On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > […]Fedora reportedly has millions of users, but I have no way of telling how > many of those are actually affected by the longer download time […]
To add another aspect, that cannot be counted properly (and thus being a personal preference): Due to my linux-usage I do need around 3 or 4 different distros available at the same time. To avoid re-downloading it every time (which usually is at least 20 to 40 minutes waiting time, which I could use to do something more productive), I store the images locally. As my laptop is already severely restricted on disk space, I don't use the full images anyway, but the netinstall images. There is one exception, where I do use the full image, which is as a base for a kickstart managed installation. For all other cases I ignore the full images (this applies to Debian as well as Fedora) - as I do know what I want to install I can use the netinstall variants. This has multiple advantages for me: * image download is faster (less stuff I don't need) * total installation time is faster (only downloaded what is needed) * I can store multiple distros (currently my free disk space is 2.4G) * I don't have to remove that much stuff after installation But granted this is only a usecase for people already knowing what they want, not a (maybe more) regular "I'm a new user and want to try this". All the best, Astra
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