Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

[Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com>]

On 12/02/14 09:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 00:34 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Ma, 11 feb 14, 23:20:11, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> IOW there is no reason why somebody shouldn't install
>>> nearly all available packages.

Depending on your definition of "reason" ;p

>>
>> Of course there is. Besides the waste of space there are many packages 
>> that run daemons which one might not need.
> 
> That's not completely true. Users perhaps want to compare a lot of
> software, <snipped>

Or just test the fair use clause in their broadband contract with their
ISP. Unless the deal is not unlimited downloads, in which case they may
also be testing their spending limits in excess download fees.

Just because you can install everything doesn't mean you shouldn't
upgrade it.... and that can be expensive.

Consider also that the average "user" is never going to "compare" the
thousands of available packages. Just develop the attention span of a
fruit fly and end up "trying" half of nine different things, (none of
them properly) like the end result of multi-booting various OS magnified.


Kind regards