Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
I get that there’s a relatively distilled Linux user base here in the Fediverse, but what percentage of that group really needs ISOs that quickly, and presumably, often?
Is this to suggest that we’d try more distros if we didn’t have to weigh the time needed to download them?
The cloud idea is better. It would be nice to be able to essentially quicksave to off-site before logging off for an extended period, or even periodically.
On the other hand, how many gigabytes does the average person need to back up on a regular basis? Even power users don’t generate that much data, and I’d expect that they’d have some kind of rolling backup that does files at a time.
We’re talking about “Linux ISOs” here. They often use the same distributed delivery networks as Linux ISOs to reduce the need for expensive file servers and prevent single points of failure.