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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Me reinstalling windows for the 3rd time this year cause of some bsod:

yes
yes
yes
choose language
partition
log into forced account
no to telemetry 20x
sell your sole, give your personality up for theft to an aI and agree to never sue microsoft in their tos
reboot
find some guide on internet to follow step by step while I type commands into 20 different terminals, open 4 different control panels and use regedit to reduce the bloatware and spyware.

Me installing advanced user linux for the first time after previous process did not fix monster hunter from crashing:

choose language
partition
launch linux for first time
rpm fusion for nvidia drivers
reboot

If I had known linux runs games better I would have switched years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ok so now you gotta help me figure something out

Im sort of a hoarder when it comes to my data - as in I don't know what takes up 80% of my storage space but it does.

And I really want to switch to Linux, but the daunting task of finding where 8+ TB of data needs to go before I install it has slowed me down.

Actually 8TB isn't that bad thinking about it. Maybe it's just time to find anything I care about and just purge the rest, and start fresh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'd recommend Winderstat to figure out what's causing the bloat

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't go anywhere. In the file explorer you can just open the disk and work with the contents. Linux can access ntfs drives.

You could detach them before installation, I did that with windows too in the past, to make sure they aren't accidentally formatted during installation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

:O that's amazing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you're on Linux, use czkawka to clean out your files. It searches for duplicates, big files, empty files, ...

Also works on windows, if you want to clean first.

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

btw, you're creating backups, right? A big disk 8TB is fairly inexpensive. Back it up before you do large file transactions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

... Yeah we'll go with the idea that I'm creating backups

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are the luckiest motherfucker on earth if your 8tb of data is safe on the same drive as windows.

Id just start fresh. Most of the crap you don't need. If you needed it youd know exactly what it is and would follow the backup law.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Oh it's not on the same drive as windows. It's just scattered amongst various SSDs