I’ve worked for Fraser Group (in a very different capacity) and you absolutely have dodged a bullet; they’re an absolute shit show and are responsible for a large amount of the enshittification of the UK’s high street.
The owners are shitbags and the rest of the hierarchy takes notes and shit downstream.
The ideal scenario is that we get good old Gay Space Communism™ but until then it’s probably going to be mutual aid and community organisation that keep the rest of us semi-functioning.
I feel this way about most love recordings of podcasts (or anything for that matter, with the exception of standup comedy) - if I wanted live episodes I’d go see them live.
My phone service provider used to do daily roulette type giveaways.
I won a free return flight to basically anywhere in Europe.
I actually never did anything with it, because at the time I couldn’t afford to pay for someone else to go with me (I would have gone with my partner).
I regret not just flying on my own, but them’s the rubs - I was, and am, a bit of an idiot.
I also once won a game key by making a funny YouTube comment on a Unit Lost video once too - but I never used that either; it wasn’t a game I was interested in, I just liked to watch the vids for a bit of a laugh.
I don’t win much, but when I do I squander my wins.
The right answer is “yes”. Some cash in the moment is a nice thing to do, and will alleviate an immediate want or need potentially.
Donation to an organisation that will help the problem long term is a worthwhile thing to fund.
Why not give a man a fish to eat while you’re teaching them to fish for themselves, if you’re in a position to do so?
You could have asked him what he wanted first, if anything at all?
It smacks of elitism, that’s all.
The OS is simply a means to an end. If Linux offers a way to do what they want in a way that is less hassle, and it meets their needs, then that’s a good thing.
customizable and configurable
Whatever you think of OPs proposed use case is definitely falls under the above.
It’s this kind of 1337 h@xor approach to the OS that makes people feel like it’s unapproachable when that’s so far from the reality these days.
My great uncle left a load of masonic stuff but my dad returned it to his lodge before I could have a rummage through it.
My parents are religious and took a dim view of it.
Some of that stuff was pretty cool - it was a part of my great uncles life I would have loved to asked him about and I didn’t find out about it until he passed. Sad stuff.
Not really - there’s plenty of use cases where running memory intensive stuff like that isn’t an issue and running a small footprint distro makes more sense than, say, a maximalist, fully featured desktop distro.
I’m not trying to run a media centre or play games on my 11 year old MacBook!
Point taken!
I don’t think the lite distros are to blame for performance drops in that case, are they? Unless it’s down to a lack of system optimisation.
Fair enough!
I’ve done some blindingly stupid things with my installs in the past, and I’m not angling to try any in the near future - I guess I’ll just embrace the reinstallation game!
That’s a blast from the past! I used to run #! On my 701…
So if there’s additional repositories does that mean that there is likely to be core functionality which would be broken if it stops being maintained?
Fair enough - I didn’t realise it was for visa requirements until I read the rest of the comments; my bile got the better of me…