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[–] riskable@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Hah! Can someone here chime in and tell me when the slow AF (as in, it can take hours) rollback feature actually worked

Who TF is that patient‽ You can reinstall Windows and all your apps in half the time required.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

As someone who has hundreds of installed programs with tweaks on top of tweaks and hundreds of thousands of files, I always find the suggestion to "just reinstall" beyond laughable.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I think it recovered my PC for me twice, and it took about ~10 minutes each time at most. Good luck reinstalling everything in that time lol.