That bitch....

- Run a Win10 in a VM
- Have >20GB of free space on host
- W10 decides to download updates
- your host OS runs out of free space
- VM gets paused due to lack of free space

20GB for an update.. seriously..

seriously...

I mean..

Seriously....

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????
*eye twitching*

Probably the rollback feature. I think it makes a copy of the core files when updating. So you have the copied files, the files that are being updated, and the update itself.

@RememberMe boi was I happy living with teeny-tiny Linux updates....

Oh, great!

I freed-up 12+ GB more to continue. So..... here's a OSD popup: "/home is short on disk space. 1.0 GB free remaining"

OH
MY
GOD

@netikras

"The upgrade may require up to twice as much storage space on your PC. According to a Microsoft advisory, the new version of Windows 10 — version 1903 — will require 32 GB or more of space to be installed."

@Jilano Oh Jesus Christing Fuck....

So yeah, there's that....

Just goes to prove windows and most modern shit is software bloated, cuz no don’t cares about space any more, all idiots who just think disk space is cheap and abundant so fuck it write whatever code it takes and ship it rather than refine, and refactor and optimize... other portion has todo with writing a lot of windows in c# rather C... yeah it uses c++ but only because they know it can’t efficiently be done in C# nor could certain features be possible as c# isn’t low enough..

Sorry but all OSs should be written in only C /c++ nothing else or you’ll definitely ensure bloat.. not saying c/c++ code can’t be bloated but you at least on a better foot to start

Jeebus, 32 GB "more" for 1903! So are we up to 50GB for the OS now?

~/Virtual$ date;sudo qemu-img convert -O qcow2 win10.qcow2 win10_moved.qcow2 ;date
Kt rugp. 29 17:50:24 EEST 2019
Kt rugp. 29 17:52:19 EEST 2019

~/Virtual$ du -sh *
61G CentOS_ora.qcow2
27G win10_moved.qcow2
70G win10.qcow2

soo yeah.. That crappy update did cost me 43GB. Awesome...

Time to throw away that trash

@QuanticoCEO That why electonics are a lot more interesting in this regard. You have to optimize your code as you cant simply get more memory or a faster processor to run your software. It is this or nothing.

But then arduino comes along and smashes this idea to bits.

@JFK422 aurdino gives less experienced people false confidence in their abilities to engineer software for embedded systems

@QuanticoCEO you sound almost like you dislike Arduino and the ideas behind it

Lol, I use arduino for embedded stuff at work. One is a 50uS remote trigger for a scope like device. Sending data down a fiber and triggering the receiver. It is an 80MHz arduino "like" device. We also use prebuilt arm boards some of our official "embedded" devices.

Edit:

I used to do these one off embedded systems on PICs using assembler though. Arduino is so much easier for quick hacks.

This is a rollback feature in the event things go sideways and windows doesn't boot.

It's a bitch when on a small hard drive and easily deletable.

Why windows has to take a copy of the drive for a rollback these days is concerning, it's like they don't trust their own updates to actually work.

@C0D4 That makes sense, honestly. Microsoft treats its users as QA nowadays, and who would trust them with anything?

@Jilano Nobody's asking the real question. WHY THE FUCK DOES WINDOWS UPDATE NOT CHECK IF IT HAS ENOUGH SPACE, HOW FUCKING IDIOTIC AND UNPROFESSIONAL IS THAT?