Windows breaks:

1. find a Windows installation Disc or USB (1 hour)
2. backup files from broken installation (2 hours)
3. Install windows (15 minutes)
4. Install Windows updates (8 hours) 4a. Debloat/Decrapify Windows (30 minutes)
5. Restore backed up files (2 hours)
6. Find and install previously installed programs (??? Years)
7. Try to remember accounts and special settings for special previously installed programs (3 hours)

Done in 16 hours

Linux Breaks

1. Find Linux Live USB (5 minutes)
2. Reinstall Linux (10 minutes)
3. Install updates (20 minutes)
4. Reinstall previously installed programs (5 minutes)

Done in <1 hour and spend the rest of the weekend playing Elden Ring

Separate /home partitions are a godsend.

Seems like 2 was the asshole here. 1 was waiting for 3, and 2 likely wasn’t paying attention.

If they are 12 hour shifts, so that the people can head home at 5 with everyone else. If they are 8 hour shifts, usually for the later shifts to have an okay life balance: 5-2 for day shift, 2-11 for second shift, and a third shift option that overlaps.

Even though I’m a night person, 5 is a common time to wake up for enough people who presumably want to be productive, and the benefit of getting off work before the school day ends has to be enticing. And on the second shift side of things, they get to have lunch with loved ones before going to work, and 11 is early enough that they could potentially go out for drinks or other fun before bed.

It’s also nice that for either shift, the person has time to run errands at a time when most stores are open and activity levels are low.

I’d love to kick some money his way, but he only has two tiers: $20/mo and $100/mo. I think he could get a lot more donations if he started with a $5/mo tier.

I think he’d also do well to make a “this is why you should use bcachefs of ext4” sort of post to bring awareness to the project and its benefits.