Adam DallianceIf you don't turn a #Windows10 computer on since 2019 and then you do turn it on how long do the updates expected to take?
Been about four hours so far. Still spinning.
I reckon it'll still be spinning in the morning.
I was right, it is indeed still spinning in the morning. And indeed come lunchtime when I actually got out of bed.
🤔
I guess it has to be rebooted? I wonder if that will work.
On a reboot it's complaining that the 2018 update failed to install and has given me the option to wipe all data and reinstall.
Which I have taken. Only it tells me I still need 8Gb more free space somehow even though I've asked it to delete everything.
Maybe modern windows just doesn't fit on this partition any more?
I'm trying to remove programs so it has the space to reinstall but most of the programs seem to be on the adequately sized D drive not the too-small C drive.
If it would put it's new-os-install-download into D instead then it would have room. I dunno how to suggest that to it.
Right-click, uninstall, yes-confirm, yes really-really as an admin confirm....
Right-click, uninstall, yes-confirm, yes really-really as an admin confirm....
Right-click, uninstall, yes-confirm, yes really-really as an admin confirm....
[You know in #debian you can just check them all and select "uninstall" and it does it all at once. Or you can paste the names of the packages into the command-line options. *sigh*.]
Right-click, uninstall, yes-confirm, yes really-really as an admin confirm....
Right-click, uninstall, yes-confirm, yes really-really as an admin confirm....
Right-click, uninstall, yes-confirm, yes really-really as an admin confirm....
Nope. Still can't make enough space. The driver-store looks huge and weirdly regular with dozens of file-repostiory systems with the same structure and sizes.
Presumably all 20gb of that is needed.
hiberfil.sys and pagefile look large, but probably can't delete them either.
Recovery/Customizations/USMT.ppkg is huge, but that is probably the very thing which it is about to try and use to recover the whole system from I guess.
Does it need that to try and wipe the system?
No idea. Seems risky to delete it.
Ahha, there's something that I tried to delete already. The "Daz" app has left behind 6GB of library data even when the app is uninstalled.
That should be enough!
And now it's stuck in a reboot loop.
Windows likes to reboot a lot, often without warning.
Sometimes, it just shuts itself down in the middle of the night assuming it can system-restore after the reboot by the time you wake up and you won't even notice.
I notice, coz my machines default to Linux and I wake up to a different operating system and a half-finished overnight-task.
It likes to reboot even more during installs and stuff.
My laptop on the other hand hates rebooting. It's screen in particular has about a 1/4 chance of failing to sync properly and shutting down on any given boot. Then you have to give it a minute and try again.
Windows has just jumped right back to boot-screen at least six times in a row now. Sometimes it shows an "installing" spinner so briefly it only flashes 64% and then reboots again. Other times it just black-screens until I am forced to reboot it.
This wasn't supposed to take all day.
I guess sometimes windows just stops working if you leave it alone too long.
Like a hamster.
Right. Windows is dead. Ubuntu didn't make nearly this much fuss when I didn't upgrade it for years, but it did at least get regular turning-on.
I guess I will just play a Linux-compatible game at my birthday party then.
What kinda 4-joystick #4player #linux #games are there? Is there like a #gauntlet style one?
If it also works on steam-deck that's even better.
I have money.
Turns out that even though they don't *say* that they'll run on Linux, and trying to make it do so isn't *supported* exactly, it is actually very easy to have your Linux system's Steam app have a go at emulating Windows games.
You just gotta pick an emulator version from a "compatibility" config property and the install button becomes activated.
The big 3d-world games my machine seems to struggle with. Suspect this machine may have no proprietary hardcore graphics drivers installed.
But things like platformers and 2d-shooters and simple 3d stuff is working without any trouble in general.
There's a database to check if users are reporting it working or not - protondb.com - but they reckoned Gauntlet would work but it doesn't. So DB proving not entirely reliable.
Gauntlet doesn't work on the steamdeck without internet either for some dumb reason. So that also doesn't really matter in this case.
Steam should put a massive warning on games that won't run offline. Big red cross. I would mostly not buy them if I knew in advance.
Santiago Cézar 
@pre Broforce.
Indie game, hilarious co-op, Linux Native, and I've never played gauntlet myself, but both seem to share the run and gun aspect.
