| From: dbmacg--- via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I never did get Win10 running on an HP laptop with a 32Gb drive. I gave up | and went Linux, which now leaves me about 21 gb to work with. Windows runs fine-ish on a 32GB (not 33Gb) drive. Windows Update sometimes gets into trouble. Usually when a big change is involved (what we'd think of as an OS release). There are tricks for babying Windows Update through these big updates. But they don't always work. A clean install does work. At least in my limited experience. | I didn't know that Microsoft provides support. First I have heard about it! Yes. Just not very good. And with no commitment to success. Available through email/forum posts, chat, and phone. It's actually OK except for the fact that I don't think that they've actually solved any of my problems. In fairness, I usually don't need support for easy problems. ======== Why did I care? Why would I run Windows? Because I want to use cheap, old, little, low power boxes for things with DRM: Crave TV and in some cases Netflix. Linux and DRM are not a good mix. There's an Android TV app for Crave. It is terrible. Crave/Bell seems to have thought it a valuable jewel: they only supported Amazon's cloned Android until recently. That was a monopolistic choice, not a technical one since the app could be sideloaded onto Android TV. Accessing Crave through their web interface is OK (not great) but it demands that the browser be running on a Windows PC or MacOS. I'm sure that's a stupid unnecessary limitation, but we are talking Bell. I've phoned and complained a few times to no avail.