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    [–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Put a distro on a flash drive. Throw the flash drive in a drawer. If computer break, retrieve flash drive. There’s your spare computer. Now try doing that with windows.

    [–] toddestan@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

    That's not fair. You can make bootable Linux flash drives in Windows too.

    [–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    Does Hiren's BootCD PE count?

    [–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    No. You have a barely functioning windows environment when using hirens that’s only useful for very specific things. Linux can boot off a flash drive and do literally anything a full install can do.

    [–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    a barely functioning windows environment...that’s only useful for very specific things.

    Sounds like a full Windows install to me.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    [–] polle@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

    You can boot windows of an usb stick. You can create that with rufus. I tried it out of curiosity and it actually works.