downloaded that hypr light drifter an dit crashes on starte up. the official word is to uninstall all of your graphics drivers and reinstall them and do the same damn thing fir directx. So how/ I get options to ujpdate my drivers but things are kept nice and tucked away from saverage consumer person.
Am beginning to recall why i switched to doing all my gaming on handheld consoles right about now
Bumping because I aināt done with the thread yet (did anybody ever figure out an efficient way to save threads for offline use?)
Iāll add it by recommending Windirstat
Amazing program that visualizes your storage use.
FWIW I think itās all sorted now, just had to change some cache-related settings I think.
I used to use ACDSee, so itās nice having something similar again!
This is something Iād always wished to exist, thank you.
yes windirstat is VITAL for all users, something like that should just be baked into windows ffs
i put it in that ninite link in the beginning of the thread, but yeah, iāll evangelize about windirstat until my last breath
I think windirstat saved my life last month. Kept getting dropped frames during video capture on my ssd at work, then I noticed like a third of the drive was devoted to Premiereās temp files. Got rid of those and its been working great so farā¦
Yeah, I used a different one (Space Sniffer (and previously Space Monger)) 'cause I donāt like that glowy gradient look, but vv handy.
Why? Isnāt HDD space cheap and plentiful?
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the more HDD space you have, the more analytics are required in order to manage that space. i donāt get your logic here at all.
e: you know, i think i get your point. you think because you can get a lot of storage that you shouldnāt need to manage it. defeating the purpose of having all that storage in the first place. if you never get close to using all of it (noting that āusing all of itā will vary heavily by drive type, etc. using all of it does not, in this context, necessarily mean filling the drives to the brim with data), never close enough to consider managing it, you have too much. also, cheap is a highly relative term in this scenario, and hard drives fail.
this doesnāt even take into account managing of multiple drives, particularly for backup purposes, which attempting to do efficiently in only win explorer is a recipe for frustration
maybe you donāt download nearly as many things as i do. itās hard for me to imagine having so much space that i couldnāt easily fill that shit up with audio, video, games. i have hundreds of steam games, casually filled a 2TB entirely with lossless music (and was struggling because there are so many more gigabytes i want)ā¦ yeah, no
I get the importance of backups for certain files, but I donāt think windirstat is a backup tool?
It really sounds like youāre taking HDD space management a lot farther than I ever had to, yeah. I mean, I downloaded a couple dozen Wii and PS2 games lately, but even then I am doing fine on an 80GB internal HDD. I just donāt know what one would use a program like windirstat for, because I never felt the need to use a program like windirstat.
In general though the way I see it is, if I donāt have to employ analytics to manage my hard drive space, then I have exactly the right amount.
windirstat is not a backup tool, but it is incredibly useful for dealing with files of great quantity and size. itās very useful to be able to visualize this data over multiple drives and sort by size. i think weāre thinking on different scales here.
anyway itās a free program, itās easy to use, and there are obvious and brilliant applications it handles better than anything else iāve laid eyes on. it speaks for itself!
Maybe Iām gonna discover those, once I escape the dark ages of computation.
Before you install Windows 10, you must first create the universe.
every time i look at the thread title i resist the urge to answer POSIX
i really hate the way adobeās scratch disk junk is set up and i currently use a ramdisk for it then backup to an external when i need to (lightroom).
i donāt have more ram than storage but i canāt directly use anything over usb for it and argh
someday iāll build this san,
RE: threads; using Mhtml format, give that one a goā¦
WizTree is mush faster than WinDirStat, especially when it comes to lots of small files. It traverses the NTFS metadata directly instead of calling FindNextFile a billion times. You can do the same thing with both, but I appreciate the craft of WinDirStatās approach.
Any chance this thread could be moved to General Input?
thanks for moving this thread.
iām probably going to be helping with setting up a windows 10 machines soon. at the moment my plan is to:
reinstall windows to get rid of stuff that comes with the laptop - just lenovo stuff and mcaffee LiveSafe i think ā¦ maybe i should not worry about a reinstall?
maybe install a small arch linux distribution - but the ssd is only 128GB so maybe i donāt have room for this?
install libreoffice and hope it is compatible enough with Word documents that i dont need to buy Microsoft Office. is libreoffice the best free word replacement?
explain to the owner of the laptop that windows is going to have to download updates for a day or so before they can use it (i think??)
any answers to those questions, or any other info is greatly appreciated. this is probably the wrong thread.
Iād definitely reinstall. The Lenovo stuff is kinda annoying. Might need to replace some drivers too, 'cause mine has some OEM ones that mean I canāt just get updates from Intel and NVidia, and have to get them through Lenovo >:| (I keep meaning to fix that / make sure itās okay)
Is that SSD all there is? My Arch install is like ~9GB + home directory (depends whatās in there and whatās being shared between OSes) + swap if you need it.
If I understand the situation right though: do you want to be maintaining someone elseās Linux install?
Libreoffice is still the one to go for, yeah.
Dunno about the last one, but that doesnāt sound right?