> How enormous are we talking?
> An impressive 8.63GB in size, a sizable chunk of all but the largest of drives.
That feels pretty hyperbolic.
That feels pretty hyperbolic.
Sure, 1 update is 9GB, but how many applications don't clean up after themselves regularly? Game launchers, browsers, code editors.
I've noticed folders with gigabytes worth of logs, 3(!) previous installers being kept for some reason, etc. etc.
This is rampant.
My primary OS drive is not your hoarder parents' attic.
Not really, thankfully you have ability to slim them down to a small size.
> You must be gobsmacked every time you take a picture with your phone.
At least that is data I want?
And I wish it was only the data I want in my photos. They keep adding more things to each photo, and you end up with HDR and a little video file if you're not careful.
However, this kernel does much more than, say, C64 ever did. BPF and ACPI parser alone is bigger than BASIC, there's a network stack, multitasking etc. Multiple people have claimed you cannot do it with new kernels. They are wrong. (E.g. Floppinux by Jankowski.)
Remember that a lot of the software back then took more than one disk. Amiga Workbench for example used 3 for 1.0 I believe... And that built off Kickstart, which is the true kernel and was extra 256 KB.
In contrast, my Linux desktop only uses 13GB of the 24GB allocated to the OS partition (excluding /opt and /home). Now that 8.6GB is 35% of the OS partition.