20GB for a fucking Windows Update. TWENTY FUCKING GIGS.
In other news, I've been using a Linux VM for most of my internet stuff at home. I'm 90% of the way there, if only my last two games worked on Linux I'd be done.
Looks like Microsoft headquarters is still managed by hyper-alpha egomaniacal bros who push through horrible decisions against the will of pretty much everyone in the room who still has common sense. Looks like some things never change in Redmond.
Don't you still take a performance hit when wine-bottling, though? Or do you offset it through premium hardware?
I do usually have a much better video card than expected, because I use my GPU for other things, but there usually isn't any noticeable overhead unless Wine implemented a particular API badly and you can't load the native library for some reason, and that usually gets fixed pretty quickly.
CUDA-based schtuff?because I do use my GPU for other things
Gaming is the only reason I keep Windows as well. Everything is done on Linux.