Not everyone WANTS to fiddle with their computer, some just want to do stuff with it then go away and do something else. Maybe because some people have work to do? Maybe because they get paid to use windows applications? Or maybe because they want to run some specific applications such as games that won't run well on the latest Ubuntu? Do yourself a huge favor and climb off the Microsoft teat. Why anyone wants to run a Windows machine is really beyond my understanding. The latest Ubuntu 10.X is so good it is scary. And on Linux, I don't think there's anything comparable at the moment. It's one thing for Windows 7 to pop up a notification balloon, or for OS X to complain that Time Machine isn't set up, but I feel like there should be more than that. IMO, I'd like to get to the point where OSes, Windows, Mac, Linux, really, seriously warn the user the moment their data isn't safe. Until then, you have your wizardry, I have my slightly-less-magical-looking GUI that manages most of it for me built in. Let me know when a popular Linux distro supports bare metal backup and a snapshotting filesystem with the ability to "go back in time" to a good state, I look forward to that day. That's great progress, but it's maybe not yet good enough.
Windows 7 actually informs the user regularly that they don't have a backup, and will continue to warn them if a backup ever fails. We both know how to use our OS to protect our data, even if it involved what appears to be wizardry to the average user. But I'm not a typical user.Īnd neither are you. I have daily backups, a RAID10 internal with a hot spare, blah blah blah. I guarantee you I won't lose data if my Windows box dies. And there are more advanced features for the adventurous. Windows comes with bare metal tools, and the ability to properly configure a daily, weekly, etc, backup on external disk. The fact is, advanced tools are just that, advanced.
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