I'm always impressed by people's creative ability to put a negative spin on almost anything. Particularly to generate hate-clicks.<p>In this case they're implementing Seamless Updates, which should substantially reduce downtime and improve roll-backs during update installation (a major complaint) but instead of focusing on the benefit, they focus on the disk space loss.<p>The reason it takes up space on Windows, Android, and Chrome OS is that the reserved area holds a chunk of the operating system which is updated in the background before restart. When a restart occurs, the reserved and active slices are swapped (and reversion can be rapidly conducted for failures/roll-backs).<p>This is a nice quality of life improvement for a common complaint.
I can't answer this because the most likely location for the answer [1] is locked behind a beta program access or something, but where do they plan on taking the reserved storage from? I assume they're not going to try to repartition the drive? It sounds like they're just using filesystem features to carve it out of an existing partition, but I'd like to be sure. My laptop is currently dual-boot, but if Microsoft starts blindly mucking with partition tables it's gonna go single-boot Linux right quick. (I <i>expect</i> it's not that, but I'd like to be sure.)<p>As long as they're staying out of the partition table, this sounds like a good idea to me, honestly.<p>[1]: <a href="https://insider.windows.com/en-us/ih/?contentid=2762bf7a-bef0-4835-8e4c-04ae8e3ed299&contenttype=quest" rel="nofollow">https://insider.windows.com/en-us/ih/?contentid=2762bf7a-bef...</a>
Interesting... Microsoft is forcing everyone to update their machines for quite some time... I've noticed that MS is forcing updates on my machine about a year ago and out of frustration I asked about it on this forum four months ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029216" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18029216</a>)
Please try it. Go to Computer Management/Services and Applications/Services and then stop and disable Windows Updates. It's a matter of days before it will be back and running again.
My next machine is going to be Apple.
One thing that interests me: How does a Windows 10 install + 7gb reserved space compare with a current Windows 7 install in terms of disk usage? I thought Windows 7 was "fatter" than 10?
Linux has the exact same feature, and has had it since approximately forever. By default, 5% of the disk space on any system partition is reserved for use by the superuser after the main 95% portion is filled up. And system updates run with superuser privileges, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am glad that Windows is an opt-out of updates. We all know the majority of people never update anything. Personally I opt out and manually update my systems but most people just need it to happen.