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I used to be pretty cavalier about messing with Windows, and would lose my files on an annual or bi-annual basis. I spent a heck of a lot of time tracking down files and restoring from my sporadic backups, not to mention the virus scan time or defragging.
Then the 4th or 5th time I realized that this was crazy, switched to Linux, and learned how to use DVCSes. I'm not sure that this has yet amounted to a 300x improvement in wasted time, but I'm pretty confident that by the time I die it will have.