The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking “Is this a pigeon”?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption “.config”. He asks “Is this a trash can?” At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh
executed on the directories .config/chromium/
and .config/Code
, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.
Why is separating the OS with files necessary? I don’t think large files slows down the OS anymore, because of SSD.
It’s not necessary, just really convenient when your OS breaks
Okay I prefer to use FDE for security, especially on laptops, so my data recovery is never going to be trivial, yet with a live environment, also not too difficult.
I use an SSD for the OS, on my Windows rig a 128gb drive. For files I use mainly hard drives and/or other SSDs for programs.