![]() I was just asking, absolutely no intention to start a discussion whatsoever. When it doesn't I delete the offending opsys (that's where win10 went LOL.) I do not serve my system! My system exists to serve me. I may need to pop in a drive that it has never seen and use it for an offsite backup at any given moment and not have to worry about permissions or formatting whatever. I work on a live system - that is, it CHANGES. That is why I also avoid the UEFI/GPT thing - again, btdt - wasted many many many days trying to find folks to help me to get it to work when it wouldn't do one thing or another. I use what works for me and saves me time. I can't be bothered plugging in a nix live boot and booting it just to access some file on an ext4 partition. I know better than to delete it! My backups, my history is on NTFS. So what if I have to spend a minute booting windows and using it. Again, my experience has been : RUFUS always works. So I try to flash it with something else. My experience has been : I come up with an iso and I use something on nix to flash it to a stick. If I make a bunch of changes and get things working, I just go to win and do another Macrium image. Macrium is too easy - any time I want I can restore the entire SSD with its mix of partitions. In the past I used Clonezilla extensively as I kept changing the linux build, but I am done with that. I know there are things available to backup/sync a linux system but none play nice with NTFS and none allow me to explore NTFS file by file to see what's there. Same with the Macrium backups - I can explore and recover just a single file if I wish. (this laptop is simple ONLY because it ONLY has an Intel video chip.) Linux still does not play nice with changing video cards and drivers. Or back when I had boxes that had Nvidia cards I would wind up with a zombie system when trying to boot it to use just the Intel video driver(like when I actually fried a 650TS). Because I have, in the past, always run into linux shortcomings and have abandoned it. It is only sometimes that I also have a linux system. ![]() ![]() Why? because over the years I always have had a windows system available. My stuff (logs etc) for doing Ubuntu is all on NTFS. People like me tend to forget how to do the MS font install after a year!!! or how to install the Europe drivers for my Canon printer.).īecause it is windows, I can click on the backup, browse and select individual files, and restore it. I have a very old Easeus (doesn't play nice with linux) backup that just a week ago I grabbed something from it in prep for trying Ubuntu again(I have a 7 page log that I create when I do an Ubuntu install, and that I use and update when I do the next install. I seem to have to defend this every time I mention it. ![]()
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