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		pessimizer on June 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard ... I don't know about pros, but I do that. Sometimes you don't want to waste time figuring it out, and you were thinking about upgrading or switching distros anyway.

AnIdiotOnTheNet on July 1, 2019 | [–]

I think the point though was, "Why are people doing this if reinstalling the OS so so much less a thing in Linux land?"

hyayz on July 1, 2019 | | [–]

I like btrfs. It's made subvolumes (/ and /home) and snapshots (which I religiously take before any major updates) ridiculously easy.

rkeene2 on July 1, 2019 | | [–]

You might really enjoy Solaris's boot environments, then ;-)

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