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What would you recommend I do so that I wouldn’t have ran into those issues? Suck it up and keep dealing with the headaches?

I’m no fan of Windows either, but it lets me play games when I want to play them.

Agreed, I switched my gaming rig to Linux for 6 months and was so excited to get things working. Went back to windows on it because I kept going to play with friends, and would often have to mess with Proton versions *(again)* to get the game working.

I really enjoy the Grounded games, so when Grounded 2’s early access was about to release I switched back to avoid dealing with those issues.

Still rocking Linux on my non-gaming devices though, aside from SteamDeck.

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That’s 931GB, so about 1TB.

I would do TreeSize then, make sure to run it as admin (there’s an option once you open it in the top left). Have that scan all your folders on that drive, then expand the biggest folders to see what’s eating all that space up. If you lookup any files that you aren’t sure if they’re important, usually you’ll find some discussions about whether that file is critical or not (for example, if they’re in c:\windows\system32). Comb through each large folder and see what you can clean-up, and that’ll give you some space back hopefully, or at least show you what you’re storing that’s eating it all up.

• You mentioned hard drive, is it a SSD or HDD?
• How big of a drive?
• When you say its getting used up, do you mean its running out of space or the performance is at 100%?

For space:
Check what your largest files are, then see if its safe to remove them. Tools like TreeSize are great for this specific usecase.

For performance:
Narrow down exactly whats causing it to hit 100% usage. To do that, open task manager, click the performance tab, then click the hard drive column. Sort it so they most utilize process is at the top, and that will be whats causing it to max.

Another thing you could try is running these two commands in an elevated powershell/cmd window (right click start, select “run cmd as admin"):
- SFC /ScanNow
- DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

I'm guessing some people don't know (or forgot) that site-to-site and remote access VPN's are a thing, and was the initial purpose of VPN's. Masking or hiding your location became a benefit after the fact, and todays more common client VPN is technically a remote access VPN with a new purpose.

Remote access VPN's are a very common attack vector for companies, look up companies compromised with Fortinet gear and its typically through the firewalls VPN.

In fact, a primary purpose of a VPN, spoofing your IP/geolocation, pretending you are someone you aren't... is pretty much antithetical to a highly controlled system of users with varying levels of access to specific, private areas of that system.

Most modern remote access VPN's do exactly that, so it is not antithetical at all and is how most client VPN's keep you from accessing other users data. I would encourage you to read up on WireGuard and the like, they are fun to learn about and awesome tools when configured properly.

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