Two years or so tried fedora Silverblue and one the main issue i run into was storage. I had 180 GB SSD at the time and it filled to 90-something in a week. Now i have a 240 GB SSD and thing of try an immutable distro but worried about the storage space.

Anyone got insight into how big an SSD do i need?

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    5 hours ago

    I don’t know how silverblue works, but i’m assuming they offer some way to clean up. You wouldn’t want to clean up everything at all times everytime you update, since that kinda defeats the point of an immutable system, but 90gb sounds excessive and definitely warrants some sort of cleanup. On NixOS there is a garbage collect feature where you can remove old generations. If you never run that eventually the drive runs out of space as well.

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        2 hours ago

        If 90% of the 180 gig drive was filled up, that’s even more lol, definitely should be a way to clean that up but i’ve never used silverblue.

        Edit: just realized you said that happened within a week. That’s really weird and i don’t think that’s supposed to happen. Over an extended amount of time without cleanup, sure, but not a week.