Reply 20 of 22, by cyclone3d
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AngryByDefault wrote on 2021-07-10, 02:08:cyclone3d wrote on 2021-07-09, 01:45:Way back in the day, I have a Linux distro that fit on a floppy. It was a router distro. I thing I was running it on something like a 486.
Freesco perhaps?...
I think you are correct.
As for my original post, all of them are kinda silly.
I've been in IT for a good 20-ish years and usually Windows can be fixed and so can OSX. I've mostly only worked on Windows machines but I did build a hackintosh for a family member.
However, in the corporate world, it is usually just easier and quicker to reimage a machine after making sure that there aren't any needed files that are not already saved in the user's roaming profile.
This is for machines that the standard quick fixes have already been tried.
As for any type of malware, that is an automatic and immediate removal from the network and a required reimage of that machine.
As for my home machines, I've run the same Windows 10 install for years. I generally only do a clean install if I do any major hardware upgrades such as changing the motherboard and CPU.
Short of that, Windows 10 Pro has been pretty rock solid for me across a wide range of desktops and laptops.
