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Microsoft Just Gave a Billion Users a Reason to Quit Windows 10 (forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly)
3 points by fortran77 on June 15, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> The bug was introduced by the (increasingly infamous) ‘Windows 10 May 2020’ update and it breaks an important feature for many: Fresh Start which allows users to reinstall Windows 10 without losing their data.

The title feels a bit click-baity. Affected users are, if I am understanding the article correctly, just those who would've used Fresh Start to reinstall Windows during the period of time where the bug was present, and it doesn't seem that all use cases of the tool were affected.

However, if it did leave you with the urge to quit Windows, Linux Desktops aren't the mess they were a decade ago (WiFi generally works out of the box now!) Pop!_OS comes with a tiling manager by default which is wonderful if you have multiple editors/terminals open often.


>> The bug was introduced by the (increasingly infamous) ‘Windows 10 May 2020’ update and it breaks an important feature for many: Fresh Start.

So, the factory reset feature (ability to reinstall Windows 10 without losing user data) is no longer there.




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