-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-02 20:18, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
It can take days!
This can still be ugly in certain cases, but it's immensely better with Windows 8.1 than previously. The recovery partition reset is not to be casually discarded,
Having a recovery partition (which is an old trick) is cheating. You can not compare installing Linux to installing Windows if one of them is installed from scratch and the other from an image. And I have heard of recovery partitions in machines sold with SLED, from HP I believe.
nor the refresh feature of Windows 8.1 which returns the system to a near factory state while keeping user data and settings intact. That alone is vastly better than anything we currently have with any Linux desktop distro.
You have something similar, even more powerful, with btrfs snapshots.
The functional equivalent of reset is the same as on Android and iOS.
But you need a third party app, like AppMgr III, to then recover all your previously installed apps, which is what the OP wants.
If you have a branded system (Dell, HP, ASUS), it's a matter of plugging in a service tag into their web site, and you get all the recommended drivers for that system to download.
You do not need that in Linux, as all the drivers are distributed in the kernel. But if you did, why don't those brands do the same with Linux?
I've done this and the whole thing takes maybe an hour or two. Not days.
And will it install for you the video driver, the printer driver, nero, the TomTom drive, java, flash, firefox, thunderbird, libreoffice, etc? Sure? With a single reboot? - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlWVrKIACgkQja8UbcUWM1wyDgD+I7Mt58l508McmN5iqp4g4uST +oiLOPdy7kl4JQK8+c4A/in62AM/SD1QxXdBvVFGWEkGh9n7jAtgAbMfbUblXteM =bKea -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org