How Much Space Do I Need to Install Linux?
Contents a Typical Linux Installation Will Need Somewhere Between 4Gb and 8Gb of Disk Space, and You Need at Least a Bit of Space for User Files, So I...
A typical Linux installation will need somewhere between 4GB and 8GB of disk space, and you need at least a bit of space for user files, so I generally make my root partitions at least 12GB-16GB.
Is 20 GB enough for Linux?
For just messing around and having a basic system, 20 is more than enough. If you download you will need more. You can install a kernel module to use ntfs so that space can become available to linux as well.
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Is 25 GB enough for Linux?
25GB is recommended, but 10GB is the minimum. Unless you can meet that 10GB minimum (and no, 9GB is not 10GB), you should not be using Ubuntu on that small a space, and should probably be cleaning off other stuff from your computer to make more space for your system.
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