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sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours ago

Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected

www.windowslatest.com

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Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected

www.windowslatest.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours ago
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Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is silently eating up to 500GB of your storage, fix coming July 14, 2026.
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  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    33 minutes ago
    $ uname -r
    6.8.0-124-generic
    

    Not affected.

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    It’s not nice for Microsoft to call Windows 11 a “bug”. It’s true, but it isn’t nice…

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    You can fix it today: https://www.debian.org/distrib/

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      I like Debian, but if I wanted to play games it wouldn’t be my first distro to choose.

      https://distrochooser.de/ or similar might help to decide.

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      Yeah but Linux does this shit too with old kernels.

  • PixeIOrange@lemmy.world
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    Is windows 11 the bug?

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    15-20 years ago I’d regularly find Windows 7 PCs that had stuffed boot drives using the \Windows\Temp folder with corrupt or “could not install, retried” updates. They’ve improved nothing in all that time. The only thing they’ve “improved” is the UI, which is at best debatable. I think most people would now be absolutely thrilled to go back to 7’s user interface today.

    Using Windows at this point is a sign of someone too lazy to try something new, glued to a game run by assholes that won’t check a box on their end to allow their anti-cheat to function elsewhere, or completely comfortable in the Windows ecosystem prison system.

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      Enterprises/corporations exist. Many of us have to use Windows for work, and no, I can’t just go to the CEO and demand we move to Linux 💁🏻

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        Does your enterprise have requirements about your personal devices? I’d argue they don’t.

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      I have a Win XP VM on my server for the nostalgia, plus if I want to sync my iPod Touches to iTunes the best compatible way was a VM running XP and the appropriate iTunes version.

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        Hopefully it’s not allowed through your firewall ><

    • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
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      Use Startallback and get your 7 experience back.

      • BrickEater@lemmy.world
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        Is it just an OS editor basically?

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          Yep. If you don’t mind a company subscription model (the software doesn’t get removed after the period, just can’t download updates) Stardock for Windows is awesome. Fences were invaluable for me and they also sell skin customisation that achieves this same idea.

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    Desktop/Handheld Gamers!

    Bazzite comes formatted with compression and deduplication enabled for its BTRFS file system.

    So your games shadercache and prefixes won’t eat any extra space. (Compared to Steam OS).

    Am a happy Bazzite user for ~3 years now.

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      Got a link so i can Read up more Abt that?

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    I’m not affectred, Microsoft said my PC was too old so I tthem to fuck off and don’t use their OS anymore.

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      Same boat, after that happened with 1 PC, I went all in: Ublue distros in 4 PCs, 1 Steam Deck (Steam OS), 2 servers running Proxmox VE.

      ~3 years now since the switch. Freaking loving it.

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    .db-wal

    How has Microsoft bollocksed up using SQLite?

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      The greed for telemetry. It’s what’s powering this particular bug.

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    I’m not affected.

    You know why.

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      Your disk is only 320GB?

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      You’re vegan and do CrossFit?

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      You know why, btw™

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        “Btw, I’m using you know what”

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    That’s okay, I have a 1TB disk.

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      These days you can raise a family on that kind of money.

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