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.
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?
At least you can fork ff