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But... it is a place to hide things 🤨.

I won't argue about leftovers when uninstallig, some package managers do that as well, plus it's not really the registry's fault, that's just bad or badly configured installers/uninstallers.

They have app specific "hacks" in place for old popular software. Like Winamp and the ones you mentioned.

Win98 sucks balls big time though. It's just DOS with a UI, unstable AF.

There is if one of them doesn't do the job properly.

It's still advisable to turn it on... it's Windows after all... on Linux, yes, I don't use a firewall as well.

It’s like 3 clicks to disable automatic upgrades/reboots in Windows.

Do share how to disable updates in 3 clicks... cuz it USED to be that easy... not any more.

That is true.

But, due to the nature of how it works, it can be also used to hide data that the user "should not be aware of".

Ah, if the thing has USB 3.0, then the NIC in the laptop is probably 100Mbit (lower end models had 100Mbit even if they were newer), that's your main issue, not SMB. SMB is a TCP/IP protocol, has nothing to do with hardware implementation and has no speed limits (at least none that I'm aware of). It goes as fast as the slowest part in the chain.

Cheapo built-in consumer motherboard RAID doesn't work great on Linux

That is what I actually meant.

I guess if you're dual booting, you'd have to do it that way since I don't think you can share software RAID between Windows and Linux. It's still not great.

That's why you don't do RAID at all on a daily driver. You make/buy a NAS for that kind of thing. Maybe just RAID1 in hardware, cuz that's easy to set up and generally just works, even with low end hardware solutions.

I don't think many dual booters actually pay for Windows licenses.

Are you using hardware RAID? yeah, that doesn't go too well with Linux... works perfectly in Windows though, cuz their softraid solutions are shit.

You could probably get a Gbit LAN USB card added to that so you could at least get 30MB out of the thing 🤷.