>tfw you do a fresh install of your o/s after years and finally

>tfw choco install
>tfw choco upgrade all

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>tfw within a month it's shit again

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>do a fresh install
>spend ~4 hours reinstalling and configuring everything
>one program you need magically won't work no matter what you do

>>55707323
nigga what the fuck are you doing? you probably have a ton of processes on startup like 95% of retards on windows who think it's slow. month is nothing

tfw wrote script to reinstall everything so it requires like no effort

>>55707354
I don't use windows, but nice try

>>55707275
>he needs to reinstall his OS just to get it to work properly, yet he thinks his OS isn't inherently broken

>>55707374
it's even more embarrassing to clog up Linux in a month

>>55707392
>not reinstalling your o/s every few year

unless you have autism level o/s maintenance it's worth doing

Back when I was in early highschool I used to reformat windows every 2 months or so. Thinking about it now it was pretty fucking stupid but I liked re-configuring it because highschool sucked and I needed to kill time.

>>55707572
I did the same.

I still do it mainly because I mess around with various linux distros for a month or so and then install windows when I want to binge play games.

>>55707437
This post is fucking embarrasing

>>55707651
how so? i can bet 98% of users out there are better off reformatting every few years. The other 2% are the autists.

>>55707651
It's only hard to do this if you use a retarded, fragile, timesink of an OS like any linux distro.

>>55707275
>after years

I literally do it every 1.5 months cause slightly OCD.

>>55708874
>>55707437
i've only ever felt a need to do this with windows. with os x and linux random shit just doesn't cruft up the operating system as readily (or they handle it a lot better than windows).

i remember growing up with windows and thinking of reinstalling fresh as like taking a shower with a deep scrub though. now, looking back, it just seems bonkers that i would feel the need to do that in the first place.

>>55708874
Those numbers are way off retard. This isn't the Windows XP days when you had to install 100 regcleaners and shit to keep that thing usable for more than a year.

I tried upgrading my ubuntu from 14.04 to 15 and then 16.04. Something went wrong halfway through and my filesystem was became mounted as read-only, fsck just kept getting parsing errors. I just gave up and installed it from a disk last night. Feels good man.

>>55707356
just use ansible

>>55708913
Yeah, fuck off. I see the same problems all the fucking time on normal user machines. Maybe just a bonzibuddy or two less. People are still fucking stupid as shit and have 100 applications on startup and adobe updater etc.

>>55707275
>do a fresh install when upgrading
>spend like a day setting everything up
>everything is so comfy and clean
>1 month later
>go to install that one program you use occasionally and forgot about when you first set everything up
>it's not compatible

>>55707437
You are stupid.

>>55707572
just play games instead retard

>>55708901
>slightly OCD.
OCD is a mefical condition for sick people, you are not sick, you are just a idiot.

How is reinstalling not an absolute pain in the ass? It'd take like a day just to setup my visual studio/python environments just the way I like it. I'd have like a thousand programs that would need to be configured. Don't even get me started on all the windows bloat/telemetry shit I'd have to block and reconfigure.

nobody has time for that shit.

>>55707572
This was me.

>>55708894
Takes 20 minutes. Including installing all software and configuring. Any one who has issues with this either has the skills of a 5th grader, uses an overcomplicated operating system, or has specialty concerns (like major server software, or specialty industrial equipment). No exceptions for a reinstall.

>>55708901
I do mine every couple of months, at most.

>>55712503
This is why I keep a collection of installers and configuration files on a server. Reinstall Windows, run installers (rebooting 50 trillion times to prevent conflicts... I've had problems with that in the past...), copy configs, set the few settings that I can't back up, done. Takes less than an hour.

just dd the partitions housing the fresh install into an .img file and store it on a seperate drive

write the .img directly to a drive when you want to start anew