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[โ€“] verdigris@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Windows recovery fails in plenty of circumstances, it's not a magic bullet. Snapshots are like you can do with btrfs, but that's not exactly how Windows recovery works.

[โ€“] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Of course not, but it works 9/10 times for most people. Enough so that most people never have to deal with a faulty Windows update.