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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)
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[–] 73 points 4 months ago (37 children)

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.

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  • [–] 61 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Exactly. Sadly I need windows on my laptop for college which is voluntary, so I'm stuck with it until I'm done.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Dual boot?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Your school didn't have computer labs? Ours had a bunch that were nearly always empty with all the software you would need for every course. I used them just because the screens were more comfortable than a laptop and it was often quiet in there.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    We do, but it's a lot easier to have a personal device that you can bring into lectures and labs, and then take home with you.

    With some classes, it is expected that you have a personal device. There are laptops that you can borrow, but again you need to go in to borrow and return it each day and download/upload your files each time.

    IMO what we need is a student society Linux user group that advocates for classes to drop bad software and confirms that a particular class is ok. This would help non-linux users too since some of the windows-macos-only software is straight up spyware.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    I really wanna install Linux on my surface pro X :(

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Can you not? I've installed linux on surface laptops before. Would have thought it'd be the same for their tabtops.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Misread the inflection on "Can you not?" and snorted

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  • [+] -24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Perhaps read about all the garbage Linux puts out. -They don't do the testing, QA, or slow roll outs that Windows does.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    That sounds like a problem that you should deal with even if you stay on Windows 😄 Maybe I just enjoy organizing things

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I do not and so I shouldn't be one to judge

    Is it data that could be recovered if needed? That's where my concern is coming from. Not being able to back it up to fix OS issues might mean that you can't back it up at all

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Not talking here about Linux anymore. If you have the data in only one site, and the data is irreplaceable, you have a problem right now. Having it in a RAID gives you some breathing room, but you still should plan and execute a remote backup, somehow. At least for the really critical data. Fire, floods and other phenomena are hard or impossible to predict, and you could lose everything. If it's not that critical, and you simply don't want the hassle of moving 60TB, I can really empathize with that.

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