Ok so i just bought a 256 GB SSD macbook pro and long story short i actually have 200 GB of free space when you take everything that takes up the space.

The fucking Catalina OS upgrade takes 8 GB.

Is this enough memory for programming/work related stuff???

plenty of room

@C0D4 is that sarcasm

@SukMikeHok nope, 128GB hdd, has windows, several vms for Linux servers, Android studio and some other programs.

Surely Xcode doesn't take that much room.

With xcode, android studio, docker with more then 10 containers, intellij, couple of projects, flutter etc. No vm.

If you do it smart it works but I am not happy.

more than enough for me too.

Failų sistema Tipas Size Naud Laisva Nd % Prijungta prie
/dev/mapper/systemvg-homelv ext4 283G 225G 44G 84% /home

This contains: 2 VM images (109G total), 4-5 clients' projects (~20GB), plenty of downloaded junk (>20GB), a few massive heapdumps (~40GB), plenty of threaddumps (4-5GB), several OS images (12GB), ~5GB of DB, webapp, etc backups, and so on.

I could do some housekeeping and free up at least 100GB, but.. why bother, I still have >40GB free :)

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256 GB is way too less with modern tool chain. NEVER buy a low to medium spec Mac.

Reading comments above should clearly tell you that we don't know what your needs are. You've had a computer before, right? Just check how much space you used.

256GB is nothing.

Having a 256GB mac pro.... NEVER AGAIN!.

Why?

To start with... Even with fresh installation - you have 200GB free. That's fine and all.... Until these things happen:

- Load spotify with few downloaded libraries - 20GB gone.
- Install GIT/php and whatever else, baam, you need full xcode (well, it's libraries but for me it just keeps installing full xcode) - another 30-40GB gone...
- Then work files... I work on quite a lot of projects - so that takes space. Not too much but like 5GB...
- And then databases.... Almost 60GB of them
- On top of that, I dare you to install some helping tools or even download a movie....

So yeah https://prnt.sc/pwx3kx - this is most of my storage that is free. Sometimes I make it to 40GB with clearing all caches and stuff.... But it's pain in the ass to manage :)

@potata what's the purpose of downloading Spotify on your laptop?

I remember when a gig was “all you could ever need”. We’re all so spoiled now

@Stuxnet To have a music library available? Since I'm working fully offline from time to time or on a poorly connection - this keeps me with music :)

@dontbeevil That's the fun part... I don't need it. Like at all.... But in order to use GIT on MAC I need fucking libraries from xcode otherwise it just tells me to fuck off. If I install those libraries - eventually I find out that I actually have full xcode installed.... I still have no idea why that keeps happening and even local ideal service couldn't understand...

@potata it doesn’t need Xcode, just the cli tools which can be installed separately

@potata why not use your phone for that?

My gf had the problem that continuous apple software updates would decimate the already limited storage space.

And I have couple of games installed

@vane I cleaned up 100gb of unused docker images from mine today...

@sboesch Never buy a mac ever.

you can't do a bunch of shit on Catalina

how would programming on Mac even work after everything has to be signed

@Plasticnova well, it doesn't by the specs but for whatever reason I still find full xcode and not just cli tools :)

@Stuxnet probably because of convenience :)

@StefanH what do u mean by the second sentence