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Almost nine gigabytes in size: Windows update 24H2 creates an undeletable cache file (www.digitec.ch)
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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

This is very true. I remember back in the day I tossed my old drive full of viruses and windows and I started using Linux. That was 1998? No, it was definitely 2000 already. That was a really easy erase. I guess you could also just reuse the same drive. But that one has the click of death, so no.