In private (I think) you then mentioned an 80KiB wastage thanks to device mapper, and a claimed 0.5s increase on boot time.
Ask yourself if that is going to cause performance problems on a typical desktop system, where even small machines, have 512 MiB RAM.
I thought the minimum requirement for installing SUSE was 256MB and
pretty much has been for a long, long while. The requirement for
running Office apps on a full KDE desktop is 512MB, but there are ways
around that (xfce, gnumeric, abiword) which work just as well.
A typical Netbook system may have 512MB of RAM, but it also has
limited provision for swap (or "demand paging area" if you want to
call it that) too, if it only has 4GB of total storage. The default
install would take ~1.5GB of that as swap. ~1.5GB to install. What's
left? One gigabyte for the user. This is not friendly, and also on the
current crop of cost effective ML-NAND SSDs, a terrible idea too.
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Matt Sealey