Total Download Size: 3292.10 MiB
Total Installed Size: 13327.24 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 995.34 MiB
Upgrading a (several months old) Arch Linux box, and you can definitely see that binaries tend to get bigger over time!
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Google is my default the vast majority of the time, and this seems to confirm it.
I really like base-2 prefixes in writing, e.g. 1 KiB, 2 MiB, 3 GiB and so on. It's way more explicit.
However, SI units are k M G and so on. Switching between lowercase k and uppercase Ki keeps tripping me up.
Do users of immutable systems (i.e Nix or Guix) upgrade more or less often than other platforms?
There's less pressure to upgrade (unlike a rolling release distro) but in principle upgrading is easier.