How often do you completely reinstall your OS on your PC?

>>106148149 (OP)
Whenever I feel like it. My current GNU+Linux install is only 15 days old. My current Windows 11 install is a tad older at 166 days.

>>106148149 (OP)
When I get a new PC. Idiots that can't help but break their OS need to reinstall constantly.

>>106148225
Using your operating system as more than a bootloader for your web browser will end up rotting it, especially on Windows, Even on Linux, even if you're careful, your user folder will end up rotting and since nobody else uses your computer you may as well take the 10 extra minutes to start completely clean.

>>106148237
Found the idiot that can't help but break their OS.

>>106148149 (OP)
Used to do it often but nowadays with work, family, other hobbies I haven't done it in years. Haven't had a reason to either tbqh. Tumbleweed werks.

>>106148245
>Found
No, you just made up a bunch of bullshit because ``angst & hate'' fuel your existence.

once a year

Reminds me of that anon who's still using his 2007 XP install daily even for browsing.
I have no fucking idea how you could do this.

>>106148149 (OP)
Every time a new Ubuntu LTS comes out.

>>106148149 (OP)

Once every couple years if Windows. Never if Mac.

About once in 2 months, though I should be doing it more often for security.

>>106148149 (OP)
Once a year because I get bored with it

>>106148149 (OP)
used to do it a lot for various reasons, but just noticed my current (arch) install is nearing 4 years
think i may do a new install next year

>>106148149 (OP)
>How often do you completely reinstall your OS on your PC?
basically whenever theres a new significant Windows update

>factory reset router
>flash BIOS (with the button, no software)
>take mother SSD out of safe and boot from it to get the latest update
>SSD dock clone from mother SSD to actual OS SSD
>put updated mother SSD back in safe
>connect regular SSD and boot
in this way, i can clone from the "clean" OS hd any time i want (inb4 muh ssd wear)

>>106148149 (OP)
i have been running the same debian since 2009. it's probably a whole new ship outside of home but idk
get fucked losers

>>106148149 (OP)
I haven't had to reinstall since I switched to Debian, which was a year before Debian 12 released. So about 3 years but I plan to leave it for many more years since in-place upgrades exist.

The quickest way to break your OS is to install multiple versions of Python or Java.

>>106148149 (OP)
With windows it was every year or 6 months, with linux it was... like once every 5 years and because I installed something by myself

>>106148149 (OP)
I just switched all my PCs to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC. Windows 11 is so fucking ass. The performance on my gaming laptop is night and day.

>>106148149 (OP)
I ditched my old OS for Debian, just after England lifted the World Cup and I've been on the same install ever since. I remember it well, as I original made the switch after Geoff Hirst thanked Linus Tordval during his interview with John Motson in the tunnel after the game, thus sparking my interest with the world of unix architecture. I spent the next 3 weeks installing Gentoo.

>>106148149 (OP)
once a year

>>106148149 (OP)
When a new system SSD is needed, so ~2 years I would say. Computer at my workshop had Ubuntu installed in 2012 and it still works really good. It depends

>>106157305
>When a new system SSD is needed, so ~2 years I would say.
Huh? What the fuck are you doing to your SSDs? Even QLC should last at least 15 years nowadays..

>>106157219

>>106149235
impossible

I have a single ancient install that has transferred disks and hardware multiple times from Vista to 11 (about ~18 years) in my workstation.

>>106158665
pics or it didn't happen

>>106158668
Doubt it is that uncommon for anyone *oomer except the newest one. It is files, bro. What the fuck do you want a jpeg from 2003 bc I have those, so it is older than 18 years now. Are my files older than you?

When I was on Linux every month or so when some perfectly innocent command would completely brick the system. On windows, only when I start running out of disk space and don’t feel like clearing it so I just reinstall the whole OS

>>106158760
>single ancient install
>upgraded from Vista and this faggot thinks creation dates are what is important
Look, I get you think you are hot shit, but if can't fucking pull your head out of your ass long enough to think of a way to prove your claim then why respond? You just look more like a faggot trying to call me a child or pretending to be retarded.

Never. If I think about it my current install is probably something like 7 years old.

>>106148149 (OP)
Daily

>critical infrastructure servers run the same OS for 15+ years , not even receiving updates
>anons think their femboy catgirl gooning rigs need constant clean installs
Kek

>>106148149 (OP)
Mint.
Never.

>>106148301
I've been using the same use folder for over a decade. Fact is you're a fucking idiot.

>>106148149 (OP)
I haven't done a full reinstall for I won't know how long. My current Windows install started on a 4790k system, then moved to a Ryzen 3900X + X570, went through a 5950X upgrade, then another to a 7950X3D + X670E and finally was upgraded to W11 just recently. Yes, everything works correctly.

>>106153339
You could probably just make and store images of your clean OS installs rather than dedicating a drive to storing an OS install you don't use, no?

>>106148149 (OP)
You want to know how long your rootkit will last, moss?

>>106149886
this, which makes rolling releases kind of pointless, I am going to do this cleaning task one day or another anyways, and I don't need the stress of keeping up to date or checking change notes every few weeks

>>106159314
You're infected at the hardware layer chuddy
Go ahead and swap out your CPU motherboard and hard drives
I'll just inject again via your router, idiot

>>106148149 (OP)
I hate how stupid the Apple keynotes have become. It indicates a modern lack of taste.

