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Almost nine gigabytes in size: Windows update 24H2 creates an undeletable cache file (www.digitec.ch)
submitted 6 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 57 minutes ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 28 minutes 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 38 minutes ago

I'd say they started the misstepping after they "fixed" Vista with windows 7. After that, they tried to hard instead of slow rolling. Windows 10 was good but 11 is just....windows 8 again.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Nothing that cannot be fixed by a Linux install.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

This is very true. I remember back in the day I tossed my old drive full of viruses and windows and I started using Linux. That was 1998? No, it was definitely 2000 already. That was a really easy erase. I guess you could also just reuse the same drive. But that one has the click of death, so no.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago) (2 children)

Man, I've been trying to migrate to Linux as my daily driver desktop over the last week. I love Linux passionately. But multi-monitor and 2.5Gb/s NIC support is just a disaster, basically to the point of completely unusable. It's so frustrating. It keeps pushing me back to Windows, because Windows just works when it comes to hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

I run two multimonitor systems with different DPIs and 2.5gbe and they both run great. What issues are you hitting?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

those are two of the easiest features to support.

what distro is giving you trouble?

[–] humblebun 147 points 5 hours ago (14 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 24 minutes 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”

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Also try SFC /scannow

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Does it fix anything btw? I'm just wondering how it does work after all

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago

If I remember correctly, it scans system files and replaces broken/corrupted ones. It can work on some issues, but it's not a fix all thing.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It was released. Did you read the article?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, but

Actually no, but don't let either of you failing to read the article get in the way of making your smug little screed.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 hours ago (11 children)

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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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 hours ago

Pathetic, try again

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Linux Mint. You are welcome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

After trying Zorin and having a host of issues, I'm slowly replacing that dual boot option with Mint. Excited to give it a shot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

How is fractional scaling on Mint? On Ubuntu 24.04 it's really crap (slow, blurry, flickering cursor, weird artifacts etc)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That depends on the DE, not the distro.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Okay so how is it with Cinammon, mate xfce? I know it's crap with Wayland and Xorg especially with nvidia drivers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

Wayland KDE plasma scales great! Currently running unstable on NIXOS flawlessly on two different hardware platforms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm honestly not sure as I don't have a display where I need to worry about that.

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