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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[-] los0220@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I keep about 55GB of system ISOs on my server, as an archive. 28GB out of that are w*nodes ISOs. Most of these are the ISOs I regularly use or are hard to find (like win11 old enough to make a local account, Orange Pi Zero 3 proprietary Linux image, etc)

I also seed a few of armbian and proxmox images, so that would be another 50GB.

And I have a 128GB Ventoy USB thumbdrive which is almost half full with ISOs, most of which are Linux

[-] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I think all the Windows LTSC editions still allow local accounts, that might have changed though

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I'll be staying with win10 ltsc on VMs for as long as I can manage, but most are on a flavour of Linux

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