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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Best linux distro for dual booting (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! So I have used linux mint for dual booting and its great! My main problem is that I have around 30 GB to spare for linux and I just run out of space pretty quickly. I wanted to ask, is there a distro that is more lightweight than linux mint that will work best with low amount of storage? I do prefer debian based distros but I am willing to try arch ones as well. Any recommendations will be very appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The distro is usually not really the problem, the desktop environment usually takes up a decent amount of disk space and snap/appimage/flatpak packages compared to native packages from your package manager. At least when strictly speaking about the system and programs, personal data (videos, Images, music,...) is still the biggest storage hog. I don't think there is a good option, you could ofc shrink your windows partition and grow your Linux partition or just buy more storage, storage is really cheap these days. Additionally you can regularly clean up your system, delete the saved logs, delete unneeded files and uninstall unused packages/programs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

With just 30 gigs even Debian with xfce would probably take half that. I’d definitely agree with a second hard drive a 500 gig ssd is almost $50 these days