zlacker

> An OS isn't large. Your spotify/slack/browser instance is of comparable size.

A fairly recent Windows 11 Pro image is ~26GB unpacked and 141k dirents. After finishing OOBE it's already running like >100 processes, >1000 threads, and >100k handles. My Chrome install is ~600MB and 115 dirents. (Not including UserData.) It runs ~1 process per tab. Comparable in scope and complexity? That's debatable, but I tend to agree that modern browsers are pretty similar in scope to what an OS should be. (The other day my "web browser" flashed the firmware on the microcontroller for my keyboard.)

They're not even close to "being comparable in size," although I guess that says more about Windows.

>>drbawb+(OP)
My reading was that the "comparable in size" was more about memory footprint and less about usage of storage