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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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow. That's crazy.

* posted from my Windows-free PC *

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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