[mdlug] Linux Desktops For Sale

[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Adkins wrote:
> Neophyte and many regular Windows Users already wonder why a 200GB drive is
> only showing up as roughly 187GB and have been known to go on and on about
> how horribly misleading, dishonest and yadd-yadda that whole thing is. 
> 
> Imagine someone like that looking at a computer with a 200GB Hard Drive and
> then looking at the /home "drive" and seeing that it is "only" a mere 150GB.
> 
> It's already going to be difficult enough as it is to explain the concept of
> the /swap partition as the reason why their computer should have 187GB
> displayed for a 200GB hard drive, yet they only see it displaying between
> 180 and 185GB. (Assuming they run with just the /swap and the / partitions.)
> 

Because neophytes are always running the df command, but
at the same time, they can't read the output?

Besides, the typical swap partition is no more than 2x the
installed memory.  Assuming 4GB of mem on the motherboard,
that's 8 GB max.

> First impressions are everything and if the first impression feels even
> remotely dishonest, that's a reason to go with what "everyone else" uses.
> Which brings everything back to ease and simplicity.

Windows has the same problems with regard to disk space, so I
fail to see what the issue is -- your argument basically is
that Linux should turn find 320 GiB of space on a 320 GB disk.

The typical adult user KNOWS that they don't understand computers,
and has given up trying to understand much about it a long
long time ago... just like your typical car driver -- they
don't understand HOW an automatic transmission works, nor
do they care, as long as they can find P R N O D 3 2 L.