There’s no functional difference, we just use both terms. It’s a bit arbitrary, but generally once a mall is a mall we stick with that and vice versa. E.g. “Westfield St Lukes” is known as “St Lukes mall” colloquially by pretty much everyone.

Kiwi here. We have malls and shopping centers, but only mall Santas

It either happens, or it doesn’t, or the chances are not equal.

That’s 50/50/50 or 1 in 3.

Arguably “we can just put it in docker, and create an auto scaling microservice with a load balancer, behind a CDN for avg request latency” fits this group too. The hoops I have to jump through to get a good user experience on top of our shitty PHP backend are unreal

No picture of what it actually looks like?

It would be smooth as butter with a lightweight desktop (probably not KDE). I suggest Linux Mint XFCE edition