How much space does Ubuntu need for comfortable coding?

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I decided to install Ubuntu as a second OS on my laptop purely for work, but I don’t want to take a lot of space for it from the hard, so the question arises.
For coding, web surfing, IDE and Figma, how much space should be given to Ubuntu and how much to swap? Well, if it’s not difficult for anyone, then I’ll ask the following:
What program under Win10 is better to do and how (I remember how I did it with GParted, but I completely forgot everything, especially under Win10)?

Answer 1

Everyone has different appetites for disk space, and different habits of allocating it, so don't be surprised if there are wildly different tips. :) You need to start somewhere, with some volume, in order to work for at least a few months and understand whether it is a lot or a little for you. Less than 10 GB - you can squeeze in, but it will definitely be cramped. More than 100 GB - you won't have time to "eat" so much before the moment when you want to reinstall the system for some reason (and you want to, the ideal does not work out the first time). So choose a number between 10 and 100, how many do not mind. If there is enough RAM, then the swap can not be taken out separately, it will be automatically created in the file at the root, without intensive swapping this is quite a normal option.
Under Windows today, you can free up disk space using standard tools (disk management - right click on the partition - the "shrink" command).
also look at the discussions flaring up: How to feng shui partition a disk in Linux? :) this is to the fact that "the taste and color of all felt-tip pens are different."