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The new 24H2 update for Microsoft's latest operating system [11] is leaving 8.63GB of space unavailable and there isn't a way to fix it yet. (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

With Windows 10 support ending in a matter of days, that leaves the latest Microsoft OS as the only real option for gamers right now

Windows 10 support ends in 2025. Linux is a very real option for the majority of games.

Given the idiocy in this article, I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t occur to them to delete Windows.old from an external software environment. Ultimately, that’s something you want to keep around for a while because it’s what lets you roll back the upgrade if there turns out to out to be problems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Either that, or they expect to be releasing something stupid in the near future and are allocating the space for it early. ~8 gigs does sound suspiciously close to the size of an AI model.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The second that VR support becomes passable on Linux I can dump my last Windows install. It's amazing how such a terrible product still has a chokehold on the PC market pretty much out of momentum alone.

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

Take a look at this: https://lvra.gitlab.io/

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

I'll have to try again, the last time I tried was close to the Index Launch.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, the Windows folder is larger than that. There's an easy way to reclaim all that wasted space.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Atleast, you get Recall, only the most invasive piece of spyware.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow. That's crazy.

* posted from my Windows-free PC *

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Isn’t this always the case? I get people have a hate-on for Windows 11 lately but every major version of Windows 10 has kept the old version for a month or so, allowing you to revert if needed. You can run disk cleanup and get the space back early if you want.

I guess the notable part here is that the disk cleanup part isn’t working? You can also just wait for the time to elapse and it will delete itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm glad I haven't updated.

I'm sad I haven't had the wherewithal to transition to the Linux yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I use Linux, but let’s be honest here: every operating system requires space to function properly. While Linux is known for taking up less storage space (especially distros such as Alpine), as you install things, it will demand space, and that includes future updates. With the recent additions of AI within Windows, 8GB is compatible with the size of neural weights or datasets (speaking as someone who has dealt with AI in a technical/development capacity). If they're registered as "Temporary files" from "old installation", I guess it has to do with some re-training of Windows AI tools. I'm not discussing the merit of those AI tools (whether they're useful or not to the final user), but AI tools, among all modern features, takes space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Every time I read something new about the new Windows. I'm really glad I've switched to Linux and figured how to set up, use and debug it already. With this knowledge I never want to go back. Even PC Gaming is no problem anymore with Proton, Lutris etc. The only thing I needed to watch out for was to get an AMD graphics card (NVIDIA is slowly getting there too hopefully), but I needed a new PC anyway so it was the perfect time