I've been a Windows user all this time, something I'd heartily recommend is Terabyte Unlimited's 'Image for Windows/Image for Linux', as a rock solid backup solution, sometimes there's discount codes around.
Having backed up a clean install plus tweaks, if things get messed up it's really easy to just restore the image then reinstall essential software in no time. All my data files reside under a different drive letter so are unaffected.
One thing that Windows gets mostly right is backward compatibility, maybe with Linux variants there's too much temptation to make drastic changes especially with limited resources for testing. I'm also a long suffering Firefox user which seemed to suffer similarly in the past.
Thanks very much for all the hard work that goes into your Youtube content, it's very much appreciated :-)
I completely agree that if there were to ever actually be a "Year of the Linux Desktop", programs need to run out of the box with minimal configuration and native (or at least well optimized wine) support of the big name programs: excel, Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc. One of the sad things about using Linux though is that it can be a real coin flip whether or not you'll have problems. Part of why I'm such an evangelist is because I haven't had a single issue that I haven't been able to resolve swiftly or figure out that it was my own doing in the first place, aside from Fedora just not working on my laptop-- Arch runs perfectly and I use it on my desktop, too. A friend who I convinced to give it a shot was the exact opposite: problem after problem, crash after crash. I tried to help them and even tried to configure things myself to no avail. Could it have been the parts? The distro? Or just pure misfortune?
If Linux were to ever gain the market share enthusiasts hope for, it's all about having hardware and software that works consistently everytime
I've been a Windows user all this time, something I'd heartily recommend is Terabyte Unlimited's 'Image for Windows/Image for Linux', as a rock solid backup solution, sometimes there's discount codes around.
Having backed up a clean install plus tweaks, if things get messed up it's really easy to just restore the image then reinstall essential software in no time. All my data files reside under a different drive letter so are unaffected.
One thing that Windows gets mostly right is backward compatibility, maybe with Linux variants there's too much temptation to make drastic changes especially with limited resources for testing. I'm also a long suffering Firefox user which seemed to suffer similarly in the past.
Thanks very much for all the hard work that goes into your Youtube content, it's very much appreciated :-)
I completely agree that if there were to ever actually be a "Year of the Linux Desktop", programs need to run out of the box with minimal configuration and native (or at least well optimized wine) support of the big name programs: excel, Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc. One of the sad things about using Linux though is that it can be a real coin flip whether or not you'll have problems. Part of why I'm such an evangelist is because I haven't had a single issue that I haven't been able to resolve swiftly or figure out that it was my own doing in the first place, aside from Fedora just not working on my laptop-- Arch runs perfectly and I use it on my desktop, too. A friend who I convinced to give it a shot was the exact opposite: problem after problem, crash after crash. I tried to help them and even tried to configure things myself to no avail. Could it have been the parts? The distro? Or just pure misfortune?
If Linux were to ever gain the market share enthusiasts hope for, it's all about having hardware and software that works consistently everytime