Baldurs gate 3 has gone from from 140gb to 200mb by changing it to a text based adventure.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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Oh, good, they reinvented DOS.
I wonder if Microsoft put a team of a couple hundred people on it for a few years how small they could get the current OS. Given, obviously, it's a fool's errand, but how much of the size of the current OS is just because disc and ram are cheaper now?
This iso and blackbox window manager and done, debloated windows
Still a far cry from the days when the whole thing fit on a handful of floppies.
That’s always one thing I hated about Windows Server Core. It still uses the graphical subsystem but only offered you a command prompt…. Which was in a window. I would have loved to see them go true text mode only, bit it seemed parts of the graphics subsystem was embedded in the kernel so they just went with it.
So,.. DOS.
That’s a Win..
… small klap.
With Microsoft killing Windows 10 and windows itself , a new era of pirate forks will come.
deletes Windows iso
I’ve shrunk Windows to 0MB! It’s more lightweight than Linux (maybe)!
Still same functionality as before
not quite, now you have to manually delete your bootloader instead of windows doing it for you
What's the point of this? The article managed to miss that somehow
In the context of the people who did it, I think it's just a "bit of fun"; a hobbyist hacking project to see how far you can take something.
But that said, it is absolutely insane how much disk space Windows needs. Windows Server 2022, with its most minimal "core" installation option, still has a minimum requirement of a baffling 32GB of hard disk space. By comparison, Ubuntu Server's published minimum requirement is for only 2.5GB (with more specialist minimalist distros like Alpine coming in at well under 1GB).
The ubuntu:24.04 Docker image is only 77.30 MiB.
alpine:3.19.0 is 7.38 MiB.
Of course those sizes are without a kernel. Typical everything-included distro kernels are generally a few hundred MiB as they include drivers for everything that might be needed, but a custom build for known hardware can reduce that to just a few MiB.
Windows Server is basically useless in the modern era of containers and cloud computing. If they’re ever going to compete in that space long term, they need a minimal viable version of Windows that can scale however customers want.
They also have embedded Windows, which is the type of thing that runs on ATMs or IoT devices. Not sure why anyone would use it instead of Linux but I guess the license fees are worth having someone to call (or blame) for some companies.
Windows server is still wildly used for ADDS.
I don't think windows server is that threatened by containers.
ADDS is basically the only thing I might use Windows Server for.
I guess for containerization?