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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... No you just use Windows built-in rollback feature. Which I think even auto-recovers these days of it detects a failure to boot after an update.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows recovery fails in plenty of circumstances, it's not a magic bullet. Snapshots are like you can do with btrfs, but that's not exactly how Windows recovery works.

Of course not, but it works 9/10 times for most people. Enough so that most people never have to deal with a faulty Windows update.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hah! Can someone here chime in and tell me when the slow AF (as in, it can take hours) rollback feature actually workedβ€½

Who TF is that patientβ€½ You can reinstall Windows and all your apps in half the time required.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

As someone who has hundreds of installed programs with tweaks on top of tweaks and hundreds of thousands of files, I always find the suggestion to "just reinstall" beyond laughable.

I think it recovered my PC for me twice, and it took about ~10 minutes each time at most. Good luck reinstalling everything in that time lol.