And yet somehow, WordPerfect and Lotus 123 only took up 2mb of my 10mb hard disk (that was 1990)...
On Jan 1, 2018 8:12 PM, "Tim-L" <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > > I hoped that my figure of 896 MB was not out of the norm. > > I know many people might not get why people are concerned with the > installed size of the packages. They figure that you could just add a > larger drive to the laptop or another drive [2nd or 3rd] to the desktop. My > newest laptop came with a 1TB drive. The one I am typing from has 500GB. I > have seen a number of 2TB laptop drives for under $100. I have seen larger, > as well, but between the price and the heat issues, these larger ones may > not be best for low to mid level laptops. Also some people have had trouble > getting a desktop to boot up from a drive larger than 2TB. Desktops uses > one boot disk 2TB or smaller, and then add the 3, 4, or larger data > drives. Not an option for laptops. > > NOW, after that you can see there are limits for laptops for drive size. > > For me, I notice my laptops get down to under 20 GB free very quickly. I > have to have a USB 2TB drive [military grade] on hand to off load data > files so I can continue to do "my thing". Then I have to try to find room > in my data storage desktop for them. Of course, I have an old style PATA > drive for boot and three 2TB drives installed with maybe maybe 100 GB left > between the 4 drives. There is no more room in the case and I had to rig > up a lot of fans to keep it cool enough to work. Of course for whatever > reason it crashes every time I try to install Ubuntu 16.04. OK, that is a > pet peeve. > > Of course, if you grew up before the PC was invented, or before there was > an Internet, you will know how I feel about all these "new technologies" > came out. > > "on the other hand" - I remember having to install Adobe packages and MS > Office on a 50-80 gig hard drives at a computer work area. Of course, how > many of you remember having to install Windows via floppy discs - twelve if > I am correct - on desktops with no CD drive [before I was allowed to add a > temporary CD drive to use for the installs]. > > > > On 01/01/2018 12:08 PM, Remy Gauthier wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> As an FYI, on Fedora 25, the 64-bit version of 5.4.4-2 comes in at >> 879MB (result of the command "dnf erase libreoffice*" for a >> French/English installation with local help in both languages >> installed). Interestingly, LO 5.4.4.2 on my Windows 10 platform (64- >> bit, VmWare WS player 14) uses 550MB of disk space (size reported by >> right click -> Properties on the installation folder in Program Files). >> >> On the other hand, MS-Office on that same Windows platform has a disk >> footprint of slightly over 3 GB. >> >> Happy New Year! >> >> Rémy Gauthier. >> >> >> Le lundi 01 janvier 2018 à 09:41 -0500, Tim-L a écrit : >> >>> I was changing versions of LibreOffice and saw something that I am >>> wondering at. >>> >>> I ran "sudo apt-get remove libreoffice?" and at one point the process >>> asked to continue showing that 896 MB will be freed. >>> >>> This was the 64 bit DEB version of 5.3.6. >>> >>> Since I was not "purging" LO, I thought that figure was a little high, >>> but this was the first time I looked at the space being freed up before >>> installing the next version. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-un > subscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
