Yes! I’ve just set up alexandrite on my lan and it’s wonderful :D

I get the aspect that usage of open source projects don’t necessarily benefit their dev (for better or worse), but at the end of the day promotion of a software is still promotion of its dev (even if to a much smaller degree) and consequently their reach. I can understand why people like the op would have issues with it being actively recommended.

He usually got pcs from those companies that do custom builds from what I remember