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I'm curious why the #2 concern is that the installation takes 20 GB. I bet most users don't have enough files and programs to fill up even a small 256 GB hard drive.

For some power users this might matter, but as far as I can tell most baseline laptops you can get with Windows offer more than enough storage.

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My family laptop has Office Suite, 4 games (GTA IV, GTA San Andreas, CoD 4 and World of Tanks IIRC), a couple of accounting software for my family business and data (mostly pictures).

Currently, they have used about 350 gigabytes (out of 500). I wouldn't call them power users at all, but they have used a lot of space. Keeping that in mind, I have concluded that for most of the regular Windows users, 200 GB would be easily filled.

20 GB might not be a lot, but it is 2x higher than my _whole_ Linux installation with all of the programs I have installed. And I would call myself a power user.

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