The Ubuntu Experiment

[Mike McMullin]

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 18:13 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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?


  If you have the skills, you can mount a partition in the Documents...
etc. folder, and that has pretty much the same effect, if you have the
skills, why MS, doesn't make this easier to do for overworked and
underpaid MSCE's is beyond me.