• kshade@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You could fit an entire modern OS in that space, together with all the drivers, a web browser, an office suite, graphics editor, an IDE and a compatibility layer for running Windows applications.

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      2 months ago

      Yup, my Linux install is a bit over 10GB, which honestly surprises me and means I probably should clean stuff up, because usually my Linux base install is around 8GB. After a quick look, I have several old versions of compilers and runtimes that can be cleaned up w/o breaking anything.

      I can’t imagine thinking that an 8GB cache is fine, and that’s nothing compared to the size of the rest of the OS…