Comments on: Learning Windows – is this really a life-skill? http://techlun.ch/2008/06/13/learning-windows-%e2%80%93-is-this-really-a-life-skill/ Paul Anderson's technology blog Sat, 19 May 2012 20:55:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: whyamistilltyping http://techlun.ch/2008/06/13/learning-windows-%e2%80%93-is-this-really-a-life-skill/#comment-2661 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:52:47 +0000 http://tech1unch.wordpress.com/?p=124#comment-2661 The part about Windows is completely untrue. Whilst Vista may take up about 4Gb or HDD space for a full install, it can comfortably fit into about half that when pruned down. XP is the same, a full install taking up about 2.5Gb. Of course, you do need to give Windows a bit of swap room as well as a bit of ‘backyard’ HDD area, but to say you need to write off 15Gb to Windows is complete nonsense. Even 10Gb would be pushing it.

If you don’t believe me, install Windows yourself with all the feature you need, add an Antivirus/Firewall program as well as the drivers. Remove the temporary files and take a look. Its only when you buy a computer from a manufacturer that you lose so much hard disk space because they fill it with wanton crapware which they are paid to install.

I should say on the flip side, I am a huge Linux and F/OSS fan and I don’t think too much of the Windows idea for the XO. However, for the EEE PC, it has turned out to be quite a popular option. At the end of the day, I believe once you own the hardware, you can put anything you want on it to suit you, manufacturers be damned ;)

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