On 5/16/2012 1:28 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 15/05/2012 09:28 PM, Warp wrote:
>> Windows has basically always been infamous for taking more and more
>> disk space over time, no matter how much you try to clean it. It just
>> grows. No other OS I know of does this.
>>
>> Apparently that behavior is now an official feature that cannot be
>> turned off.
>
> In summary, "when you install an update, we keep a copy of the old
> version as well as the updated one".
>
> To be completely fair, I've seen Linux package managers that won't
> redownload stuff you've already downloaded once. The difference being,
> presumably there's a way to safely delete the cached content if you want
> to.
>
> I've always thoroughly disliked Micro$oft's attitude of "if our software
> isn't fast enough, buy more hardware". But since there is precisely
> nothing I can do to change it, it's pointless to complain...
Well. No direct, or obvious, way, but, in principle, you can do it, if 
you know how. Which is like the #2 feature of Windows: No one has a 
frakking clue how, especially the people selling Windows, or hardware 
(um.. paid not to know? lol).

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