[thijsvandien]

You know, 10 GB should be plenty for what that machine is supposed to be doing. On Ubuntu, initially it was, but after several upgrades (despite cleaning package caches), not any longer. FreeBSD takes less than a fifth, and I know that isn't going to change much. Am I desperate to save a few gigs? No, it merely illustrates how much of everything there was that I didn't want there to be. Now the output of top fits in my small console window. It's about feeling in control.

Surely experience must be factored in, but I consider it a fact that Linux is less coherent and more prone to changes. Evolving quicker can be a benefit, yet for my server applications it simply never is.