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[-] kshade@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago

You could fit an entire modern OS in that space, together with all the drivers, a web browser, an office suite, graphics editor, an IDE and a compatibility layer for running Windows applications.

Yup, my Linux install is a bit over 10GB, which honestly surprises me and means I probably should clean stuff up, because usually my Linux base install is around 8GB. After a quick look, I have several old versions of compilers and runtimes that can be cleaned up w/o breaking anything.

I can't imagine thinking that an 8GB cache is fine, and that's nothing compared to the size of the rest of the OS...

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Hold my beer while I boot to linux.

[-] humblebun@sh.itjust.works 298 points 4 days ago

Hi. Microsoft employee here. That's happening because we don't give a shit and we are being replaced by folks from India

[-] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 129 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I hope you're having an amazing day! I am a windows fan and user, just like YOU! I will do my very best to help you solve your issue. I know you have had a bad experience and it must have been very hard for you. But rest assured, i will help you to the BEST of my ability!

Please try running the troubleshooter.

(troubleshooter doesn't fix anything)

Try reinstalling windows. Goodbye!

And then they fuck off and stop reponding.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 81 points 4 days ago

This is every forum response on MS forums, it’s infuriating.

“I have super specific error code with super specific driver that was changed with super specific windows update.”

“Me too!”

“Same, here’s some more info from event viewer”

“Maybe try uninstalling the device”

“Uninstall my WiFi card?”

“Hi I’m bob from Microsoft you should run sfc scan now and that will fix it”

“That didn’t fix it”

“Ok here’s how to reinstall windows”

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 3 points 2 days ago

It's better than the Linux Mint support forums that blocks VPN users and the power users just deny that they're blocking VPN users.

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[-] quink@lemmy.ml 43 points 4 days ago

And then try DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth and DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth that'll get rid of the 9GB file for sure. If not, reinstall everything again and again and again.

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[-] GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

As former MSFT employee who just got replaced by India... I'm kind of relieved I'm gone. Working for them felt like working for the bad guys

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As someone working in the Microsoft ecosystem at an MSP, we seriously wonder what the fuck goes on over there. We’re supposed to defend everything y’all do which is getting really hard to justify without sounding like idiots.

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[-] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 148 points 4 days ago

This is the third update in like six months that is horribly broken. There was a windows 10 update that wouldn’t install because the recovery partition that Microsoft’s installer created was too small. The prior win 11 update just won’t install for lots of people and there’s no real rhyme or reason. Now this crap.

They just don’t give a shit anymore. Microsoft had a great run folks, time to move on.

[-] Toes@ani.social 32 points 4 days ago

They also released an update that broke dual boot Linux installations. Still feeling that one

[-] drosophila 7 points 3 days ago

They've done that periodically for years.

I don't dual boot anymore but when I did I kept each installation on a separate hard drive for that reason.

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[-] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago

Oh right! Forgot about that one! FOUR major screw ups.

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[-] match@pawb.social 14 points 3 days ago

That's not even counting the ones that make your user experience worse on purpose

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

Part of my job is keeping all of the endpoints my work manages up to date with patch compliance. I've had to create exceptions for the past two windows 11 updates because they won't run on most machines for no reason. It's been a pain in the ass. I can't just add the machines to the exception list without doing basic troubleshooting because "procedure" and I've spent so much time doing absolutely unnecessary shit.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

I’m honestly waiting for a crowdstrike level BSOD from one of their updates at some point. At that level, corporations would recover in the same way they did from crowdstrike, but consumers who didn’t understand how to roll back, or restore from backup, restore windows, etc would be livid and hopefully it would create some awareness on better understanding and control of the products you buy and use

[-] Toes@ani.social 26 points 4 days ago

Microsoft has largely mitigated this concern by pushing all their fresh updates to the consumers for testing before pushing them to their sensitive business customers.

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[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 26 points 4 days ago

Remember the dozens of times a Windows 10 update could potentially wipe your personal data?

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Your files are EXACTLY WHERE YOU LEFT THEM

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[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 94 points 4 days ago

All this shit is because some exec had a revelation that windows didn't need QA anymore.

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

There was a former employee that talked about it, they moved from actually testing on real hardware to automated VM testing and started missing a lot more

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 105 points 4 days ago

Nothing that cannot be fixed by a Linux install.

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 40 points 4 days ago

For personal computing, sure. For enterprise environment, eh not really.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

With the amount of money corporations and governments have spent on Microsoft — the last decade alone — they could have filled the gaps in linux and the annual cost for ITSM would be significantly cheaper. Instead they've spent more and have grown far more dependent on proprietary software, they don't own or control, to manage their core business ops and data; the longer their dependence on SaaS, the more they'll pay.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

The only (larger) enterprises that insist "we depend on Windows" are those with shitty corporate IT :)

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[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

Reading all this makes me sad; and I’m relieved to have switched to Mac years ago…

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 100 points 3 days ago

Me when I move from cheap spyware to premium spyware.

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[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 51 points 4 days ago

Linux Mint. You are welcome.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago

buT sToRAgE iS cHeaP!!11!1!

[-] notastatist@feddit.org 17 points 3 days ago

I mean, having windows in your cache is already bad luck

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago

Wasn’t this reported as being a result of the preview build?

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago

Yeah, but don't get in the way of the Windows evil, Linux savior movement here on lemmy or you'll get downvoted to oblivion. Pointing out simple facts apparently means you're a shill.

At least that's what I've seen in all the Windows posts over the last couple months. Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago

Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

People got fed up with Microsoft putting undeletable 9-gigabyte cache files on their systems? And AI junk that screenshots everything you do? And surveillance? And making the OS more hostile and worse in general with every release?

Lemmy exists because people got fed up with the corporate analogue. You'll see a lot of the same sentiment in other matters too.

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It was released. Did you read the article?

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