• Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    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.

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      22 days ago

      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.