On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 20:52 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I still have been unable to get an rational answer as to why Windows 7 > needs 20 GB(!) just to install. Never mind the applications. What > miraculous things does W7 do that it requires so much space? No > Windows user seems to know. Or care. Well, I don't care either, but > I do wonder. ;-)
The short answer is that it doesn't. I have a Win7 VM in a 20GB image and 50% is free. That's with some apps and user files. The other answer is "because it can". 20GB is nothing these days. You might as well ask why it takes a machine faster than the fastest supercomputers of a couple of decades ago and with more RAM than total *disk space* of the mainframes of yesteryear just to run a single-user graphical desktop which spends well over 90% of its time doing absolutely nothing. As the saying goes: "Intel giveth and Microsoft taketh away". poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
