My work laptop has only a 256GB disk for the OS. Now it's 4% of the entire disk.
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.
Goody for you - but I am stuck with a 512GB drive on a 2024 issued laptop (small capacity due to dAtA s3curiTy or some silliness, the defense industry is full of nonsense like that). I currently have 90.4 GB available, so this update would be consuming 10% of my available storage.
The BestBuy near me still sells laptops with 128GB SSDs. I can’t imagine the people who can’t machines like that are doing much, but 9GB is a big chunk of that.
Well, that sounds like a work laptop, so you shouldn't really be doing much of anything personal on it except for work. If you have drive space problems, then talk to your work.
And your OS partition is how much of that? Mine is like 100GB and this would easily consume the majority of the free space it has left. And no, the rest of the space on the disk isn't just unallocated space sitting there for the OS to bloat into.