Chris Werner Rau

@Philfreeze96 @TheGingerBill But why would you? I an ideal world I can just use a single package manager for everything. Which I currently do, paru (or yay or another aur wrapper)

@TheGingerBill The real issue is the lack of standardization. In an ideal work you should be able to use ten different package manager on the same system and 99% of things would just kinda work.

Another reason to dislike package managers.

@nixcraft parallel 👌

Tell me, what's the one Linux/Unix command you're kicking yourself for not learning sooner?

@Shedletsky @badgraphix @fabiooreilly Not YouTube, YouTube Music

@badgraphix @fabiooreilly tbh, Spotify is a much better experience for the listener. YouTube does and always has sucked for music.

Kinda insane how badly YouTube missed the boat on music streaming by refusing to make something that would play on phones with the screen turned off for 10+ years, and now Spotify has like 90% of that market

@NetMelc @Juicewag @JakeLandauTO @fabiooreilly Those are rookie numbers 😉

@Juicewag @JakeLandauTO @fabiooreilly I'm 24 not not planning on stopping listening to YouTube when I turn 25 🤣. This is the same for about 90% of friends my age. It's my only form of entertainment, I do not watch Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, AppleTV or regular cable TV at all.

@nixcraft Go I guess there are worse ones, but this one pains me everyday I'm using it.

If you could delete one programming language permanently, which one would you delete? 🤔

@realangrypom @AdamRackis I think it's more like this; you're a doctor and you hire another (expensive) doctor for that when you could've easily drawn the blood "for free" yourself and just paid the equipment. Of course you can do that, and if you charge enough or just make less profit it's "ok I guess"

@AdamRackis True. Unless you’re devops by choice, software engineers don’t do this shit. It’s not their skill set. It’s like asking the doctor to draw blood. I’m sure they could figure it out, but you really don’t want them doing it anyway.

That Levels interview made people crazy If you're 18 and trying to be a software dev by all means sign up for Vercel's free plan and deploy your stuff there I'm not saying *don't* learn to be a Linux sysadmin, but it's unlikely those skills will land you your first dev job ime

@matthewjablack @dhh How do you "waste time on package management"? My package manager saves me time everyday Downloading stuff, maybe even compiling some things by hand, as you'd need to do on MacOS or Windows, is the real time killer

@dhh If your average dev installed Linux, they would waste a substantial amount of their time on package management. Most devs should use Mac if they value their time. If you want to run a server, get a cheap ThinkPad and put Linux on it.

If more developers ran Linux on their desktop, maybe they wouldn't be so petrified of running a server by themselves. We are unlearning the basics of the Internet at an alarming rate.

@Wolvendom6 @DoctorWarface @Pirat_Nation Have you used Linux in the past 10 years or so? It most definitely is a general purpose OS, just like Windows or MacOS I do everything on Linux be it working or gaming. The only stuff not working is software exclusively developed for Windows, like bad anticheat for some games

@Simeon45912493 @AruruNadja @DoctorWarface @Pirat_Nation Amazingly, most, if not all, Linux software is available for all Linux distros So the aforementioned office software is available and the same on mint as it is on Ubuntu or arch 👍

@AruruNadja @DoctorWarface @Pirat_Nation Mint was very accessible and had free alternatives to Microsoft software(like office) which worked great. At least better than Office online that you are forced to use if you dont pay

@PendulumRiding @FrankDeScushin @threadreaderapp unroll

@FrankDeScushin thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/?m=1

Immigrants or people with at least one immigrant parent commit approximately 90% of gun-related murders and attempted murders in Sweden. In 2022, Swedes abruptly voted Right recognizing immigrants aren't just killing each other, they're killing Sweden. Will Europe follow? 🧵

@ThePrimeagen Have you seen go? In kotlin copilot doesn't really help that much, but in go it's basically needed with so much boilerplate that you need to write

people keep talking about boiler plate code and why copilot is amazing... are y'all programming Java 1.5?

