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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Usually it is nothing more than either reversing an update or waiting for the next update in Windows.

...Waiting with a non-functional computer until the next update?... Really?...

While in Linux you'd have to re-import the correct repositories through command line and it might still not work, explain that to your parents.

Why would a non-technical person ever need to use 3rd-party repos? Besides that, "reimporting" a repo is just adding 3-5 lines of text to a file, which can be done via gEdit, or, in most cases, through the settings in a distro's package manager UI.