Almost nine gigabytes in size: Windows update 24H2 creates an undeletable cache file

Hi. Microsoft employee here. That's happening because we don't give a shit and we are being replaced by folks from India

This is the third update in like six months that is horribly broken. There was a windows 10 update that wouldn’t install because the recovery partition that Microsoft’s installer created was too small. The prior win 11 update just won’t install for lots of people and there’s no real rhyme or reason. Now this crap.

They just don’t give a shit anymore. Microsoft had a great run folks, time to move on.

Nothing that cannot be fixed by a Linux install.

All this shit is because some exec had a revelation that windows didn't need QA anymore.

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.

Wasn’t this reported as being a result of the preview build?

Linux Mint. You are welcome.

Hold my beer while I boot to linux.

buT sToRAgE iS cHeaP!!11!1!

I mean, having windows in your cache is already bad luck

Reading all this makes me sad; and I’m relieved to have switched to Mac years ago…

The article in English: https://www.digitec.ch/en/page/almost-nine-gigabytes-in-size-windows-update-24h2-creates-an-undeletable-cache-file-35139