Atleast, you get Recall, only the most invasive piece of spyware.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nah, the Windows folder is larger than that. There’s an easy way to reclaim all that wasted space.
Wow. That’s crazy.
* posted from my Windows-free PC *
Thanks for adding absolutely nothing to the conversation
Just install Linux and stop stalling. :)
I’m not installing that cringe
I think it adds something important to the headline makes it seem like every windows pc has the issue. This user is letting us know they don’t have the problem.
Sorry. I just got so, so fed up with Microsoft’s bull shit recently that I just went ahead and got rid of it.
I’ve been dreaming about this possibility for 20 years now and it’s finally doable.
They had something really good with Windows 10 but over time they made it worse and worse. Adding “features” nobody wants each update like Copilot and advertisements.
Also Windows 10 was supposed to be a rolling release and the last Windows we’d ever install. Then Windows 11 came out and it’s the worst Windows OS they have ever made in my opinion, and that’s including Win ME.
My comment, even if it didn’t bring anything to the conversation, I think reflects that a lot of technical users on here have started doing. Migrating to Linux and laughing at the problems that Microsoft keeps creating for their users.
Microsoft never did anything to me, I don’t know what you bitches are whining about
You have the right to your opinion.
But there’s no need to go around insulting people.
I use Linux, but let’s be honest here: every operating system requires space to function properly. While Linux is known for taking up less storage space (especially distros such as Alpine), as you install things, it will demand space, and that includes future updates. With the recent additions of AI within Windows, 8GB is compatible with the size of neural weights or datasets (speaking as someone who has dealt with AI in a technical/development capacity). If they’re registered as “Temporary files” from “old installation”, I guess it has to do with some re-training of Windows AI tools. I’m not discussing the merit of those AI tools (whether they’re useful or not to the final user), but AI tools, among all modern features, takes space.
