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  • This. Also, the requirement to get all unique files (guesses OP means personal files) can be hard. In theory, OP should just copy out C:\Users<username> but this also includes a lot of junk from apps. And often, it makes no sense to copy everything, like Chrome, where you’re only interested in a small part of the data and not all the cached objects. Chromium based browser profiles are huge, often with hundreds of thousands of files. You would be better off exporting the data you need and importing them into your new OS/Browser. This also makes sure you can get saved passwords as these are not something you just copy out using raw file copy.

    And finally, som uses (and apps) have a habit of saving files to other places like C:\Photos and C:\Movies but also dim things like C:\IntelDriverUpdate (made up name), that also makes it hard for a tool to find the personal files.


  • At least Mac has the whole menu bar going for it. I started out on GNOME but the empty bar in the top just bothered me. Then I went XFCE but I kept running into small annoyances, that probably could be fixed somehow but I don’t really have time to fight/tweak my computer. And now I’m on Plasma and so far it just works and the small tweaks I have done were quick.




  • Yes. And it sucks if your native language is English, as that will go across multiple regions. If your website was only available in Swedish, then you could easily argue that your website was not meant for people in England.

    But as long as you do business - and you very much do so when you have users there that looks at ads that generate money to you - then that country can say that you have to follow the laws there.

    Another good example is GDPR. When GDPR became active, you could run into many websites that blocked EU countries as they were not yet GDPR compliant and/or didn’t want to be. And cookie banners - another EU thing that has spread across the world and maybe been adopted by other countries.