I believe partitions have fallen out of favor because the necessity is no longer relevant. Partitioning became popular because Hard Drive space was ridiculously expensive. In these cases it made sense to sacrifice some speed, just you you could have your OS on it's own partition.

Now with solid states, and large capacity drives being everywhere at reasonable costs, there just is not a good reason to do it anymore, IMHO.

Now if you want a partition for your OS, you go buy a 120GB SSD for $40-50 bucks.

I feel partitions are a needless complication that solves a problem we no longer have.

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