> that puts lighter/older hardware first.

Perhaps the same approach should be carried through to their website. The 3mb background gif is janky in Safari, and in Chrome makes my MacBook fans spin up.

3,000+ default packages? I'm a *nix minimalist, so this makes me uneasy. It really is insane.

I'm digging in my closet for a 32 bit machine so I can put it on bare metal immediately.

That animated background is straight from a 90s GeoCities page.