[UserRights]

Isn't it just bizarre how unbelievably bloated these windows systems are? 5 GB compressed image size, and nothing much usable in there but a broken browser.

This site should be renamed to "The Historical Horror Graveyard of Bad Computing Ideas" - go and show your students how operating systems should not work and how the ill-minded hierarchical-company-business-religion destroys creativity and good ideas and harmed human progress for much too long.

It is good to know that Windows 10 is the last Windows - may that prophecy fullfill itself quickly.

[tenfingers]

Not to mention that if the browser was separate from the OS, as it should be, you could just install all of them side-by-side.

[nly]

Windows actually got smaller with 10. Windows 7 is like 25 GB fully-updated, Windows 10 only 12 GB.

[userbinator]

I suppose this could have something to do with it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Wi...

(There's no page for 10 yet but more features were removed.)

[amlgsmsn]

I think a good of that is because of backward compatibility and drivers.

[nness]

I find it amazing that Ubuntu 15.04 is still under 700mb, but I suppose you have to install a lot of packages on first run anyway. I do doubt that it's 5gb worth though...

[zaf]

Amen. Thank the heavens for having choices in far superior computing environments.

I'm always shocked at what windows users have had to go through in the last 15 years.

I was getting warmed up to windows 10 but the recent privacy issues have got me cold again.