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by Cthulhu_ 1253 days ago
I was one of those, but I was just a late teen going to school for it. TBF, in some cases a wipe was the better and faster option. Modern day PCs and laptops are (should be) set up so that user folders are on a separate partition, and a hidden partition to reinstall the operating system while leaving the user's files alone. Should be, anyway.