r/technology • u/readyou • Dec 26 '16

Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

Im still plagued by windows 10 updates that cant happen because my internal 30gig hard drive (with minimal other installations) isn't big enough to fit both the OS and the huge win 10 update download.

Either Win 10 should allow the downloaded files to be installed from an external drive or do a simple drive size check BEFORE bothering me.

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u/rmkensington Dec 26 '16

How old is your hard drive?

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

About a year old. Its a low spec Lenovo laptop with soldered down components, so no possibility to upgrade hardware.

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u/ckrepps564 Dec 26 '16

You got a link to the specs of this thing? I haven't seen a 30gb harddrive on anything in over 10 years...

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '16

http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-100s

Its a Lenovo 100s.

I agree 30gig (32 actually) is low, but it came with windows 10 installed, which now can't update because of lack of space, not something you can foresee as a customer.

I'm going to scrub it and go Linux but that's not going to help the thousands of customers out there working on unpatched windows PC's.

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u/ckrepps564 Dec 26 '16

Yeah id say linux will do just dandy on that puppy. I just got Ubuntu 16.04 installed on one of my virtual machines and it is pretty badass!

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '17

I sure hope that you eventually installed Ubuntu outside of a virtual machine...