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Never. On my Windows PC, my last fresh install was on Vista, and since then, I have made in-place upgrades and image restores when switching to new system drive
by hs86 5y ago
Never. On my Windows PC, my last fresh install was on Vista, and since then, I have made in-place upgrades and image restores when switching to new system drives.
On macOS, I also never needed to clean install.
- thomastraum 5y agowhats your preferred way to make image archives on windows?
- hs86 5y agoInitially Acronis, but then they dumped down their home version and started to make marginal paid upgrades every year. I am currently on Macrium Reflect, and so far, I have had no issues with it.
- thomastraum 5y agothank you!
- jholman 5y agoYeah, same. Back 20 years ago, I used to reinstall Windows every twelve to eighteen months. There's just no need any more. Of course, I don't install warez any more, that probably helps. But mostly Windows just turned into a real operating system about 10 years ago. I admit I've been starting to think about a reinstall, though. My WSL-1 install is so old that the instructions on how to upgrade to WSL-2 don't work, and I can't figure out how to make them work. So maybe a reinstall would do it.