Microsoft released the Windows 11 autumn update at the beginning of October. However, a bug has crept in. The installation creates an almost nine gigabyte cache file that cannot be deleted.
  • humblebun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1745·
    6 months ago

    Hi. Microsoft employee here. That’s happening because we don’t give a shit and we are being replaced by folks from India

    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      78·
      6 months ago

      I hope you’re having an amazing day! I am a windows fan and user, just like YOU! I will do my very best to help you solve your issue. I know you have had a bad experience and it must have been very hard for you. But rest assured, i will help you to the BEST of my ability!

      Please try running the troubleshooter.

      (troubleshooter doesn’t fix anything)

      Try reinstalling windows. Goodbye!

      And then they fuck off and stop reponding.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
        50·
        6 months ago

        This is every forum response on MS forums, it’s infuriating.

        “I have super specific error code with super specific driver that was changed with super specific windows update.”

        “Me too!”

        “Same, here’s some more info from event viewer”

        “Maybe try uninstalling the device”

        “Uninstall my WiFi card?”

        “Hi I’m bob from Microsoft you should run sfc scan now and that will fix it”

        “That didn’t fix it”

        “Ok here’s how to reinstall windows”

    • GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      6 months ago

      As former MSFT employee who just got replaced by India… I’m kind of relieved I’m gone. Working for them felt like working for the bad guys

      • humblebun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        72·
        6 months ago

        What did you expect? That corps would solve climate change or what?

        The pigs on the very top are secured and that’s enough

    • PoorlyWrittenPapyrus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      As someone working in the Microsoft ecosystem at an MSP, we seriously wonder what the fuck goes on over there. We’re supposed to defend everything y’all do which is getting really hard to justify without sounding like idiots.

      • humblebun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        32·
        6 months ago

        Hey there. Learn how to stop carrying. A job doesn’t define who you are and you’re at least free to be anyone outside the working hours.

        I learned to be a cog in this inhumane machine in exchange for a paycheck

    • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      6 months ago

      There was a former employee that talked about it, they moved from actually testing on real hardware to automated VM testing and started missing a lot more

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      This is very true. I remember back in the day I tossed my old drive full of viruses and windows and I started using Linux. That was 1998? No, it was definitely 2000 already. That was a really easy erase. I guess you could also just reuse the same drive. But that one has the click of death, so no.

  • kshade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    6 months ago

    You could fit an entire modern OS in that space, together with all the drivers, a web browser, an office suite, graphics editor, an IDE and a compatibility layer for running Windows applications.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      51·
      6 months ago

      Yup, my Linux install is a bit over 10GB, which honestly surprises me and means I probably should clean stuff up, because usually my Linux base install is around 8GB. After a quick look, I have several old versions of compilers and runtimes that can be cleaned up w/o breaking anything.

      I can’t imagine thinking that an 8GB cache is fine, and that’s nothing compared to the size of the rest of the OS…

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2729·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, but don’t get in the way of the Windows evil, Linux savior movement here on lemmy or you’ll get downvoted to oblivion. Pointing out simple facts apparently means you’re a shill.

      At least that’s what I’ve seen in all the Windows posts over the last couple months. Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        411·
        6 months ago

        Not sure what changed from before that, but something definitely did.

        People got fed up with Microsoft putting undeletable 9-gigabyte cache files on their systems? And AI junk that screenshots everything you do? And surveillance? And making the OS more hostile and worse in general with every release?

        Lemmy exists because people got fed up with the corporate analogue. You’ll see a lot of the same sentiment in other matters too.

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          320·
          6 months ago

          I’m just pointing out that it’s a sudden and extreme change in commentary with no ramp up. The kind of thing that in other contexts, like politics, often comes from something like a coordinated attack or disinformation scheme.

          Real world testing of a new propaganda campaign system on a topic most users don’t give a shit about (Windows vs Linux), in a niche corner of the internet (Lemmy), isn’t exactly an unlikely scenario.

          • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            6 months ago

            I remember the browser wars, that’s when microsoft exposed themselves how shitty they were to the world IMO.

            That’s a long time ago. Years and years.

            The ramp up started then, IMO.