t imagine spending thousands of dollars on a setup and then running windows on it like it’s in a some office cubicle somewhere.
The effort to change from windows is greater than the continued use of windows when i already have solutions to the trash windows puts out.
I couldn’t even be fucked unraiding the drives my laptop came with, even though I don’t want them in raid it’s just… eh, it probably won’t be an issue before the laptop gets replaced in 5 years
You are likely overestimating the how difficult it would be to just use Linux. Just dual boot until you stop booting windows.
The thing about Linux is no one is fucking up the OS on purpose.
You are underestimating how long it takes to do anything that requires internet (everything does). There’s 0 point booting Linux without games, and games take days to download, sometimes days per game. Also, I already fixed windows, so the effort is entirely wasted.
Fwiw you don’t need to redownload your games. You can just play the windows games on Linux.
Removing the drives from a raid array wouldn’t be that complicated. This is just laziness at this point.
I kind of agree on using Windows though. My two main machines are dual booted for a reason.
Removing raid is a multi month problem due to losing all the data, or a few hundred in new SSDs to backup stuff. Removing raid the moment I got the laptop would’ve been the smart idea, but I didn’t do that so I’m not gonna do it until I get a new laptop.
Why would you buy SSDs for backup purposes? Buy an external hard drive, they aren’t expensive. You should be making backups anyway so it’s not really an excuse, go and buy a NAS or something if you have no backup solution at all. Yes you should have done it right away if you were going to do it. Having RAID 0 as your only copy of valuable data is an awful idea. What on earth are you doing?
If I’m buying any new drive, it’s going in the laptop so I get more total storage.
I don’t have a home network so a NAS isn’t a great option.
Raid 0 is what my laptop shipped with for… Whatever reason MSI had. And I didn’t bother to change it when I probably should have knowing that redownloading all my data on a connection that doesn’t reliably run HD video is a miserable and long process.
I have important paperwork backups on my phone, and/or emailed to myself but literally the basic process of downloading and installing steam is slow as hell and means the internet can’t be used for anything else.
How are you getting Internet without a home network?
Mobile data. I leave my house, my house no longer has internet. Makes the solution of download shit while at work not particularly useful.
It’s also very very slow and I watch a lot of videos at 240p and 360p.
Why couldn’t you just get home internet? If you can afford the kind of computer that uses RAID 0 out of the box, you can surely afford Internet at home. Plus you would probably make up most of the difference in the reduces mobile bill.