How much disk space should an installed Linux OS take up on a desktop?

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hellnice2014-04-29 12:30:41

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hellnice, 2014-04-29 12:30:41

Spherical desktop in vacuum: xfce, mplayer2, audacious, skype, steam, minimal installation.
Debian = ~4 GB
Gentoo = ~9 GB
It should be the other way around, since Gentoo allows you to manage dependencies (553 packages. I don't remember exactly in Debian, about 700).
1.5 GB for kernel sources in Gentoo is good, but I can't figure out what the other 3.5 GB was spent on
eclean-dist -d did.
Removed old kernel sources and modules. What else to pay attention to? I want to keep within 3-4GB.

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Nikolay Shamanovich, 2014-04-29
@Shm13

I also have more gent than debian ate the disk. And the minimum gent I had was 800mb (without graphon) and about 4 gigs with a rat.

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Vladimir, 2014-04-29
@azrail_dev

It was like arch less than 1 GB with graphics - dwm and other delights. Now the disk is 60 gigs, debian, 5 or 10 gigs takes - do not care. Install debian if the size suits you. And it takes much less time to install.

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Maxim, 2014-04-30
Syomochkin @mak_sim

Well, you can meditate on the xdiskusage output . Or to the banaldu -h /