I have a hard time giving a go to my friends who still use X every time they post X I vindictively snap back

they literally don’t see anything wrong with it and it pisses me off

I can’t even fake a smile, I’ve genuinely have thought about getting a mirror on my desk so I can regularly practice

Non-foss users when they type “<app> without garbage features” into a search engine::

Ah shit. Here we go again

actually what they say is “I live here meow”

because explicitly declaring types can be redundant, if the compiler knows a lot of the times you should also know

also because some types are extremely cursed: see std views/ranges

Surprised at how much my parents hated on me for slacking when now as an adult all I wish I could do was slack more.

I specifically said this advice because dual booting windows with Linux is a terrible idea.

Although you are right, if you USB read/write is slow it will be a sluggish experience.

You should just test run it from a bootable usb.

Install steam. Mount your NTFS drive which contains your windows games. If you have sims on steam use steam. If not take a look at lutris before doing any of the above.

Your experiment ends when you’ve tested all games you want to play.

Now: You cannot use NTFS (windows) drive for games, although you did it in the experiment long extended usage is discouraged.

So you will need to find a way to transfer your games to a different formatted drive. (ext4, btrfs for example)

If you don’t need that advice you will eventually run into frustrating issues.

"grug try watch patiently as cut points emerge from code and slowly refactor, with code base taking shape over time along with experience. no hard/ fast rule for this: grug know cut point when grug see cut point, just take time to build skill in seeing, patience

sometimes grug go too early and get abstractions wrong, so grug bias towards waiting

big brain developers often not like this at all and invent many abstractions start of project

grug tempted to reach for club and yell “big brain no maintain code! big brain move on next architecture committee leave code for grug deal with!”

https://grugbrain.dev/

Honestly, if they want to go full enterprise at least use the javabeanfactoryfactoryfactory pattern

I have nothing to add except: man’s really wrote like 7 classes to just have 1 function each

Impossible

Before I knew how to code I thought you could just start typing away at any point and get stuff done, nope.

Need thing parser ? Internet. What about writing tests ? Internet, Need to write any web application ever ? Unless you’re using vanilla technology…nope, need internet.

First step of any project is literally looking at which open source libraries you’d need in the first place.

Even if you wanted to code raw logic for coding interview questions. Where would you get them without internet ?

My piece of advice if you have 2 drives, and this goes for any OS not just Linux.

1. drive for your OS
2. drive purely for storage. never store anything in the 1 drive except for user installed programs or updates.

that way you can wipe the first drive whenever you run into anything or you want to change anything without being worried about losing data

make sure your browser is using a password manager so stored passwords don’t vanish

Yeah. it’s dogshit but they certainly have the capacity to improve. it’s clear where their priorities are: milk users for profit

I think Windows could be a far better OS than Linux if Microsoft gave a single shit. Instead they want to add AI and recall and various invasive updates.

The only thing windows has going is the market share.

Unpopular opinion maybe but I like Lemmy and lemmy users and I’m glad that we’re a bit different from Reddit. At least in my experience it feels a bit different.

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Reductionism when “it isn’t murder I just deleted your row from the national health government database”

A mistake people make very often is to conflate the distro with a “look” or “theme” to the UI, and it’s not their fault.

Distros bundle a desktop environment which contains many applications used to navigate the computer graphically with things like “file managers” such as Windows explorer for example.

A DE can bundle lots of programs or very few and these programs differ in looks and functionality, not only that but these programs can be installed / uninstalled regardless of what distro you’re using.

In short: distro doesn’t affect DE but must distros bundle a DE based on things like philosophy, functionality or maybe just looks.

There are many DEs which is why I suggested installing CachyOS as part of the installation shows you options, you can try them out rewipe the drive, try out another one in less than 3 minutes. So it’s the perfect sandbox environment to try new things. I guess you can use VMs as well, not sure how well cachyos works on VM.

As a personal note on DEs when I first used Linux about 5 years ago I used KDE plasma because I thought it was the most windows-like. But I had many issues with KDE, chances are if you use your search engine you’ll see similar complaints about it which I likely share.

5 years in the future my favourite DE is basically using Sway and a file manager like Nautilus. Sway has Swaybar as a status bar and that’s really all I need.

Not sure if Sway counts as a DE though, I think it’s a window manager first and foremost.