Buddy, they literally do not know that choice exists

Yeah, because people like this author keep repeating it.

The Linux community has a reputation for being filled with condescending dickheads

Yet another annoying myth. Look, I am saying it with a bit of vitrol here, but its basically to the universe as the author (as far as I know) isn’t here.

Could I be a bit nicer? I suppose, but they were so wrong, and using strong words like “exhausting” to describe a practice they don’t even have to do is annoying. Read what they wrote, they said all admin tasks are command line. Nonsense of course. If they had said, I started out this way, or it was what I had learned, with just a tiny bit of journalistic effort they would know there are a variety of ways.

I have gone back and read forums, from 10 to 15 years ago, just because I keep hearing: linux is so condescending and rude, and it wasn’t the way I remembered it, so I went to see. And guess what? Nothing but nice and friendly people trying to help each other.

It gets old fast.

Gatekeeping, I hate that word. So useless. In this scenario the author is gate keeping saying all the linux system management is the command line. Its “exhausting”. Well bullshit. Let me say it again: BULLSHIT.

It is perpetuating a myth. This is not true. They are gatekeeping the users who don’t want to because they are saying it has to be this way.

Look, I like the command line, I get why sharing information is so much easier by providing a command rather than a wall of screen shots.

Yet at the same time, my travel laptop over here, two years in, has never had to have “system administration” and package installation from a command line. Depending on the distro it simply is not necessary.

The user has choice.

KDE as well. It is astounding how easy it is to use a modern KDE distro: everything has tips and hints get you to the setting you want. Even mounting shares is just click and mount.

I really take issue with the author suggesting that you need to. You do not need to, and it is a myth that needs to go away. Particularly when they said it was “exhausting” installing applications. Linux is miles ahead on that front: you look through a list of what you like, or search for them, and click on the ones you want.

Also for system management, there is no need for the terminal either and the author says “It’s an unavoidable part of the Linux experience”. That one in particular really doesn’t sit well with me.

Now can you? Yes. Should you? Also yes, because it is the easiest way to convey and execute an idea. But you do not have to.

And they fail to mention that windows does this too, for almost every task for system maintenance is done this way: press run+r, now type “whatever -command”.

Anyways a moderately mainstream article and they are going to scare people away over something they did not need to do. Which after a year you would think they would have figured that out.

Seems like someone posted a update or extension or something for Freecad that changed the interface and made it more familiar. I don’t mind it the way it is, but apparently others like the change. Might be worth searching for.

My first night on Linux was rough. Getting all my apps installed and set up was exhausting, especially because I had no experience using the command line. For those who haven’t stared into the dark void of a Linux terminal before, it’s where most system management happens — installing apps, running updates, and the like. It’s an unavoidable part of the Linux experience

Bullshit. And fuck you for propagating perpetuating this notion, yet again.

Edit: fixed to the correct word.

Live music mostly, both commercially released and fan traded. Smaller bands, out if print records, a ton of open and free music that they don’t bother with, music in dispute over royalties and so on.

Almost every time I have looked they simply don’t have a lot of music I am looking for.

And all the mainstream stuff they do carry is literally everywhere else for free anyways.

Never used Spotify, so nothing changed. They barely have anything I listen to anyways, so I guess that’s why. There is so much music out there…

As they should.

On the other hand, if AI music was any good why would I go to bandcamp for it?

Yep.

Before they were in best buy, people just printed their own. So you could make one, lots of plans online.

The world record for fastest drone just got broken yesterday, and it was a fully 3d printed drone.

Hwȳ woldest þū hit earfoðlicor macian þæt wē mid ōðrum sprecen?

Because it is fucking stupid on a forum. Go do it with your friends for laughs.

I don’t know. Why any one would communicate and purposely be annoying is beyond me. Basically they are using the thorn from old english. But I find it annoying to read, and basically a fuck you to anyone wanting to interact. So who knows, maybe they are just an asshole.

Everything to do with itch.io because their launcher and storefront is garbage.

Isn’t this the truth.

Thanks for kindly responding, I find it interesting.

I really wish you would stop. I just won’t take you seriously while you continue to play that stupid game.

Posting on linked in… Almost didn’t read it. Complains about one thing while putting it on a walled garden data harvesting Microsoft tool.

Wtf.

So true. Even if a video is real, a simple meme or still image and post to Facebook is all that is necessary to fool people.

Gotta say that is organized.

Curious about bookmarking video games. Like games online? Guides? How would that work? You can self host collections, so why the book mark?

Same with Manga, why not self host your own library?

Seems like you are making a lot of work for a browser when the tools to do it much easier are already there.

6500 bookmarks? Do you use then like I do? Add a bookmark. Never look in bookmarks.

Assuming you do use them, how often do you visit 6500 websites? Seems like searching in general would be easier than searching through your bookmarks.

Do you run a script now and then to see if the site still exists?

Finally I cant tell you how curious I am what you bookmark for 6500 websites. Consider exporting them?

So frustrating to be around people that I consider smart and intelligent in general see things like floods and storms and say: “well that’s weather for you, it always does that”. With zero interest or concern about the global warming.

One of them is an engineer, and he said there is no way of knowing what effect humans can have on the planet. I said bullshit. You can do the math, we have computers, we know about CO’s effectiveness in creating a heat blanket, we know how much CO has been put into the air, so you can do the work and get a rough idea. It isn’t that hard, start small, scale up.

He says, but volcanoes do far more. Like where the fuck did he hear that? We diverged from the average volcanic amount around 1875 and are at about 40 times as much. WE KNOW THAT DATA!

He continues making up shit… Like does he not have any damn natural curiosity? This is not some hidden mysterious thing here.

Sorry I had to rant. Between the smart people burying their head in the sand, and the richest people caring about nothing but profits, I feel pretty doomed.