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We've all heard the "my 100TB NAS is full of Linux ISOs" joke but how many of you actually hoard ISOs? I just noticed I have ~100GB, so not that many though definitely way more than I need (I just like to try new distros on my VMs and I never delete them after).

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[–] j3tt@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I delete older ones as soon I downloaded a new one. I guess, my isos take well below ~15 GB of space. It is only Debian, Fedora and Gentoo afterall.

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

tbh I should just delete the old ISOs I have as well, they're practically useless since the package repos don't even support them anymore

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

I keep them around just in case I run into something that requires an old kernel.