Re: Bloat

From	Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Bloat
Date	2026-09-17 09:35 +1000
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On 14/09/2026 9:52 pm, Keithr0 wrote:
> People talk about Microsoft bloat, but Apple beats them hands down. I 
> have a 5th generation iPad Air, 64GB storage. It was a good machine 
> until it got an automatic upgrade from iPadOS 18 to 26. Now the OS takes 
> up 26.38GB, and OS data takes another 11.2 GB, that's 58.7% of total 
> storage just for the OS, and there doesn't seem to be a way to downgrade 
> back to 18. Ridiculous.

Another point, there have been several patches to correct minor 
problems. Each of these need 11GB of temporary space to run. So, to keep 
the system up to date, you need to keep another 11GB free.

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