You get used to it. I’ve gotten to that point that a dart to the back of the head, or hitting my monitor doesn’t even make me flinch, and I don’t lose my train of though. I’ll wrap up what I was working on, then fire back.
If you don’t want to be involved then people won’t throw darts at you. It’s only people that want to be involved (sans the odd failed throw). Everyone in our office at least enjoys them.
There’s only one person who doesn’t like them, but she has her own office and is a massive hypocrite so she can fuck off.
Debian uses like 200MBs of ram for a basic fresh install. That’s negligible.
Unless you’re deploying 500 virtual machines on a single server, that all run a single simple basic task the base ram usage of the OS shouldn’t even be a factor.
Unfortunately the boss man decided to stick with VMware instead of migrating to proxmox. Sadly there’s no good migration solutions for proxmox unless you’re ok with a lot of down time.
Maybe if they can make a live convert tool I can convince him to make the switch. But until we can get past the hurdle of converting everything painfully we’re stuck.