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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Maybe the "accumulated junk from uninstalling software" is an acccepted response on a Windows PC forum. 
Ereaders are linux or Android, have set software, no registry, and anyway have a much better OS and software management model.
The only thing reinstalling my computer could possibly accomplish is requiring me to reconfigure the entire system to have the same installed software and in-use configuration as before... until I have an identical filesystem to the on I rashly deleted.
So I assume the same goes for my ereader. |
I tried to keep my little rant as generic as I could and at the same time, as inclusive as I could. I know what I said is very true for Windows. It's also true for just about everything before Windows came along.
My programming background was in MS-Dos, unix, xenix, and various IBM and Univac and RCA mainframe OS's, and only a little bit in Windows. I retired when Windows was just becoming a thing.
I don't know enough about linux to say whether those issues are properly dealt with but even if they are they're only part of the problem. And I don't know that they are. Unix was far more stable than Windows but it developed problems over time.
Anyway, there are all kinds of things that go on in any computerized device that can alter the way it works over time. These range from cosmic rays to the fact that computers in recent decades no longer have hardware parity. Bits get changed here and there, now and then. Users mess up here and there, now and then. Data gets corrupted when removing it too quickly from a PC, here and there, now and then. There are a million things that can happen. They probably don't matter but they might.
It's all about how careful you like to be. As I said, a lot of people never bother and they're never sorry. Some are sorry. It's just playing the odds. Bet the way that works for you.
Barry