that’s one of the reasons i think Lenovo has won the laptop war, they include all operating systems and make it very easy to install any on your device, i love Ubuntu a lot, and chromeOS too

  • @fatzgebum@feddit.de
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    37 months ago

    Doesn’t the installation of the new OS do the wiping? I was wondering because I never did it differently.

    • @scottywh@lemmy.world
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      27 months ago

      It all depends on how sure you want to be that whatever was there previously is unrecoverable.

      DBAN is up to DOD standards if I remember correctly.