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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

so it maintains several editions at once? that sounds like a space hog even though it's useful.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Two editions, the current one and previous one, I believe

And the space hog is like a few gigabytes. I think that's well worth it for a beginner when it means that in the worst case you can always roll back when we have like terabytes of space

fuck i gotta put all my good hard drives into my box. i cheaped out on the m3 memory and it's biting me in the ass