Microsoft confirms Windows 11 automatic deletions of System Restore points
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Corporate America has become a relentless cretinous stalker.
> It's a feature that’s not present in Windows 10, so is a key way to encourage users to move to the latest OS.
Worse still they think their victims enjoy the harassment they receive.
Tech companies: "What if we just removed the 'No' button..?".
What I learned about consent I learned from my OS?
Everyone gets sick of it at their own point. Each thing sends more people to alternatives!
Windows team: whoever’s making your decisions is doing great!
Instead even me, I went back to Windows as major laptop OS back when Windows 7 came out, leaving GNU/Linux for servers and embedded, while enjoying Android/Linux and WebOS/Linux on the other devices.
Microsoft already has their own distro for Azure, they just need to give a bit more relevance to WSL role on Windows laptops, doing an Apple move, and everyone that only cares about UNIX/POSIX without religious attachment to a specific form of UNIX will feel right at home.
Just like out of the sudden, a few years into OS X, there were Apple devices all over the place at FOSDEM.
Mind sharing a bit of info here - what do you mean and what Apple specifically did?
> everyone that only cares about UNIX/POSIX without religious attachment
I've personally helped to start with WSL for several persons, though I cannot say do they care on POSIX and UNIX as a concepts at all.
Suddenly everyone that only cared about some form of UNIX/POSIX, regardless of the source, went into droves into the Apple ecosystem.
These are the same folks that nowadays complain about leaving macOS for some Linux/BSD distribution, as they didn't grasp the actual Apple/NeXT developer culture (see Steve Jobs famous jabs at UNIX in its traditional form).
Microsoft with WSL is kind of approaching the same crowd, those of us that were already happy enough using a mix of VMWare Workstation, Virtual Box, cygwin/migwin, that have had enough of dual bottling, and the usual "everything works but".
From my personal experience and some opinions by others, even here on HN, WSL is the mix which provides best of two worlds for a lot of cases.
So the advice to create restore points every two weeks isn’t needed, is my assumption.
But I’m just a ex-user.
I don't know why they lowered the retention limit from 90 days to 60 days but I'm guessing it has to do with reusing old windows bootloaders to bypass things like secure boot (again). Could also be to prevent issues where you install a new vulnerable bootloader blacklist into your motherboard and do a system restore which tries to load a vulnerable bootloader and leaves your system unbootable.
Either way, in my experience Windows rarely kept over a month of system restore point anyway, as it keeps making new ones every time you install software (updates) or update your system. The default space assigned to the system drive has rarely been big enough to keep more than a week or so of system restore points for me.
Windows Me. Why bring up an operating model from 24 years ago if people got used to a different one now, with SR on by default?
60 days compared to the old 10-90 days doesn't sound too bad for most users, especially if it used to be "mostly 10 days". Probably every installer now creates a restore point quickly reaching the disk quota (used to be 10%).
Not sure why it's not configurable though. After all, it's local storage on my machine and my OS. So based on this alone a decision to enforce any deletion policy that the user can't control is MS being MS again.
Windows now doesn't let you restore restore points from over two months ago. That used to be longer, but they seem to have restricted the maximum retention time for some reason. I'm curious why, but I doubt they just arbitrarily decided to lower the retention time for shits and giggles.