With Jobs, the Keynotes also had shitposty moments, but it was not a fucking Hollywood production. We're here for technology and software, not for fucking around with Brad Pitt.

>>106148212
How do you back up your data? I keep having to boot up my old pc because there's shit I forgot to transfer.

>>106148149 (OP)
3-4 times each day, twice if it's gentoo due to compilation times.

>>106148237
The fuck is this faggot saying? I install an OS once and use it until my machine wears down. Nothing degrades.

>>106148149 (OP)
when i feel like it. its like changing underwear. when i want to be fresh.

>>106148149 (OP)
More often than I'd like but I'm getting better. I was a chronic idiot who cant help but break their os

>>106159220
based tinycore user

>>106148149 (OP)
>clean install
>make a backup
>put everything non-os on another partition (winblows) or another uhhh... the dynamic apfs thingy (mac)
>keep a high-level changelog with what OS relevant changes I did
>if too much cruft accumulates, restore OS, re-add the changes I liked from the changelog, make a new backup checkpoint
this worked well for me since forever

Normally I'd say once every 2-3 years, though the last few weeks I've been trying out different distros on my laptop to see how it affects my daily workflow

>>106159558
I use Windows 10

>>106148149 (OP)
Every 3 years, usually
In that time I setup as much as possible in anticipation of reisntall proofing

>>106148149 (OP)
>windows
Depending on what I did to it either a few months or yearly. My last few windows installs nuked themselves despite being almost completely vanilla. I'm assuming those kernel level anti cheats cause some issues or maybe somehow QEMU is corrupting them?
>linux
Haven't had to reinstall since switching to arch 5 years ago, and at this point I have so many backups I don't see myself reinstalling again even in the event of complete drive failure.

>>106148149 (OP)
i use linux so there's no need to reinstall it ever

>>106148149 (OP)
https://youtube.com/shorts/iVz0yEeL83A

I usually go about 4-5 years unless something is seriously broken, but even that's almost impossible because I have the OS installed on a 100GB partition its backed up daily with Macrium Reflect configured for a full backup every 7 days, and an incremental daily. My setup is basically unbreakable due to the way I have everything setup.

>>106148149 (OP)
I don't my arch install is from 2017 when I first installed it.

At least once every couple months.

>>106148149 (OP)
I reinstall macOS every day when I wake up. It's my coffee time

>>106148237
This is some esoteric autism right here

>>106148149 (OP)
about every 6 months

>>106148149 (OP)
every day

>>106148149 (OP)
windows every 5-6 years, linux 2 times a years

>>106161293
damn, made me look.

>>106148149 (OP)
I guess this interval should be strictly correlated with how young, virgin, unemployed, no family, friends and no responsibility the person has.

i have believed that there's an inverse correlation between how good your system specs are and how often you format your computer for quite a while, but don't have a way of getting enough of a sample size to see how true it is

>>106148149 (OP)
Posready 2009 on my main rig has been running since feb 2016. OpenBSD on my laptop, less than a week after the last version came out.

Never. I just swapped the hard drive last time I got a new computer, and rsyncd everything last time I got a new hard drive.

>>106148149 (OP)
Still rocking same windows vista install (with updates to 7>8>8.1>10>11) from 2008.

>>106148149 (OP)
Whenever I fuck my Linux install. I really need to stop doing that but it feels like way less of a hassle than sitting down and learning what went wrong

>>106162458
while it does seem like a waste of time initially, you'll save time in the long run if you learn what went wrong and how to fix it. you'd be surprised just how easy it is to fix issues in linux compared to windows.
or you can keep doing what you're doing and never know the hour you spent reinstalling and setting things back up could have been fixed in 40 seconds

>>106148149 (OP)
It used to be more useful during HDD era imo. Not really useful these days.

>>106148149 (OP)
Every 15 minutes.

>>106148301
LMAO so mad.

>>106148149 (OP)
Since switching to Linux, never.
My Arch install is years old and I don't see a reason to reinstall.

>>106148149 (OP)
my arch usually lives for a year before i reinstall, now im reinstalling cuz im replacing my ancient ssd

>>106159402
I sometimes do the same thing as the other poster, changing distros like pants.
I use syncthing to keep everything I want synced across all my computers, including a small server that's pretty much always running.

>>106148212
>my current GNU+Linux install is only 15 days old
AAAAH, I'MMM GONNA HOOOOOPPP

>>106148149 (OP)
Used to do it every 2-3 years, or at least every time I get full new hardware (mainboard+CPU), to resolve any potential fuck ups by leftover driver and such.
Not sure when the last time I reinstalled was at this point, probably 1-2 years after I switched from Intel to AMD, not since then though.

>>106148149 (OP)
My current Debian install is only 11 years old, I think I'll wait a bit more before reinstalling.

>>106159023
>When I was on Linux every month or so when some perfectly innocent command would completely brick the system
wtf are you typing into your terminal bro. I only ever broke one linux install in my life, and that was when I was a kid and tried to make a cluster out of my parents' old computers.

>>106148149 (OP)
>How often do you completely reinstall your OS on your PC?
when Tahoe releases I'll make a fresh install

When it completely breaks. Rarely.