Windows 10 Will Reserve 7GB of Your Computer's Storage in its Next Major Release So That Big Updates Don't Fail (zdnet.com)

In the next major release of Windows 10, Microsoft will reserve 7GB of your device's storage to resolve a Windows 10 bug thrown up by Windows Update not checking whether a PC has enough storage space before launching after big updates. From a report: As Microsoft warned ahead of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, systems that don't have enough space to install Microsoft's 'quality updates' or new versions of the OS will see an error message explaining there is insufficient storage space. That happens because Windows doesn't check if a device has enough space before initializing. Microsoft's current solution is for users to manually delete unnecessary temporary files and temporarily move important files like photos and videos to external storage devices to make enough space for the update. This problem is more acute for devices with little storage capacity, such as many of the cheap 32GB flash-drive PCs on the market today.

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Re: No they won't

[gweihir]

Automatic updates on Linux work...

Well, if it is the right distro is used and they are set-up right. The last time I had a problem with one was about 7 years ago and it was something related to a custom boot-script, so technically my fault. Of course, when the old release goes out of service (Debian LTS currently gives you 5 years), you may want to update that and that is usually a manual process, but other than that you can fully automatize this and, unlike MS crap, it does not break.