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I'm am too far removed from windows to understand what this comment means ๐
It's "defrag your hard drive" in a new hat and even less useful
I mean, I've had some luck professionally with strange intermittent issues being resolved simply by running those commands. For intermittent issues once I get stumped I'll run the sfc/dism commands while scanning the event viewer for any other leads and about half the time I'll leave the user with a "okay monitor and let us know if the issue returns" and sometimes that's enough to get rid of the issue
True, but the fact that sfc gets thrown out as a fix to everything under the sun makes it look like your OS is a self corrupting piece of shit.
Which i know, accurate, but you shouldn't advertise
SFC is the system file checker, used to check a Windows OS install's files for any corruption and to replace them with legit working files. DISM (if I remember right) is a tool for turning a Windows install into install media, and has some similar features for ensuring the installed OS has no corrupted file issues.
So pretty much the option to "Verify Integrity of Game Files" for Steam Games, but for the OS. And also by Microsoft, so of questionable usefulness/functionality.
I spent almost 5 years in the trenches of tech support in a Windows environment. I still used those commands as a hail mary when I didn't have any other ideas and needed some extra time to research. I think I've only seen it actually help three times.
Loosely speaking...
SFC โ
# pacman --database --checkDISM โ
# pacstrap ...