@WillFaucherVFX @wengel_ca Of course, if you're not willing to invest a little bit of time and learn something new, then yes, it may be a net loss of time at some point But if you're a curious person, willing to learn and figure some stuff out it's so very much worth it, fiscally speaking; time is money 😉

@WillFaucherVFX @wengel_ca That's the fallacy, people think Linux is a net loss of time. If you are able to use Linux and are willing to invest *some* time, it's definitely a net win of time. I can't even put into numbers how much time I save every day by using Linux as opposed to mac/Windows

It boggles my mind how terrible Windows explorer search is. I have an app that I know is installed. Tap windows key, type in app. No results except for a web page. It’s 2024. How is searching for LOCAL FILES this terrible.

@OxideTwinjet @wengel_ca @WillFaucherVFX Depends on your use case, as with mac vs Windows I exclusively use Linux to - Play games; proton - no anti-cheat - remote access servers; ssh - (I think I successfully tried an android emulator at some point 🤔) - have a discrete nvidia graphics card everything works 🤷‍♂️

@wengel_ca @WillFaucherVFX Except if... - you play games - your remote access for work doesn't support it - you need an android emulator - you have a discrete graphics card Don't get me wrong, I love Pop! Linux but Linux isn't a desktop solution for the general population.

@tg97643128 @QuinnyPig I do 😍 I very often say that I love it, it makes my life so much easier 😊 So many automation options 😍

It's extremely important that logs never be written to a plaintext file--instead, they should go to a special format that requires a custom binary to read because the systemd author hates everything about Unix.

@_Mark_Atwood @QuinnyPig Super easy to write services that just work, no need to manage PIDs, easy to construct dependent targets Really easy to automate a lot of stuff, see github.com/cwrau/linux-co… I just fricking love systemd 😍

@AdamRackis If a so-called "engineer" stops using, or doesn't start using, Linux "because things keep breaking" then they're definitely not hired. If they can't get that simple thing to run then I wouldn't trust them with real work. The only valid point is "I need \$OS specific software"

The one person I know who actually uses Linux on the desktop is a brilliant Senior Staff Engineer. Last time I saw him I said something like “ayyy still using Linux eh?” — he sighed and said “yeah but things keep breaking and I’m sick of it. I’m about to give up and get a Mac” 😂

@boykissinger @wyoham @evacide Sounds like you did a partial update?

@DivineContext @kochka22 @Nedrick_NA @dhh - pamac with my guidance. Maybe in the future the well known keyring update. But these problems are easy to fix by telling her what to type, while the rest was hours of research and testing, locally, without any solution in sight.

@DivineContext @kochka22 @Nedrick_NA @dhh - missing. I figure it out still. A year later the same thing happens, this time for a major upgrade and all the repos don't exist anymore. I give up and just install arch. Runs perfectly since a couple of years now. Biggest problem was that she had to manually update paru and -

Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux right now. That "how did I not know it was this good" sensation. I felt the same way about the Mac back in 2001. And Ruby in 2003. And company chat with Campfire in 2005. And, fast forward, now with #nobuild, Hotwire, and even exiting the cloud. When I discover a path that seems like a clear shortcut, it doesn't really matter if it's poorly paved at first. As long as it appears to take us somewhere better, laying the bricks and clearing the brush is incidental. It's about seeing that end state. Where what's right in front of us now, rough and unpolished as it may be, can be transformed, if we put in the effort, that inspires me to keep going. Yes, half the fun is the adventure. We should always be pushing toward new horizons, even if some of them inevitably will end up in dead ends. But the other half is watching things genuinely compound for the better. Take web development. It's incredible how much conceptual complexity we've been able to compress in the last decade, and particularly in the last half of a decade. It wasn't just one thing, it was all the things. It was browsers getting better, mobile CPUs getting faster, #nobuild becoming possible, Hotwire showing an alternate route. Each substantial, yes, but together epoch altering. A new dawn. Following such a sense of wanderlust requires a certain disagreeableness. Even arrogance. A steadfast belief that it's possible that you might actually have found a better way. Whether that turns out to be true or not. You have to believe that it's possible. That the market place of ideas isn't perfectly efficient or perfectly rational. That it hasn't priced it all in, and that you could invest in upcoming concepts for an intellectual profit. You're never going to be right about everything, but a life spent without taking at least a few bets on being early on an idea is one not lived to the fullest. Dare a little. Roll the dice every now and then. Come along for an adventure whether its heads or tails.