Hello! So I have used linux mint for dual booting and its great! My main problem is that I have around 30 GB to spare for linux and I just run out of space pretty quickly. I wanted to ask, is there a distro that is more lightweight than linux mint that will work best with low amount of storage? I do prefer debian based distros but I am willing to try arch ones as well. Any recommendations will be very appreciated!
The distro is usually not really the problem, the desktop environment usually takes up a decent amount of disk space and snap/appimage/flatpak packages compared to native packages from your package manager. At least when strictly speaking about the system and programs, personal data (videos, Images, music,…) is still the biggest storage hog. I don’t think there is a good option, you could ofc shrink your windows partition and grow your Linux partition or just buy more storage, storage is really cheap these days. Additionally you can regularly clean up your system, delete the saved logs, delete unneeded files and uninstall unused packages/programs.
With just 30 gigs even Debian with xfce would probably take half that. I’d definitely agree with a second hard drive a 500 gig ssd is almost $50 these days
I would recommend Peropesis to you as a minimalsitc distro but the dual booting process will not be as easy as mint you also can try to use a distro with xfce desktop environment but I would say that 30 GB aren’t much anymore and you should think about upgrading
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Sparky is a very nice lightweight Debian-based distro.
“Arch-based” distros are problematic because of Arch’s rolling release model; if the distro maintainer has their own repo overlaid on Arch, they have to be very attentive to keeping them in sync, and most of them aren’t. So I wouldn’t recommend going that route.
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