I have literally never had one of these things happen to me before. I’m pretty sure people just make them up for clicks at this point.
Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data
riskable@programming.dev 7 months ago
Linux users: “See what we mean?”
Windows users: “La la la! I can’t hear you! Losing my data is clearly better than having to learn something new!”
chunes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hubi@feddit.org 7 months ago
I know people who were affected when a Windows 10 update just straight up deleted all personal files in 2020.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 months ago
Cool story, I’m sure no one using Linux has ever lost any data ever.
BehavioralClam@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
This was an issue that appeared when writing heavy files to disks (50gb+), so people that werent doing it were safe. And don’t worry, its a matter of when LOL. I was a windows “virgin” until one day my system drive appeared encrypted and locked by bitlocker when I never activated it, nor had any recovery key.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 months ago
That’s not how it works lol. It doesn’t just randomly encrypt your hdd and lock you out lol. User error.
riskable@programming.dev 7 months ago
Serinus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs
Jesus, what a scam. Why does anyone put up with this?
TunaLobster@lemmy.world 7 months ago
IMO, the Windows Subsystems is kind of cool. WSL 1 used it too.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Windows 11 only comes in 64 bit flavors so this would be a weird feature to leave in place.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So you mean losing your data on Linux not easy as rm -rd
LupertEverett@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I love how people immediately downvoted you to hell for this lmfao.
Like yeah, the guys on the comments: only people use rm -rf, absolutely no scripts use it at all. Something like motherfucking STEAM absolutely didn’t remove people’s data that one time. And hey, their so beloved
–no-preserve-rootdidn’t prevent that from happening. :DI love and currently use Linux, but my GOD some Linux people are annoying.
If something like
del C:\*.*somehow ended up deleting your D: drive too, we wouldn’t stop hearing the end of it, but here on Linux systems, it is a perfectly normal thing, and people somehow DEFEND this atrocity lmfao.rm shouldn’t exist at its current form. Full stop.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it’s deleted your data.
enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
$ su - # rm -rf —no-preserve-root /
Should do the trick. (Obviously don’t try it unless you know what you are doing and know what may happen when it hits your EFI variables.)
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Linux treats users like a person and Windows treats users like children. Be the person Linux trusts you to be.
bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Windows treats users like a product.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Cause we are to them. We are nothing more than monetized eye balls.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Not with GNU rm, no.
Sidhean@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Updating windows is not a command that deletes your data
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean, it shouldn’t be, but apparently it is
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
rm -rf is way more difficult than doing literally nothing, yes.
BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“You mean if I delete data, then it’s gone? No matter what platform?”
11111one11111@lemmy.world 7 months ago
otter@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Your account seems to be marked as a bot, you can fix that in your user settings
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 months ago
This comment of theirs reads like a comment by a Lemmy upvote farming bot tbf