Counterhint: Steam circumvents this by providing only a tiny 'seed' package, which will then download the whole steam application and all games to the user's home folder.
I also heard chrome does the same (on windows as well).
However, the seed coul probably easily be re-written as or published as free software (e.g. a 100-line bash script) to circumvent all packaging license issues.
On the other hand, recent tests of current-generation (desktop) processors showed Intel processors to be twice as fast and four times as energy-efficient on a per-core basis.
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Counterhint: Steam circumvents this by providing only a tiny 'seed' package, which will then download the whole steam application and all games to the user's home folder. I also heard chrome does the same (on windows as well). However, the seed coul probably easily be re-written as or published as free software (e.g. a 100-line bash script) to circumvent all packaging license issues.
On the other hand, recent tests of current-generation (desktop) processors showed Intel processors to be twice as fast and four times as energy-efficient on a per-core basis.
You might want to take a look at the mysterious concept of Valve Time: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
Around 2007, I installed Ubuntu, and stayed faithful to it until it began tormenting me with Unity in late 2011. Now, I'm using Arch GNU/Linux.