WhiteEyeDoll wrote:
But... Manual non-bloated installation takes like an hour (drivers and software included). Why would you need any cloning or recovery utilities?
WhiteEyeDoll, because you don't end up with the same thing
🙂The Asus build / recovery gives you a reference point that is the same as Asus has back in support. They can help you from that same shared base.
If you install it yourself, you might miss something in the install - sequence of install and after install tuning / settings will be missing or different.
It takes a lot longer than an hour to do it the first time, especially for the first timer. They will make mistakes, and won't have the patience to do it right, or multiple times to get it right after they figure out what they messed up.
Why go through all the work of building it yourself when the team at Asus that has used all their resources at hand to build and QA have already done it for you.
Asus engineers have gone through many hours of configuration and testing, repeating it again and again, until many more than just 1 person is happy with it.
All done by engineers expert in their fields - with many years of experience - combined it is many times your experience.
From that point of view it seems naive and silly to assume you can do it yourself, and it is
🙂You won't believe it until it bites you, so why let it bite you?
Use the Asus build, create an Asus Backtracker USB 3.0 16GB flash drive, and spend 5 minutes after restoring uninstalling the Asus tools you don't want.
Even after watching dozens of people with your idea end up burned by it, it is still sad to see another potential failure on the cusp of disaster.
