• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    This is interesting but I’m a little confused on the use case, as your normal backups of the system would include all your game saves anyways…

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      10 days ago

      You’re assuming that everyone wants to back up their system though. On my gaming PC, I would literally want just this, I couldn’t care less about everything else. For me this would be useful. Would also be nice for my Steam Deck for my GOG games.

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        9 days ago

        It didn’t occur to me that people would have a dedicated PC only used for gaming lol, that’s an expensive way to do it.

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              9 days ago

              Is your work laptop owned by you? That I would definitely understand. Mine is owned by my organization and I want nothing personal on it ever as a result. I like how I can compartmentalize work from entertainment that way.

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                  9 days ago

                  Almost all my banking is done from my phone. It’s rare I need to sit in front of my PC to do so. But that also doesn’t need backed up, it’s all web accessible. I do download all my bank, credit card, and loan statements monthly, but I store all of that in my Proton Drive, nothing remains on my PC. I call it my gaming PC because that’s what it’s for 90% of the time, but I do use it for personal stuff too. That doesn’t really change the fact that literally nothing needs backed up aside from game saves.

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      9 days ago

      You can backup to a cloud provider to have cloud syncing between systems, similar to Steam’s. Also, most people do not backup their systems.