Datahoarders, how many Linux ISOs do you actually have? (sh.itjust.works)

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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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[-] StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

Currently, just 6, Proxmox, Nixos, and 2 each, Ubuntu Server and Kubuntu.

When we moved last year we went on a massive cleaning purge throwing away anything we didn't need or want and I included digital files in that. I went from 68TB used down to about 20TB.

From memory, I had just about every Ubuntu server release since 2008 in both x86-64,and ARM roughly a dozen releases of Kubuntu, a couple copies of Knoppix, Gentoo, Silverblue, RHEL, Fedora, plus about 20 other random isos from when I was distro hopping, before I settled on Ubuntu and NixOS.

I think the isos added up to 15 or 20TB of what I deleted, the rest was just random junk I thought I might need, but based on access dates, never did.

The oldest iso I deleted (based on timestamps) was a copy of Windows 98, circa 2004

[-] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

That's a crazy amount of clean-up, impressive. I find it's hard to delete even just 10% of my collection, and you did like 70%

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