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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours ago

Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

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Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours ago
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    Linux users: “See what we mean?”

    Windows users: “La la la! I can’t hear you! Losing my data is clearly better than having to learn something new!”

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      Linux users: “See what we mean?”

      Windows users: “La la la! I can’t hear you! Losing my data is a standard Windows feature!”

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        Your account seems to be marked as a bot, you can fix that in your user settings if it was unintentional

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      I have literally never had one of these things happen to me before. I’m pretty sure people just make them up for clicks at this point.

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        I know people who were affected when a Windows 10 update just straight up deleted all personal files in 2020.

        https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/19/new-windows-10-update-starts-causing-serious-problems/

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        This was an issue that appeared when writing heavy files to disks (50gb+), so people that werent doing it were safe. And don’t worry, its a matter of when LOL. I was a windows “virgin” until one day my system drive appeared encrypted and locked by bitlocker when I never activated it, nor had any recovery key.

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        Oh?

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11

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          the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs

          Jesus, what a scam. Why does anyone put up with this?

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            IMO, the Windows Subsystems is kind of cool. WSL 1 used it too.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AWindows_2000_architecture.svg

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            Windows 11 only comes in 64 bit flavors so this would be a weird feature to leave in place.

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              I’m not using any software that doesn’t have an upward swipe gesture for jumplists. How can people stand losing features like this?

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                I’m also gonna sarcastically cherry-pick!

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                  Are you? I didn’t see it. If you’re trying to make the opposite point, why don’t you cherry pick the other way. Let’s see what you’ve got or if this headline is just bullshit.

                  I’m currently running 50/50 windows/Ubuntu. I’m no Windows fanboy. But I’m also a software dev and I understand deprecating useless shit, something Windows doesn’t do much of.

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      So you mean losing your data on Linux not easy as rm -rd?

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        I love how people immediately downvoted you to hell for this lmfao.

        Like yeah, the guys on the comments: only people use rm -rf, absolutely no scripts use it at all. Something like motherfucking STEAM absolutely didn’t remove people’s data that one time. And hey, their so beloved --no-preserve-root didn’t prevent that from happening. :D

        I love and currently use Linux, but my GOD some Linux people are annoying.

        If something like del C:\*.* somehow ended up deleting your D: drive too, we wouldn’t stop hearing the end of it, but here on Linux systems, it is a perfectly normal thing, and people somehow DEFEND this atrocity lmfao.

        rm shouldn’t exist at its current form. Full stop.

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        There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it’s corrupted your data or straight up killed your disk.

        I’m not going to get angry when I tell my PC to delete a file and it actually does it.

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        “You mean if I delete data, then it’s gone? No matter what platform?”

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        Updating windows is not a command that deletes your data

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          I mean, it shouldn’t be, but apparently it is

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        rm -rf is way more difficult than doing literally nothing, yes.

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        Linux treats users like a person and Windows treats users like children. Be the person Linux trusts you to be.

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          Windows treats users like a product.

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            Cause we are to them. We are nothing more than monetized eye balls.

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        $ su -
        # rm -rf —no-preserve-root /
        

        Should do the trick. (Obviously don’t try it unless you know what you are doing and know what may happen when it hits your EFI variables.)

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        Not with GNU rm, no.

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