Right, hence the "very comfortably". That wasn't min specs, that was a very happy Win95 system. > Also a fresh install took up a whooping 50mb I do wonder WTF

Right, hence the "very comfortably". That wasn't min specs, that was a very happy Win95 system. > Also a fresh install took up a whooping 50mb I do wonder WTF modern Windows is doing with tens of GB of disk space, not even counting swap & such. Seems like it jumped up dramatically after WinXP—even the otherwise-kinda-decent Win7 used crazy amounts of disk. "They started including a bunch of drivers" bullshit, Linux has always included loads of drivers with most default installations and it's so much smaller that just calling it "smaller" doesn't do the difference justice, plus there are surely a lot of those that could easily be made a download or optional default-off package (extremely niche or very old hardware).