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Re: Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Post by wilsonnb3 » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 1:11 AM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #4

This is particularly scary when combined with Windows' propensity to commandeer everything you plug into it. My only W10 machine is an HTPC in my living room, into which I've plugged a 4TB external hard-drive. That box has no other purpose than to run Kodi and serve up my media, so the primary drive inside the PC itself is mostly free and has plenty of hard-drive space. Nonetheless, I periodically open the external i…

To be fair, I also have no concept of an external drive being for my storage and not OS usage. Storage is storage, especially if it’s always plugged in.

Re: Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Post by rincebrain » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 11:57 AM UTC

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #51

ragequitta wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you had this problem on your computer before installing any other software? The problem with most common windows issues is they have absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft. When you have millions of compatible software packages that people install willy nilly, 'debloat' and 'super security' scripts that people seem to think are necessary to save 0 MB of RAM and 3 MB of hard drive space, and just a general popul…

Last time I ran into this problem it was immediately after an in-place upgrade from the Media Creation Utility, because the feature update failed and this was my only recourse. As I expected, nothing helped and I had to do a clean install. I'm not a hardcore Windows tweaker, most of the applications I use at work are either portable[0], or made by Microsoft. I don't believe I've tried the method outlined in that post…

Well, you see, when you fire a whole lot of your OS group's QA department [1] [2] [3] ...

[1] - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140806183208-12100070-why-d...

[2] - https://www.computerworld.com/article/2878026/microsoft-to-b...

[3] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...

Re: Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Post by benjaminjackman » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #23

benjaminjackman wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'll stick with being forced to use it for games only. Steam just got an upgrade that automagically runs a lot of games via a modified version of wine (called proton) sometimes even with better performance than on Windows. It's worked very well for everything I have tried it with so far. So that just leaves games not available in Steam. The biggest of which has to be Blizzard, however a lot of their games already w…

> As of today most games may actually already run better on Linux than on Windows. I think that may be overselling it quite a bit. Every time I've checked to see how a game I'm currently playing would run, there are always caveats. Like random crashes in Rise of the Tomb Raider and Monster Hunter World.

It hasn’t been my experience most of the games I’ve tried have worked pretty flawlessly but I also don’t play a lot of AAA games.