On Fri 12 Apr 2019 at 21:42:51 (+0200), deloptes wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > We have a laptop that was used with windows for just under four > > years. Main applications are Office for excel/word/powerpoint, > > Outlook for email, Coreldraw for publication figures. Disk usage > > is approximately 90GB, of which the user's own files are 45GB, > > in a partition of 175GB. The partition was originally 423GB, > > but I carved the space for my linux system out of it. > > on the company notebook I am still on windows 7. the disk is 250GB with more > applications than office and many documents, diagrams etc it is now at > ~170GB > > so you see 120 is not that much for windows. > > At home I have a virtual machine with windows7 where I run visio mostly but > have the data on the share. I had to increase disk to 70GB recently after > seriously cleaning up. > > I need to use that crap for money making ... oh and part of this 170GB is > occupied by cygwin cause you need a more or less decent shell if you have > to work with servers.
Your figures are virtually meaningless without any sort of breakdown even into what's system and what's your documents. And mention of cygwin merely clouds the issue: you say you just need a decent shell, and a minimal installation will give you that. OTOH, a full implementation is a completely different kettle of fish, and I hazard that most linux users won't be interested in it at all. Cheers, David.