We’ve all heard the “my 100TB NAS is full of Linux ISOs” joke but how many of you actually hoard ISOs? I just noticed I have ~100GB, so not that many though definitely way more than I need (I just like to try new distros on my VMs and I never delete them after).


I keep about 55GB of system ISOs on my server, as an archive. 28GB out of that are w*nodes ISOs. Most of these are the ISOs I regularly use or are hard to find (like win11 old enough to make a local account, Orange Pi Zero 3 proprietary Linux image, etc)
I also seed a few of armbian and proxmox images, so that would be another 50GB.
And I have a 128GB Ventoy USB thumbdrive which is almost half full with ISOs, most of which are Linux
I think all the Windows LTSC editions still allow local accounts, that might have changed though
I’ll be staying with win10 ltsc on VMs for as long as I can manage, but most are on a flavour of Linux