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Agreed. It’s got to the point now where Windows is in a bubble - I have a 64 GB nvme that windows is installed on, and absolutely nothing else. The number of t
by ddek 6y ago
Agreed. It’s got to the point now where Windows is in a bubble - I have a 64 GB nvme that windows is installed on, and absolutely nothing else.
The number of times I’ve had to reinstall Windows, it just makes sense to have it isolated so I don’t lose any data.
Except, I inevitably do because Windows finds a way to have files saved and programs installed where I don’t want them.
- ztjio 6y agoInterestingly, as of the most recent edition of macOS, this is how macOS structures itself natively. It will install the OS itself in read only mode (and encrypted) onto a dedicated APFS Volume, with all the data on a separate APFS Volume, both sharing the same container representing the entire boot drive. As a user you will not notice at all unless you go looking. This is mainly for security reasons, as I understand it. But, surely this also makes an OS reinstall or recovery much simpler. I have not yet had the luck to need to do either since this installation model was adopted so I don't know what the impact (positive or negative) to the user is in such a scenario. Anyway, I find it amusing that such a model has only recently been adopted by a mainstream OS after so many decades of the concept being espoused as important in the general Unix-like world. I wonder if Microsoft will follow suit.
- ornornor 6y agoThat’s also how BSD does it. It’s easier to reinstall the OS then. Not that you’d need to, BSD being as robust as it is.