I've used it for... IDK, 2017-2022? I'm well aware of what it offers.
monk
joined 1 year ago
I admire their uncompromising stance on feature creep and polish of the core functionality.
I'm a simple man, all I need 95% of the time is keyboard shortcuts to switch between maximized browser and a maximized terminal emulator.
Compare and contrast KDE, where you have three infinitely configurable screen zoom plugins, and I've never seen 3/3 working.
Syncthing is the one, I could probably replace any one but this one.
You wouldn't call a supermarket a Cocacola distribution
Only because it's kinda unconventional to buy oneself some Coca-Cola by purchasing an entire supermarket.
I would still call a combo meal "a Coca-Cola distribution", and whoever sells it to me a "Coca-Cola distributor".
I can set up a computer with e.g. OpenBSD (with my own modifications to make it mine) that downloads an Ubuntu ISO from my server, then I load up that ISO into a virtual machine and now I magically turned OpenBSD into an Ubuntu distribution??
my server
You're now a distributor of Ubuntu (regardless of the OpenBSD-based thingie), and your version of OpenBSD is an Ubuntu distribution. If, however, your hypothetical OpenBSD-based distro pulled all the Ubuntu bits from ubuntu.com, it would've been just an distribution of an Ubuntu installer.
Windows distributes Linux, through its repositories, ergo Windows a Linux distribution.
What does it do with it then – acts as a hypervisor or sings its source aloud backwards – is an orthogonal question.
If it distributes Linux, it's a distro. Thus ChromeOS, Android, Windows are all Linux distros.
If you have a different definition, best you can do with it is go brighten up some lawyer's day, I guess.
Fruit trees. There's a ton of them.
Compatibility issues? Unspecified root problems? Nope, I ain't feeling'em.
Tech knowledge is required to use smaller services? Just a fraction of what was required before, just about enough to operate in digital world in general.
Cars are becoming SaaS? Whatever brings them closer to extinction works for me.