Even though different Linux distros are often fairly close in terms of real-life performance and all of them have a clear advantage over Windows in many use cases, we can’t reject the fact that Arch Linux has undoubtedly won the competition. And now I’m so glad to have another reason to proudly say “I use Arch btw”

::: It was a joke of course :::

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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    9 months ago

    What are these sizes from? All my Linux installs start with <20G root disks and end up with some spare.

    And Windows at 72G? Whilst it’s more than Linux it’s not that much.

    • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I think the videomaker may be failing to account for swap space. The latest Fedora releases use zram (swap that lives in memory instead of hard disk) by default, while the rest do not. Windows in particular does not take 72G and tends to be aggressive in swap allocation. The fact that he presents this data as “free space available” adds confusions while seemingly burying the simplest answer.