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

Good information. However, the safest fix would be to delete the OS and install literally anything else (https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/ But alas, due to work constraints I understand some are stuck with Windows.

Don't worry. Windows will auto update or update your storage driver and you will loose the data anyway! Good luck while it lasts.

The fortunate thing with "windows because of work constraints" is that this is a work problem. Not a me problem.

Vista was not bad. It gets a lot of hate, but Vista SP1 was rock solid. But 7 came shortly after and Vista never had the Aero Snap/Peek stuff and that was game-changing. 7 should have been a Vista service pack. Vista got shafted.

There were also driver issues, but that’s the fault of lazy vendors. Vista itself was fine, but only just fine.

I like Windows 11 at work well enough (and I have about 30 years of experience with that platform) but at home I’m a happy post-PC Mac user. Honestly there are a couple things Windows does better, and I’m familiar with the platform. But Microsoft needs to learn how to get out of their own way, and the way of power users.

Literally says "if you are forced to use win 11" but ya saw an opportunity to be sanctimonious and positively leapt upon it.

One of the problems with Vista was the push for vendors to mark their machines as Vista ready at all costs, where the minimum requirements were way too low, so a lot of people ended up with their first Vista experience being an anemic one, as opposed to one with the right amount of system power.

Vista was also the first time we saw the UAC elevated privilege pop up which seemed to pop for just the simplest of reasons. Mostly because devs were putting too much of user config in the program files directory, or in the windows system directory. This made it so anytime you changed a user preference the UAC would come and ruin your day. Now we just have the devs shoving everything and anything into %AppData% instead.

I had the same problem when I was in university. My concern with dual booting was if something went wrong, such as a bad windows update borking the bootloader. I didn't have easy access to a second device and I couldn't afford downtime during the term. There are also issues around clock sync or bios updates, and if you NEED windows for one course then its a pain to switch back and forth all day. Finally there are the unknown unknowns, I was new to Linux at the time and didn't know what could go wrong.

I made do with WSL and switched over when I graduated. Looking back, I probably could have switched much sooner, but I get the concern

I was there for Windows Me. Even Windows 95 I don't think people today would believe me how often it blue screened or had to be rebooted. Multiple times per day.

Can you imagine the downvotes and likely bans if someone did the equivalent in a Linux thread?

Disconnect the drives and insert a new one and install Linux. Then reconnect the drives.

Or just unplug the SAS cable or whatever, depending on the hardware.

Well, is horse porn a want or a need?

With the way so many of my (corporate) apps have been behaving lately, I'm convinced they've all been using slopcode.

Just the specific way the apps misbehave is shit I'd never seen before the recent AI bubble.

That's where I was at with it too. I have a desktop which is thankfully Linux and will stay that way, but I figured it was too much effort to have a half Linux/half microslop laptop too. I'll just suffer with a bad laptop until I finish my degree.