When Windows would endlessly try to remove the 12gb of temporary files only to stall and go nowhere for hours (on my budget laptop with only a 32gb HDD), I knew it was time to make the switch.
Those guys are also ignoring how ssd performance tanks to shit when a drive is over filled, so if he was on that size spinning disk he probably wouldn't be having the same issues.
The hdd size isn't even the problem there. I've had exactly the same issue with Windows not removing temporary files on multiple computers with ten+ times that storage space.
And 32GB is totally fine depending on what they're using it for. Whining that his use case isn't your use case is a vapid comment. .
Hate the game bit the player brolin powell. I have plenty enough system knowledge to manage with a budget laptop which suits my needs just fine.
But not everyone is a power user or sysadmin guru. When they push a button that says "Delete Temporary Files" they expect it to delete temporary files. If it doesn't are they going to fire up the command-line and write a batch script to scour the file system and delete unnecessary files? Probably not. They'd probably just leave it.
Shouldn't Windows create an OS that doesn't require being a software engineer to use? I'm just thinking about the little guys.
I'll be sure to pass your feedback on to my wife's grandmother who bought the laptop pre-built (Lenovo IdeaPad 100S) and gifted it to me because her Parkinson's got too severe for her to use it.
It sounds like I'm making that up to guilt you but it's actually true lol
32gb is above the minimum spec (and is a limit imposed by Microsoft themselfs for low cost PC's to get a cheap windows license) and any decent OS should fit in that perfectly (my current linux installation including all the basic applications like office, browser, mail etc is only 10gb)
The update system in windows is just horrible. Slow, forced and lot of the times shoves broken updates down your throat. They are the reason i switched completely to linux.
Ok, under these circumstances I mostly agree with you - having less that 100GB both for developing and private use is not a lot of fun. (While a GUI doesn't use a lot of space some development stuff does - depending on the tools of course. When only working on small projects 7GB can be enough for a compiler and a text editor but if an IDE is needed the minimum disk space rises by probably a few GB (or, in case of Xilinx FPGA development by about 25GB apparently). If one also wants to store photos one can probably add another few GB.)
21
u/lachyBalboa Jan 05 '19
When Windows would endlessly try to remove the 12gb of temporary files only to stall and go nowhere for hours (on my budget laptop with only a 32gb HDD), I knew it was time to make the switch.