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Topic: FAO: the writer of the thread about windows' install size

doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ started this discussion 13 years ago #25,298

i was using nLite on a windows xp iso and i think it is probably so large because it has to have a lot more third party drivers than osx because osx only has to run on a few very specific builds, whereas windows has to run on 38, almost 40 builds.

so yeah

DXMeowth joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 11 minutes later[^] [v] #386,372

This sounds like a plausible reason.
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