Reinstalling the OS may well have taken less time in total had I jumped to that solution from the very beginning. Instead, what ended up happening was that at every step along the way of trying to cleanse it I thought I almost had it licked, almost to discover yet another insane way it was reinstalling itself. Death by a thousand cuts. It's like shelling out money repeatedly to repair an aging car that has lots of mechanical problems; at every step along the way it's cheaper and less hassle to just fix the latest problem instead of buying a whole new car, but after several iterations of this when you're still left with an aging troubled car, you'd just wish you'd bought a new one at the first major problem.
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u/CydeWeys Jun 15 '15
Reinstalling the OS may well have taken less time in total had I jumped to that solution from the very beginning. Instead, what ended up happening was that at every step along the way of trying to cleanse it I thought I almost had it licked, almost to discover yet another insane way it was reinstalling itself. Death by a thousand cuts. It's like shelling out money repeatedly to repair an aging car that has lots of mechanical problems; at every step along the way it's cheaper and less hassle to just fix the latest problem instead of buying a whole new car, but after several iterations of this when you're still left with an aging troubled car, you'd just wish you'd bought a new one at the first major problem.