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    [–] techognito@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Also, windows will never brick your machine because of a full hard drive. My wife has a shitty MacBook air. She filled the drive completely. The OS can no longer function. It boots and that’s it. You can’t open anything, you can’t delete anything. Every single click says free up HDD space, even deleting files.

    The almost exact same thing happened to a friend of mine using Windows 11. The machine booted, but he was unable to log in.

    Also windows 10 updates has twice deleted all my files, I am now no longer on windows.

    edit: Thanks to psud@aussie.zone for teaching me something new. (quotes formatting is a thing)

    [–] psud@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You can format quotes better by starting each quoted line with a >

    It looks like

    Also windows 10 updates has twice deleted all my files, I am now no longer on windows.

    [–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    you can format quotes better by starting each quoted line with a >

    Thanks

    [–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Please tell me you had backups

    [–] techognito@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    I did for the most important stuff, but redownloading my game library was not fun.