I got offered low level management or redundancy.

Took the “promotion”, with a slight pay hike, and now I’m spending the extra money on counselling for stress and anxiety.

All while watching the industry I work in spiral downwards after an artificial COVID years high.

Bike shops are awash with innuendo. Part of the fun of working in them.

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!

“Accidentally threw it away” really sounds more like “threw it away, didn’t have a backup, he now regrets throwing it away”.

Dread to think what his solicitor is making by allowing this delusion to continue (unless he’s representing himself in which case…fair enough I suppose). I’ve been reading about this man for years it seems like.

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?