The Ubuntu Experiment

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 15:13:48 UTC 2008


2008/8/5 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> That's still merely a matter of time, and you're naive to think otherwise.
> The "fixed" portions of an OS are to all purposes, unimportant.  Even on
> Windows you can restore those simply.  It's the user data that matters.

In Linux, all the user's data is in /home/user. Where is it all in
Windows? Can you easily backup / restore a user's data in Windows
without backing up and restoring the OS? For that matter, transfer it
to another machine?

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