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Haha this is true. Help desk is of the “not going to waste time and just re-image” mentality, so I decided not to nuke the next couple days of productivity sett
by atlas_hugged 3y ago
Haha this is true. Help desk is of the “not going to waste time and just re-image” mentality, so I decided not to nuke the next couple days of productivity setting it all back up.
With Linux these gremlins tend to be a bit less of a problem in my, gosh 20 years of IT experience. 20 years, wow! Am I really that old? Dear god. Where does the time go?
- stephenr 3y agoMany moons ago my first job in the industry was working in an IT department for a technical college; this was the days of windows 98/xp and Novell netware; Even then unless it was a trivial issue, it was often a simpler fix to just re-image (or swap out hardware if we happened to have new ones available) - because most people had zero custom software installed (except for the 8 different IE toolbars they had somehow installed but swear appeared automatically) and after all, its windows: restoring from a clean image meant the machine would suddenly have that new car smell again and it'd likely last longer until the next issue would pop up. For people with custom software there was usually more leeway to troubleshoot problems - particularly if it was stuff that needed one-off configuration. I do feel your pain but having been on the other side of that fence I also feel their pain.