There are plenty of cross platform frameworks and libraries that don’t involve web tech

I still prefer perl over either tbh

Finally. This was what was keeping me from using ntfs on Linux

1. I like having the upstream versions of software instead of it being patched by package maintainers.
2. I like having up to date software. It means that issue trackers for software I use are relevant
3. Doing distro upgrades when they end support never works gracefully and i have to completely reinstall. I’d rather just use a rolling release which in practice works and is supported indefinitely
4. I do like bleeding edge updates. For wine for instance

In the 90s, a lot of c++ and Java code was giant trees of inheritance and everyone always talked about design like all real code fit neatly into hierarchies like the examples about animals and whatnot. There are always fashionable ways to overengineer and for a time it was OOP abuse, and the sane people that had to live through it honestly have some trauma over it and difficulty explaining just how bad it was because newer people have never seen the insanity.

Information good. Hiding information bad. Nefarious intentions.

Illusion of Gaia on SNES maybe?

Or you look on fdroid…

To be fair, dual booting is not really for people that aren’t very tech savvy. Just thinking about trying to explain partitions to some people I know is giving me a headache

People like to recommend immutable distros like bazzite because in theory they’re much harder to break, but in reality they are a niche community and are nowhere ready for primetime for casual users

guess we’ll have to see how this affects young / beginner programmers going forward

From what I’ve seen so far, it’s not looking good…

Do you think RAM is the only thing that factors into performance?..

It’s actually less trouble. Back when i used ubuntu based distros I ended up using the arch wiki anyway, and I never successfully upgraded from one ubuntu LTS to the next without problems anyway, so I figured why not try the distro that doesn’t have upgrades and has amazing docs. It’s much more stable.

Ritual sacrifice to the penguin god

After work is exercise, which you need anyway, but it also shakes off the doldrums and provides a clean break between work and evening

I use laptop trackpads with my thumb all the time

Sometimes it feels like a portion of the community views complexity as a badge of honour

Adding GUI tools adds complexity

continues playing trails games in the corner

The next hype lined up is quantum

Low code AI will reduce programming jobs a lot, it’s madness to deny it.