this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
497 points (98.4% liked)

Technology

59612 readers
3414 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
497
Almost nine gigabytes in size: Windows update 24H2 creates an undeletable cache file (www.digitec.ch)
submitted 1 month ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
138 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] kshade@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month 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...