c/pcmasterrace · by sanitation@lemmy.today · 28d

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

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/06/microsoft-admits-a-windows-11-bug-is-eating-up-to-500gb-of-storage-verify-if-you-are-affected/

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64 Comments

forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 98 pts · 28d (10 replies)

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

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 13 pts · 28d (7 replies)

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.

atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 28d

why have a boring ui with one billion choices when you can make them fight

forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 27d (5 replies)

You can game just fine on Debian, skill issue? And Debian will be around and doing great long after your vanity distro has disappeared.

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 6 pts · 27d (1 reply)

Are you from the anti Linux front for people without any chill? Because now I want to try Windows again.

Chill dude. Don't make a Distro your center of life.

forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 27d

lol, you really took that seriously? You're the one who needs to chill.

kraxla@piefed.social · -1 pts · 25d (2 replies)

My Steam didnt even start on Debian, its not easy.

blah3166@piefed.social · 2 pts · 23d

I installed the flatpak version and it worked without any tinkering, even Windows games. I've tried the "official" install method (a few years ago now) and ran into problems. I go for flatpak nowadays for simplicity. Lets me have a rock-solid OS and up-to-date apps.

forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 25d

First edit /etc/apt/sources.list to add contrib, if it's not already there.

Then:

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt update
apt install steam:i386

AmyAye@nord.pub · 2 pts · 28d

Yeah but Linux does this shit too with old kernels.

possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 27d

make my 49" monitor work natively at 1440p and 240hz and we have a deal. until then, I'm not going to be making my own custom edid file.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 28d (5 replies)

$ uname -r
6.8.0-124-generic

Not affected.

baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 28d (4 replies)

not even on kernel 7 yet, pathetic

i use arch btw

BurnedDonutHole@ani.social · 7 pts · 28d (3 replies)

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 28d (2 replies)

Haven't reinstalled this machine in 12 years

┻━┻ ︵╰(°□°╰)

BurnedDonutHole@ani.social · 7 pts · 28d (1 reply)

You have a machine? ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 28d

Goddamn, I sometimes forget the times we live in. I forget my privilige.

Reygle@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 28d (12 replies)

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.

AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social · 14 pts · 28d (2 replies)

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 💁🏻

Reygle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d (1 reply)

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

chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 28d

Which is why I use Linux on my devices, and WSL on my work device.

Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 27d (1 reply)

They’ve improved nothing at all in that time

A huge chunk of my work used to be fixing things after a client’s Windows OS went tits-up after an update for seemingly no reason.

These days, those cases are incredibly rare and when they happen there’s usually an underlying hardware condition.

Windows has been able to roll back botched updates for about 10 years now. I’d say that qualifies as an improvement.

Reygle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d

In my experience, updates that break boot are up 250% since 7, and their "roll back" for "Feature" and "quality" upgrades fails 85% of the time, "Sorry we weren't able to uninstall.."

Not to mention that they've disabled the default registry backup since 10. Go ahead- check the "regback" folder. There's nothing in it. Don't even get me started on auto-bitlockering.

Odd how we have such different experiences the last 10 years.

snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d (3 replies)

Use Startallback and get your 7 experience back.

BrickEater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d (2 replies)

Is it just an OS editor basically?

thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 28d (1 reply)

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.

aloofPenguin@piefed.world · 1 pts · 27d

the software doesn't get removed after the period, just can't download updates

wish I knew that back then. had a huge interest in customization and stuff. Oh well, too late now....

thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 28d (2 replies)

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.

Reygle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d (1 reply)

Hopefully it's not allowed through your firewall ><

thenoirwolfess@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 27d

Ha yeah. It can't even use the internet so I jump through a few hoops to get the software on the 'drive'

PixeIOrange@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 28d (1 reply)

Is windows 11 the bug?

some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 27d

It's not the bug, it's the nest

FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 28d (4 replies)

I don't get how every windows update they brick a percentage of their user base, and people still haven't considered switching to Linux, or at the very least a mac. This happens every year, sometimes twice a year.

AceTKen@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 28d (3 replies)

Well, if you're looking for an actual answer... I couldn't get audio working on Linux on my laptop. I had to switch back in order to watch movies.

FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 28d (2 replies)

Was more speaking in hyperbole. I can understand why when someone tells me their personal story. I could tell you is probably a driver issue, or I'd you meant Bluetooth sometimes mediatek chips don't play well with Linux. But I'm sure part of the reason you don't want to switch because you don't want someone like me droning over something you don't fully understand yet or really care about. You just want to watch your movie and I'm with you on that. Just having gone through learning linux it feels much easier to fix a Bluetooth issue than it is to deal with your computer potentially getting bricked once a year.

AceTKen@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 28d (1 reply)

Heh, it's probably on me. I was just test driving it. I have no doubt I could have figured it out if I had spent more time.

It was just the HDMI audio from a standard Intel 14th gen processor. Didn't feel it was anything too out of the ordinary, but have tried about 6 releases over 3 distros and not a one has worked.

FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 28d

Nah theres a lot of debugging you gotta do sometimes, wouldnt say its you. I have a little beelink that has issues that none of my other PCs have and it's just not important enough for me to care to address. Just how it is and no shame in it.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 28d (6 replies)

I'm not affected.

You know why.

warmaster@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 28d (1 reply)

You know why, btw™

BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 28d

"Btw, I'm using you know what"

Janx@piefed.social · 7 pts · 28d

You're vegan and do CrossFit?

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 2 pts · 28d (1 reply)

Your disk is only 320GB?

warmaster@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d

420 GB, backup on Backblaze-it

Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d

A fellow windows 10 user?

lukaro@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 28d (1 reply)

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

warmaster@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 28d

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.

ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 11 pts · 28d (1 reply)

That's okay, I have a 1TB disk.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 28d

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

Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 28d (4 replies)

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.

orochi02@feddit.org · 2 pts · 28d

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

FoxAlive@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 28d (2 replies)

Bazzite s good because its immutable so you can't fuck it up as easily.

Kind of disappointing when what you want isn't in the discover store but I imagine most people won't really be bothered by that.

Cachyos is another good one if you want handheld mode option, and in my opinion is better than bazzite.

Ubuntus not bad if you are a noob because it is really easy to google for and figure stuff out, and software wise I think most stuff works for Ubuntu. But for numerous reasons I do not support or like Ubuntu anymore. And I used them sense xenial xeurs or whatever until focal fossa was released, then started moving to arch based.

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 27d (1 reply)