Windows takes up a 500GB partition on my laptop, because you can't make a windows partition smaller than half the drive.
I have only used it twice, once to download linux and once to find some info the needed when I sent it in for repairs.
Should I delete Windows?
@lizardsquid If you don't use Windows at all, why not? :).
@lizardsquid Ew. Maybe you should look into getting a tiny drive to put windows on if you really need to keep it.
@Felthry is that... possible?
@lizardsquid I'm guessing it is. I mean, I have windows installed on a small SSD with an HDD for data
@Felthry but is it possible to transfer an existing install onto a different, smaller drive?
@lizardsquid No clue, sorry. I don't work with software much.
@lizardsquid do you have a use case for it? Like that's a heck of a lot of space for an OS you aren't using.
@Cybertrash the only use I have for windows is windows-only video games, but I have access to a family computer for that
@lizardsquid That sucks :O They used to give you the key when you bought a computer with WIndows preinstalled. Or so I remember before I switched to Mac.
@lizardsquid I would keep it in case they need that information again
@lizardsquid I'd be nervous about deleting the preinstalled OS, but can't you use Linux to resize the Windows filesystem as small as you want? (I haven't actually had to deal with a Windows install for a few years, so I don't know, but I think that used to work...)
@jamey in theory, yeah, but that might destroy the data on it
@lizardsquid I mean, that's how I inadvertently switched to Linux full-time in 1998, when the ol' PartitionMagic ate my NTFS partition, but the Linux partition resize tools are good these days...
If you're considering deleting the OS anyway, I guess I'd try the resize first, because you can't lose anything you care about. 😅
@jamey oh, apparently it is safe!
oh um, I should say that I don't have the windows key! it came pre-installed