• muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Put a distro on a flash drive. Throw the flash drive in a drawer. If computer break, retrieve flash drive. There’s your spare computer. Now try doing that with windows.

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        6 days ago

        No. You have a barely functioning windows environment when using hirens that’s only useful for very specific things. Linux can boot off a flash drive and do literally anything a full install can do.

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          6 days ago

          a barely functioning windows environment…that’s only useful for very specific things.

          Sounds like a full Windows install to me.

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      6 days ago

      You can boot windows of an usb stick. You can create that with rufus. I tried it out of curiosity and it actually works.