Anyone who has to use Windows and suffers this, PowerToys is your friend. Locksmith identifies what's locking your file and allows you to free it up. Dunno why PowerToys isn't bundled by default tbh.

Dunno why PowerToys isn't bundled by default tbh.
PowerToys give the user more power, which goes directly against Microsoft's own goal.
Also, less seriously, "toys" implies the user might enjoy the experience, and you know they can't let that happen.
- Shut up. It is literally made by Microsoft. As a place to experiment what to include in Windows. Don't argue with strawmen
There's a list of locked files under shares in computer management
Cause they’re too busy finding new ways to bundle ads.
I always thought it wasn’t included by default to mitigate malware damage to a system. Malware needs to be just a little bit more advanced if it can’t hijack Powertools to do what it wants
I recently discovered Resource Monitor (resmon) can do that, too!
I was using Unlocker waaaay back, I loved it. Since then I wasn't looking for alternatives, but since resmon also can do that, it's more than enough.

mv: cannot move 'a' to 'b': Device or resource busy

sudo?
- sudo!

My first attempt at running Arch, I managed to fuck it up so badly that I had to write a script to write zeros to every bit of my HDD. Fun times.

Wtf did you do lol I’m scared
- Honestly don't even remember, but it was in my peak "know enough to be dangerous" days in college. I almost certainly didn't have to go that nuclear to fix it, but that's what I did.
  Take 2 of Arch, after that wipe was completed, went pretty well. It revived an old piece of shit laptop for another few years before its motherboard gave out.

Meanwhile chromeOS had a stroke because I asked to set a wallpaper

Windows, too. Turns out, there's a hard-coded image size limit. If you've got a ~5k screen or bigger, or equivalent size virtual desktop with multiple monitors - you gotta find a way to compress it below limit. Nope, webp is not accepted, even though it is perfectly capable of using it.
ChromeOS is so funny because it's either way too anal about what you can do or there's a part they forgot to harden against end users and the power of linux spews forth with endless destructive potential

Inodes can be kept active by unlinked filehandles, a fun way to spend a afternoon figuring out where all the space went.

Lsof is your friend.
- killall is your friend. But the UNIX version.

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Nowadays it would be $19.99 per month and it's a one year contract that renews three months before expiration.
- And you lose the 3 months if you cancel before renewal

Windows: Noooo, You can't delete and merge this partition!!!1!!!!1!

Linux:

PARTITION DELETION

Had a call to sort an issue where someone couldn't open an excel file because they already had it open don't know why that needed a warning over a simple window switch to the sheet they wanted but hey stopped me doing what I was doing for nothing

"Hello, yes, IT department? I think my co-worker's keyboard is missing all their punctuation marks. Yes, it's making communication very difficult."
- Funny that they managed to spell “don’t” and “couldn’t” correctly.
Yeah, needing to use Microsoft Office for everything at work is a damn pain. This one time I am trying to close Word, but then I must have clicked the top right X one too many times so the "You can't close Word until the Closing... dialog is dismissed" dialog pops up, which itself interrupts the Closing dialog...
You also can't open two spreadsheets that have the same filename. I'm sure that's led to a helpdesk call or two.
- I lost a lot of respect for Microsoft when I first saw that issue. It's such an easy to avoid limitation. Like probably a similar level of difficulty to remove that limitation than to write the error message explaining it, unless it's more of a spaghetti mess than I'm expecting it to be.

The Tux reminds me of playing Super Tux Kart today... I really hate that GIMP mascot now,

"oh you want to delete your entire root directory lol go right ahead"

I think it asks "Are you sure?" now first.
- Not if you indicate you are sure in advance
‘rm -rf /*’ for the win. I was on a production system when I learned I used that combo far too much. Thankfully, lots were deleted and my crimes were never detected.

VLC: Sure, just move the podcast you're listening to in another directory while listening.

Any program can do that assuming they keep the file open. Its an OS thing.

This is funny, because copying files to a USB flashdrive, is just inherently disfunctional in linux.

TRUE!!! Why "user friendly" distros does not mount removable drives with sync option by default is beyond me.
- Hang on there is a sync option? Does that make the progressbar work? If so why is it not enabled?
Zen kernel hasn't even support for fat32 last time i used a usb.
Actually had to switch kernel to use it
- To be fair in the other direction. Debian and Ubuntu and forks have it. They handle pretty much all filesystems fine, which is indeed impressive. Suprisingly Windows also has pretty good EXT drivers, so in a way the world is in harmony :D .

Can't you literally delete an open file and its fine?

Damn install a proper pdf viewer and use instead of adobe... Or do you have to edit pdfs?
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I just use my browser for pdfs lol
- Bloat :P