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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
@ eschwartz
Your tl;dr exactly. Especially as they (MS) first said that the sniffing is essential for maintaining functionality
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What functionality? OneDrive? I don't even want it.
My new (in transit now) workstation class notebook, which is going to replace both my aging desktop and notebook, has a 256 GB boot SSD and a 2TB hard drive. This means that I want all my data on that device, and not in the cloud. I want access to everything, from a text file to a 20GB disk image, even when I have slow or no internet.
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An operating system should be just that.
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Yes. I don't know anyone not running Linux, who actually uses the operating system actively to get work done, aside from the file manager. There is too much stuff in there; I still can't fathom why an operating system needs to be 10GB in size, since Windows Vista. Vista and 7 are 10 times as big as Windows 2000/XP, which was already 5 times as big as NT 4 SP6a.
To be honest, not much has changed in my daily usage; apart from ripping CD's to FLAC and managing e-books I still do the same things as I was doing in 1998. Sometimes I long for the days in which an operating system was like 6-7 MB after installation (MS-DOS 6.22), or around 25 MB, if you had Windows 3.1 installed.