Re: 30 Years Of Netscape

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 20:43:42 -0600, sticks wrote:

For some reason the nephew decides she needs to reinstall windows cause
she got phished.  Not sure exactly what procedure he used, but he
effectively did a full install and erased everything she had on her
system.  All pictures, documents, contacts...every damn thing.

This is why I like to separate user files from the OS install. On a Linux
system, all the user stuff lives in the /home directory anyway, so you can
make that a separate partition. That way, if you ever need to reinstall
the OS, you don’t need to touch the user files.